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We hope you enjoy the message. And I was several years ago.

Several years ago I was in Israel

and I took a day trip to the Dead Sea and I was there

with my cousin and we were just sitting there and watching people in the Dead Sea and

if you don't know much about the Dead Sea, what you need to know is it's about nine times

saltier than the ocean.

And so due to its high salt content, it's pretty hard for things to live in the Dead Sea. It's pretty natural for things to float in the Dead Sea

because that's what dead things do when they spend any amount of time in the Dead Sea.

So you can actually look out at people who are alive laying back on the

water of the dead sea and they just float because that's what things do it's like

the sea knows if you hang out here long enough you going to be dead so you can go ahead and pretend like what you will be like if you hang out here for too long.

And so we were just looking out at people, we were people watching, and they were doing the whole floating thing

but then the second thing that people love to do at the Dead Sea is they love to pick up

mud off of the bottom of the dead sea floor and they love to cake their bodies in the mud.

And so people will spend time just kind of covering their bodies and then they will make a

short walk up to these freshwater showers and clean up because I think it's therapeutic

for the skin.

And so my cousin and I on this particular day were just looking out at this group of people

caking themselves in the mud of the Dead Sea and man they were having the time

of their lives, they were laughing, they were high-fiving, they were pointing at each other,

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