Father, we thank you for your love and mercy.

We thank you, O God, for what you have done for us.

Thank you for what we have heard, what we have seen, what we have felt.

Thank you for making your presence known to us.

And God, I pray in the name of your son

that one more time you will arrest our attention.

I pray that you'll give us the extraordinary ability

to concentrate and not miss anything

that you have to say to us.

Lord, we pray in the name of your son

that you will transform us and make us different. Give us an insatiable appetite, a passion for Jesus,

for the beauty of our Savior. Mark us and brand us, we pray. Oh God, time is short. We don't own the

clock nor the calendar.

All we have is right now.

And may we give ourselves completely to our blessed Savior who loved us, gave himself for us, and rose again.

We love you, Lord Jesus.

In Jesus' name, amen.

I have been fighting the tears back ever since we started last night, thinking of Levi and how

he kicked this off, and then Jackie this morning, and then my friend Ben a few moments ago,

and what God has been doing in between.

And you'll forgive me, I've got a little bit of mileage on me,

and I'm a grandfather, and to see this generation with their arms held up, praising and

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