Today is the 21st day of September. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today as we create a brand new, shiny, sparkly week. Another one of the 52 that we get to spend together. Another step forward,

another chance, another chance to grow, to improve upon where we've been and what we've

learned, our experiences, and to put wisdom into practice.

So here we are.

The threshold.

I'm walking into it together.

And we do this every week.

The week is going to happen.

We're going to happen to it or it's going to happen to us. And we're going to live

kind of proactively about making decisions in advance, kind of planning our reactions before they

happen, or we'll just react to everything and the chaos will ensue.

So we get the chance to choose.

We're out in front of it right now.

It was just yesterday.

Just yesterday we reached this point in the book of Galatians

where the fruit of the spirit is described.

It is the fruit of the spirit that we seek.

It is the fruit of the spirit that will make this week

much more remarkable than forgettable and so let's choose wisely with our thoughts

with our words because our words create realities we can lie and lead people into false realities. We can lie to ourselves and lead ourselves

into destruction. So may we do everything in a blanket of love this week?

And let's reflect when we get to the end of it on how that went for us versus what life

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