Thank you very much. Thank you. Good morning. And happy new year everybody. You have no idea what a really happy thing it is for me to be here at the very beginning of the year with you and

Robert's invitation came many months ago and I was I did the same thing last year.

Robert even talked like it might happen next year, but he's waiting to see how it goes today.

But it is a joyful, joyful thing to be to feel such a part of Gateway Church life and to greet all of you

I was thinking about the nice things that he said about the sum of a life that has gone on for a long time.

Folks, I'll tell you.

You know, Anna and I, this is not to elicit any applause,

so you're in a new obligation.

We celebrated not very long ago our 55th wedding anniversary.

People look at her and they say, thank you.

They look at her and they say,

that never said it to me, but I know that they say,

55th anniversary and they look at her and they say she must got married when she was 10

They look at me and they say he got married when he was 40. But she's not with me on the trip because this is one of those bounce trips. I go from here to Orlando and it's just

here last evening tonight. This afternoon we fly to Orlando and one of my associates

is traveling with me and so she's not here but I bring

greetings from her and we just had the probably one of the most wonderful

Christmases that I think we've ever had. One of the things making it so nice was being

with so many of our great grandchildren. There is a word, five of them by the way, were with us.

They're all babies and just watching them play around together.

It was just scream at points.

But of laughter, I don't mean the scream, you know. There was some of that too, but it was just very, very, very, very, just a lot of fun on Christmas morning.

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