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Hi and welcome back. I am so grateful you're back with me today. Okay, so I just left church and you're gonna have to

do a piece me on this one. I want to share a little bit about the service that I went to today at Blue Church, which is an incredible church.

You can totally catch it online. Rich Wilkerson, Jr. is an amazing pastor. So funny, so fun, such a great message.

And today was incredible about crisis with Christ and just such an incredible message of how to navigate really challenging times.

So I'm actually going through my own challenging time again, you know, everything with some perspective.

That was one of the things that Pastor Rich shared today was he was sharing one person lost three of their children in an accident.

And you know, you can't, I'm not minimizing what you're going through right now. What I'm going through, heartbreak, upset, fear, loss, illness.

You know, there's so many challenges in the world, but when you hear about horrific events like that, it really gives you such perspective and makes you feel so grateful for what you do have and pray for these people that are going through so much.

And the incredible thing about that story with a man that lost his three children is they were hit by a drunk driver, by the way.

And he offered forgiveness immediately the next day that's what he offered the person that hit and killed his children just such an incredible human and just a story about the good in people in horrific times.

It was really so sad and so beautiful.

Okay, so I don't know if you guys have this devotion book. It's called Jesus calling. I read this book every day. It's incredible, super helpful for me to keep me on the right path and to start my day off with a great message.

So if you don't have it, I highly suggest you order. I got mine on Amazon. And here was the message today. I am calling you to a life of thankfulness.

I want all your moments to be punctuated with Thanksgiving. The basis for your gratitude is my sovereignty. I just watched that word.

I am the creator and controller of the universe. Heaven and Earth are filled with my glorious presence. When you criticize or complain, you're acting as if you think you could run the world better than I do.

From your limited human perspective, it may look as if I mismanaging things, but you don't know what I know or what I see. If I pulled back the curtain to allow you to view heavenly realms, you would understand so much more.

However, I have designed you to live by faith, not by sight. I lovingly shield you from knowing the future or seeing into the spirit world, acknowledge my sovereignty. That was better. By giving thanks and all circumstances.

So I so needed that message today. You know, we need to live in faith, not by sight. And when you have challenging times when you're dealing with upset, loss, heartbreak, illness, whatever challenge you're faced with today, you question everything. Why is this happening? Why did not go the way I thought it would? Why doesn't God have his hand on this?

And the message is turn it over to God. Let go and let God. God's plan is greater than yours. And it is not for us to challenge our fight. It is for us to let go and walk with faith, even though we don't understand yet.

And I have some experience with this, you know, for most of my life, I did not live that way. I wanted to control everything and I wanted the outcome to be what I dictated. And it never worked out ideally.

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