The best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change really low.

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

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Okay, today we are doing a fun question and answer episodes. Sometimes we do these. We'll keep this one on the short side.

You know, which is good because some of our episodes get really long and I understand they get really heavy because we're talking about really big, important stuff like low key.

If you listen to Relatable, you really know what's going on in the world, not every single news story because we're not necessarily a news show.

We stop and we pause and we talk about a story or a trend that's happening that may have been in headlines a couple weeks ago, but is especially pertinent to us right now as Christians and we talk about why we should think about this and how we should think about this and how we should approach it.

And we really try to peel back the layers on everything that's going on, not just telling you what's happening, but why what's happening matters.

Sometimes I think about that and like, wow, the guests we have and the stories that we talk about are really, really important.

If I do say so myself, I don't think that's patting myself on the back. It takes a whole village to do this whole thing.

And plus, as I like to say, you guys really are the executive producers. And so you guys help me what you want to talk about.

So we're all in this. We're all in this together, but I'm just I'm just thankful and I'm proud of relatable for the stories that we give, but we can't do that every single day because we kind of get burnt out on it, which is why we do strictly theological episodes.

Sometimes we do some more like evergreen episodes and then we do these fun Q&A episodes.

We will talk about serious stuff. I am getting asked serious questions, as I always am, but there's some fun stuff too. And there's some some lighter stuff that's not quite so topical and so news heavy or so even theologically heavy.

And so I'm going to go through as many questions as I can sometimes I get carried away and I take too long and answer the question.

I'm going to try not to do that. I'm going to try not to do that today. One of the reasons also though we are not doing a news episode today is because I'm traveling.

Yesterday I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan speaking to some high school students. So I'm traveling today. I recorded this last week as you're listening to it. It'll be last week.

But then we'll be back tomorrow with all the new and news stuff. All right. First question. I'm going to answer. Is it biblical to pray before meals? I think that's a great question.

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