Today is the 18th day of May.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian. I am standing here looking out over this vista.

Can you see it?

I mean with my eyes, I'm looking out over the rolling hills of Tennessee but can you see it it's it's the

week out in front of us we're standing at the precipice it's a brand new shiny sparkly

week it's a story to tell and we're going to. We don't really have a choice.

We're going to. Our thoughts, our words, our choices, our actions. They're going to. They're going to tell the story of this week.

It's nice to be here together, kind of out in front of it.

Obviously, there are things that are coming in from last week and last month and last year

and all the way back years and years that influence the way we do our thoughts and words

and choices and actions.

But we're just here taking a deep breath.

We can follow all the old scripts and old patterns,

or we can slow it down and cultivate wisdom from the experiences of our lives and live into this intentionally instead of reactively.

May we do that as we navigate the new week.

It's great to be here with you around the global campfire today.

Great to see you.

Great to be here.

This is a brand new week.

We're picking up where we left off, and that puts us in first Samuel, and there's,

ah, man, there's so much drama, as David's life is intertwined with King Saul, who really wants him dead.

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