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Howdy, Pastor Mark Driscoll here, continuing our study in Ecclesiasties. A series title is Meaningless Live. Today is part six titled,

Drop your phone in the lake.

It's Ecclesiasties chapter 3,

verse 16 through chapter 4 verse 3.

And let me start by saying, life is filled with some unexpected moments of sudden

deep profound joy. I'll give you an example. I did not grow up in a boating family. We were working class poor. My dad was a drywaller. My mom stayed home with us five kids. We didn't have a boat didn't do any boating and then I got five kids and a few years ago a very nice family that lives on a lake and has a boat and a dock,

said, hey, we're going to be gone for a few weeks during the summer.

Would you guys want to use our place for your summer family vacation. Well that sounded

awesome. So that's exactly what we did and we showed up at their house and lo and behold

right alongside the house was a dock and tied to the dock was a ski boat and we quickly got some intertubes and I did not know much about boating so I had to get a boaters license and just ten generally I passed it I'm sure that

impresses you and it was very helpful to learn things such as you should not smoke while gassing up your boat.

Who knew? Just passing that along as a bit of a public service announcement. You're welcome. Nonetheless, passed my

boating exam online, took my family out to the house, filled up the

the inner tubes, little note for you dads, use the leaf blower, goes a lot faster,

and then I took my kids out on the lake and my kids I found out they love getting pulled on an inner tube at

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