Today is the 14th day of May.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian.

It is wonderful to be here with you today around the Global Campfire.

As we reach the threshold and step into a brand new week together.

And as we so often say, we just mark the time.

This is the beginning of the week.

And the week is a vista out in front of us and we must walk through.

And what it's going to look like and how we're going to experience it will be made up of

all of the decisions that we make and all of the words that we say and all of the actions

that we take.

That is how we will write the story of our lives upon this week.

So coming around the Global Campfire each and every day and allowing the scriptures

to be a part of that decision making process, a part of the things that we're going to

form and say, a part of the actions that we're going to take.

What a gift.

And what a gift it is to be here together.

Today is also Mother's Day here in the United States.

I know celebrating mothers is a tradition throughout the world and that happens on different

days in different regions.

But here today we celebrate mothers.

And so I certainly have a great amount of gratitude to my mom who has departed and gone

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