Today is the second day of December.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Welcome back. How are you?

Welcome back to the global campfire where there is room for everyone.

No matter what we are coming into or what we are coming out of as this safe place for us here

to warm ourselves and to find comforts and rootedness and the scriptures together and community

so today as always like a commemorative day it's my and the scriptures together and community.

So today, as always, like a commemorative day,

it's my dad's, it would have been, it is, I guess,

my dad's birthday.

And obviously, wouldn't be, I wouldn't be here anyway doing this or not for him and his legacy

and uh teaching me so much he did not he did not live a long life so I have exceeded him actually

he's been gone 25 years now, but

I don't know.

Any of you who have lost

those that you loved, you know,

that maybe the ache

goes away and everything, but

the memory and the love doesn't.

So, thankful, grateful, which is something I'm trying to practice every day of this 20th year and beyond.

So grateful today to be here with you and to have that memory. So let us, let us dive

into the territory that is before us, the next step forward for today, which does indeed lead

us right to the exact place that we left off, and that is in the

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