Welcome back to Blessed August spiraling. We are learning how the chaotic search for significance

can lead to joy through life's shifting seasons. We're so glad to have you at Fresh Life Church,

our partner church is on the open network to everybody watching or listening in online.

We're so glad you're here. So glad you're here. Especially if you've had to experience the pain of grief in your life.

And that's something we find in scripture. Isaiah chapter 6, verse 1. Look what Isaiah the prophet says.

Isaiah is widely regarded as the greatest prophet in the Old Testament for sure, maybe in the whole Bible.

His 66 books are so powerful. And yet,

notice the loss that he begins his ministry with. It says in verse one of Isaiah 6,

in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up,

and the train of his robe filled the temple. This is the

beginning of Isaiah's ministry. His ministry began with loss. It began with grief. It began with

difficulty. Now there's so much that I've wanted to convey that I wanted as I began the series to pack into these messages.

And just to take 200 plus pages and condense it into just a couple messages, I just was so frustrated.

Because I thought, man, there's so much that I want to say to you that I can't.

And then God said, Levi, that's why I had you write the book.

So those who read the messages and want more can, of course, get it. And then God said, Levi, that's why I had you write the book. So those who hear the messages

and want more can, of course get it. And we put on the cover of the book intentionally a tornado.

The tornado is one of nature's most destructive symbols. And yet our tornado is built with wildflowers,

conveying the idea that there can be beauty in the nosedive.

There can be unexpected blessing in difficulty. And is that not what Isaiah the prophet says?

He starts with death. In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, and Uzziah was a good king.

He says, the death of

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