Today is the ninth day of December. Welcome.

Welcome back around the global campfire. I am Brian.

It is great to be here with you today.

It is a privilege, and I am grateful to be here with you today as we continue to navigate our way.

It's like we've been on this voyage, right?

Like we set sail for the 1st of January.

And it takes like a week to get kind of moved in into the rhythm and maybe even a month to kind of just get our bearings.

And all of a sudden the Bible is like so dynamic as it begins.

So much to think about that before you know it, we look back out, back towards shore,

back toward where we launched from and we can't see land anymore.

And we're out in the deep. And we spend all these months sailing through this year

out in the deep. And we get here now. And off in the distance, there's this faint, like faint

outline of land.

Like, we're coming in.

We're not there.

It's like a long ways off still, but we can see it.

It's not like we're out in the open sea anymore.

We can see the end of the year.

We can see it coming. And year. We can see it coming.

And that's kind of where we are.

And I mean, the way that this works

is that it never ends.

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