All right. Well, welcome friends in the room, friends and four friends in Houston, El Paso,

Tulsa, Cedar Springs, wherever you are. Tune in in. We are continuing this series by

some virtue. I'm going to start with a story that will give us some direction before we're going

a few years ago at a something we call staff prayer. Once a week our staff at Watermark, a couple

hundred of us get together and meet Tuesdays and it's usually almost exclusively staff and every

once in a while so and who has a relationship with a member on staff will get invited to be a part

of it. And so there was a guy who was a missionary in Russia who had been there for the last eight

years. He was formerly in Dallas, had some connections and relationships with people on our staff

and he was back visiting and so he came and joined us for staff prayer. And so we're sitting around

in this circle and he's sharing about what God is up to in Russia and then there was a chance for

just kind of like a conversation that took place with him and one person asked him, hey you haven't

been here in eight years from in Dallas, what has changed? And I'll never forget his answer

because he like immediately had an answer he said, oh all the storage units are all the storage

facilities and our response was a lot like your response. All the storage facilities, we

can talk about all the storage facilities, yeah all the storage facilities they're everywhere,

these little like facilities where you store stuff and where you put your stuff like to pop

it up they're exploding and we all almost as a staff everyone that was there that day,

we'll laugh about it now because we all had the same experience, what are you talking about?

And then we left and we would go drive around and then it was like there are storage units

everywhere around here. This is, I mean you drive up 75, 635, I'm certain it's the same and for

worth and in Houston and and they really are as he just said, men Americans have so much stuff

that they are running out of places to even put it in their house. Most people are concerned about

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