Wow, it's so good to be here with you guys.

What an honor to be here at Gateway,

to be invited by Pastor Robert.

We are so grateful that God decided to not let you go home.

I know you were ready, but the world needs you,

so we're glad you're still here.

I made a decision in 2018 that changed my life. I don't know if you've ever made a decision

from which you knew your life was forever changed. But last August on my 60th birthday I bought a fully

electric car. Changed my life. Every time I go by a gas station I think to myself, I'm free from the man.

I know I'm in Texas. I'm in very, very fragile territory here, but you're never getting one more dime for me.

But I didn't really know how to work it because it's a lot like my iPhone which my kids run for me and

and so we set up this little charging station in our garage.

And I was really nervous about running out of juice.

Because if you're running out of gas,

you just pull over to a gas station.

But what do you do if your battery is dying?

So every time I went out with my car, I would recharge it.

It didn't matter if I went a half a block away.

I'd go get coffee, come back, charge. Go to our church mosaic, come back

charge, run the grocery store, come back charge. Until finally my car actually started reprimanding me. It said stop

charging me. So you're going to give the battery a false memory if you do not allow the battery to run empty.

And it was so counterintuitive that I'm going to kill the battery if I don't kill the battery.

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