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Hey, you can turn in your Bibles to Philippians chapter three if you'd like to flip ahead there,

Philippians chapter three. Hey, I want to let you know real quick that next week my dad is going to be back

in the pulpit. Yep, he's going to be back after a couple week hiatus. He's actually here today

wandering around somewhere. He sat in services and he's doing great. Thank you so much for praying for him. The surgery has really been a success. And so he's stoked. He's up and mobile and feeling good. So thank you again for your prayers for him. Well, Philippians chapter three. So recently I got a new surfboard from a friend of mine who's a shaper in Costa Mesa, and that's one of my favorite things to do.

I love getting a new surfboard. I don't know. I'm sure you're the same way. If you're like into bikes, you know, you love getting a new bicycle, or if you're a guitar guy, you love getting a nice new guitar, or if you're a girl, a new haircut, I don't know what girls like, but You get excited about something, something new, something fresh, something that's different, right?

And so one of my favorite things to do is go talk to the guy that's actually shaping it, know your local shaper, support your local shaper, right? And so I go down, I talk to this guy, and one of the things that's fun to do is just talk conceptually. What do you want? What do you want this surfboard to do? So usually the way it starts is you think of a specific wave that you want to surf it at. There's a certain wave

and you start talking about what you want this surfboard to do differently from other surfboards you have.

And then you talk about what you like about these other surfboards you have and how you

want to pull the best elements from them and apply it to this new surfboard, right? And sometimes, if you're lucky, you get a magic board. And the magic board is the board that does everything really well, right? So I got a new board recently. I got a 5-7 and I was talking with my buddy just about what I wanted it to do.

And as soon as he got it to me,

I'm eager to go surf the thing.

And so I go out and the conditions were terrible. It was like, you know, knee high. I can barely paddle into a wave. It's so small. And I just was really struggling with it. I got a couple waves where I was like, okay, I can tell it's doing some of the stuff that I wanted to.

Okay, that's a good sign. I just need to wait for some actual swell. Well, if you're a surfer and you live in Southern California, you know that this last week had a great, great run of swell. And so I was able to surf this board and actually see like, oh, cool, it actually came to life. Like it's doing the things that I wanted it to.

It's performing the way that I was expecting to.

It did some things that even the things that I wanted it to. It's performing the way

that I was expecting to. It did some things that even I forgot that it wanted to. So I'm just stoked, right? Dave, we were talking about this yesterday. Your board was doing the same thing. My father-in-law got a new board. And he was like, I didn't get to write it very good surf, but today I'm really stoked. This board's really working. I wrote this illustration before we talked about that. And so,

too funny, but it's talked about that. And so,

too funny, but it's a great feeling. And it brings you back to why you like surfing. It brings that throwback. Oh, dropping in, getting the rush down the face of the wave, and it carries the

momentum. And then you're able to fly down the line. And speed is so important in a good surfboard.

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