Today is the 22nd day of June.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Vival.

Welcome to a brand new, shiny, sparkly week.

And it's kind of our custom around here to acknowledge that it helps us.

We can look out over it now.

It will end because we can only go forward and when we get to the end of this week, we can look back, out with regret, or we can look back and know that we intentionally did did the very very best that we could in our work

in our faith in our relationships and all our thoughts and all our words and all our thoughts, and all our words, and all our choices,

and in all of the actions that we took as a result of those things.

So here we are. It's a vista.

My vista is over the rolling hills of Tennessee.

Yours is wherever you may be on this beautiful planet.

All of ours this year around the global campfire as we launch into a new week.

So it's a new week, but we will certainly pick up exactly where we left off.

We're not leaving out anything in the Bible.

We're going through all of it together.

We'll read from the new international version this week.

Second Kings, chapter 3, verse 1 through 4, verse 17 today.

Joram, son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria in the 18th year of Jehochefat, king of Judah.

And he reigned 12 years.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father and mother had done.

He got rid of the sacred stone of Bale that his father had made.

Nevertheless, he clung to the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, which she had caused Israel

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