Today is the 27th day of January.

Welcome back. Welcome around the global campfire today.

Nice and chilly.

Just cozy here. Come on in.

There's room for everyone here.

Just leave all those burdens out of the circle.

Leave all that stuff that's going on.

I mean, it's not going anywhere.

It might.

I mean, perspective might shift, but it's not, you know, I mean, we have permission to come in and give ourselves a time to breathe, just a break for a second, a safe place and a waste is here together.

Just let the stories of the Bible unfold before us and find our own stories in the unfolding of those stories.

And let the perspective come into us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We have nothing to fear here inside the circle.

And so let's just exhale.

Let's just exhale. Let's just exhale.

Center ourselves.

No matter what's going on, it can wait a minute.

We'll gain a lot more out of just giving ourselves permission to rest here and let God speak through his word. So I'm glad that we're here.

Glad that we were where we are. We are here in the book of Exodus at this point. And we've met

Moses. And Moses, as an interesting story, he has been commanded to go back to a place that he's

wanted for murder. That's Egypt. And I just go back and kind of sneak in underground. He's

going to demand the freedom of the entire Hebrew population. That is a very big deal. These are the slaves of Egypt.

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