Today is the 12th day of April. Welcome. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. And it's always

fantastic to be here with you today, especially here at the beginning, the beginning of a brand new, shiny, sparkly week.

And so, well, we do it every shiny sparkly new week we gather together face out there look at those hills look at all those trees trees uh look at at the lake out there, look at whatever, the desert

out there, just look out there. That is the week to come. It is not here yet. It's going to be

written moment by moments. We're stepping into it, and we have enormous control, an enormous power to create.

We are made in the image of God, who is a creator. We have enormous power to create this week. And we will use that power

to create this week. We might not be self-aware. We may be deflecting. we may be blaming everyone else for creating our week, but we are creating our week.

And that's happening with our thoughts.

And then our words.

And then our choices.

And then our actions.

There are side effects to all of these.

Like there are repercussions to all of these.

And that doesn't mean repercussion in a negative way necessarily.

There are positive repercussions for the ways that we handle

ourselves and then there are consequences and negative repercussions for the choices that we

make and the actions that we take because of them.

So, better to kind of think about what Shalom, what peace, what order from chaos might be like this week, and stay away from things that are not safe,

things that are risky,

things that are inappropriate,

things that are going nowhere,

things that are not real,

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