Hey, everybody. Welcome to You're Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo. That's me. I'm Father John. I'm the executive director at Acts 29.

We talk about anything and everything having to do with transformation in the church. I'm here, as always, with my co-labor in the vineyard and my dear sister, Mary Gilfoyle.

Mary, how you doing today?

I'm good, Father John, how about yourself?

You look rested, refreshed and ready to go.

It's amazing what sleep can do for the body and the mind.

Yeah, we've been on the road a lot, so it's kind of nice to unpack for a few days, isn't it?

Praise be Jesus.

But it's all glorious. So I'm excited about this podcast episode.

What's our title today?

So our topic today is history isn't a series of random events, no matter how it seems.

Because it sure seems like some of the things we're reading about right now in the country, in the world, in the church.

It's like, is any of this getting woven together by

anybody or is this just a bunch of, like you said, random events? But in fact, there is an author

of history, isn't there? Amen, there is. So I pray this will be encouraging to those of us who are

wondering how does anything fit together right now.

So how about we pray first, shall we?

Sounds great.

All right.

In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Well, we just thank you for the reality that you are, in fact, the author of the drama

that is history and that it's moving somewhere, not randomly, not blindly, not because some unknown fate is guiding

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