Today is the second day of December.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian.

It is fantastic to be here with you today.

Today would have been my, well it is my dad's birthday.

He is no longer with us.

Today would have been his 80th.

He only made it to his 58th birthday.

And so he is shockingly missed on some days and this being one of them since his birthday

and I am thinking about him.

And I can still hear his voice in my head.

It has been a long, long time since we have had a conversation.

I am a very, very different person than the last time I got to talk to him.

But it is funny.

And those of you who lost a parent and loved them very, very much, and you can walk with

a limp after you lose them and I have lost both of my parents and that has been really

hard to feel like an orphan on some days.

It is definitely grief is an interesting thing how it sneaks up on you even after you

have been doing well for a while.

But I can hear so many other things that my father taught me.

And that he showed me and one of the things that he showed me was a love for the scriptures.

Even though I wasn't paying all that much attention, it was sinking in and I do indeed love

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