Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

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Hello and good morning. I am coming to you today from Louisville, Kentucky. I'm set up here in my

hotel room. I've got the laptop going, the microphone. I brought a little makeshift stand.

And I just want to share a story with you from a couple of days ago on Saturday when I was

traveling from Lindale, Texas, where I live, to Louisville here to start the meeting this week.

There was an event that took place, small as it may seem, but it really opened my eyes to some things.

And ultimately, that's part of why our title is called Open Your Eyes.

We need to have a better awareness, you and me both.

We need to have a better awareness of the things that God is doing and how he may place opportunities and people and pathways right in front of us, right beside us.

And sometimes all it takes to figure out where to go or what to do is just look around,

have an open heart and enlightened eyes so that you might see the pathway that God has planned.

So here's how it went down. Saturday I was planning

on a couple of airplane flights. I was flying from Tyler, Texas to DFW in Dallas, and it was just

really stormy. Rainy day, massive storm covering several states. So there were delays that morning,

and finally, around two in the afternoon, we were able to get on a plane and sort of burst through this little hole in the clouds and get out of Tyler and fly to Dallas and that was no big deal landed there around four o'clock and my flight into Louisville was much later 830 so I knew I had a massive layover there but when I off the plane, I noticed that there was a flight at 430.

Just a few minutes later headed out.

So I asked the desk, and they said, yeah, we've got a seat for you.

And so I rushed across the terminal and hopped on that plane, and I was going to get there a lot earlier.

That was really cool.

It had already been kind of a stressful day.

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