Hey guys, before we get started, I just want to do something real quick.

I've never done before.

I want to give a quick shout out to Nick Laughaswiler.

And the reason I'm doing this is because I heard the story this week about Nick.

Nick is currently serving the United States Navy.

He is away from his family, his wife and his children, five children.

He had very few things that he could take with him on his deployment and a few of the things

that he took with him were the dad tired books, which he read through.

He listens to the dad tired podcast every week and then calls his wife and they talk about

it.

He's got ways that they can continue to point each other and their kids towards Jesus.

He's gone through our family leadership program.

He recently listened to one of the home school episodes that we did, bought the book from

the author that we interviewed and then called his wife and let her know that he's excited

to get home and help her as she's working to homeschool their five children.

Man, I'm just amazed at guys like this who have every circumstance to check out and

to say, you know what, I'm not, I just can't do it.

It's impossible for me to lead my family well.

But this guy, Nick, said even in the middle of these circumstances, even being away from

my family, I'm going to do everything in my power to continue to point my family to Jesus.

And Nick, I just want you to know, man, I so appreciate you, I appreciate you listening

to the dad tired podcast reading the books, but even way beyond that, man, I appreciate

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