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Came across an article the other day, how to get through the next four years.

There was an article in Christianity Today. How to get through the next four years.

That's interesting. I'll click.

Kind of a downer.

They're like, okay.

It's a downer because I don't want anyone just getting through life.

I'm reading a book right now on the Pilgrims.

Where is it?

Here it is. The Mayflower.

The Families, the Voyage and the Founding of America by Rebecca Frazier.

It's great.

Even on their two-month journey across the ocean, which is more miserable than anything we could ever imagine.

Cold, a hundred foot swells, constantly rocking, rotting food, rotting moldy clothes, you're always wet, chamber pots, women giving birth.

You believe all of this.

And when you're under the deck, the ceilings are five feet tall, stinks, just horrific for two months.

And as difficult as that was, they never lost hope.

They prayed. They sang. They weren't getting through. As miserable and off as it was,

they still weren't getting through. Whether it the two months of the the boat ride or even

the five more months that they had to wait on shore where half of them died they were singing

songs and praying and full of hope as miserable as it was and here's russell more like how are we

going to get through now we should be people of joy we're called to be

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