Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast. I want to take a quick second and tell you about my friends over at Operation Christmas Child.

This is an amazing opportunity to make a difference this Christmas with your small group, with your guys group, with your Bible study, or with your family.

Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan's purse and is the largest Christmas project of its kind, delivering shoeboxes packed with gifts and the message

of Jesus' love to kids all over the world. If you can imagine, every one of these shoeboxes

are going into a community and they are offering joy and hope and discipleship to these children.

This year, they're aiming to reach another 12 million kids, and that's how you can

become a part of it. During their National Collection Week, November 18th to 25th, you can drop off a

gift-filled shoebox at one of over their 4,700 locations nationwide, and these gifts will be sent

all over the world, again, to 12 million children all around the world.

And they will give these kids joy and hope and also set them up to be part of discipleship

relationships. You can also, if it's easier, go to samaritansperse.org forward slash OCC, and you can

build a box online. That's samaritansperse.org forward slash OCC. I highly encourage every dad's hired listener to get involved with this, again, with your small group,

your men's Bible study, your family, whatever it takes.

Go to samaritansperst.org forward slash OCC and get involved today. Yesterday I was sitting on the couch.

Just relaxing, enjoying a beautiful weekend afternoon after a long, hard week.

And our house is flooded, and we've had all kinds of crazy things happen this last week. And so I was just taking, you know, five minutes as you, oftentimes as a

dad, get very little time to just like sit down. And as a mom, very little time, just sit down and

try to relax. So I was just sitting there on the couch, kind of looking out the window and the sky was blue and it was sun was shining. It was just nice. I'm just sitting there looking

out the window and out of nowhere my three-year-old little daughter comes running up and all within

milliseconds yells out, I love you, daddy. And as she yells out, I love you, daddy. She jumps as far and as high and as wildly as she can and puts a knee right to my, yeah,

all the places you could imagine where you don't want a knee as a man.

And so I just, you know, shout out. I just scream in pain. And Layla, my wife,

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