What's up, Port, how are we doing tonight?

Hey, it's it's so good to see you if this is your first time ever at the

porch. My name's Timothy Atika. I'm one of the teaching pastors here at the

porch as well as on Sunday mornings. I'm so glad that you made it if this is your

first time. I hope that Tuesday nights feels like home quickly for you. There's a

QR code that's going to go on the screen. We'd love to connect with you if we can

help make this place feel a little bit smaller and a little bit easier to connect

at than we would love to get in touch with you that way. Also, I want to give a

shout out to several porch live locations that are watching tonight in

different parts of the nation. Say hello to porch live, Scottsdale, and new to

the mix, porch live at Lena and porch live Daytona, which is awesome. Thank you

for joining us. We are so glad that you made it. I want to start off tonight just

by sharing something with you that is a little bit embarrassing for me to share

but I'm going to do it anyway. I work from home a lot. So any message that I

write, I write from a rocking chair in my bedroom. So this is me basically all

day. If you want to know how the magic happens, this is just me writing away

every day. But to my right, right next to my rocking chair is this lamp stand.

And it's a big circle with edges on it. So it kind of catches a bunch of clutter

and I was looking at it today. And I realized just how much junk had piled up

on the table that I look at every single day. So every single day I sit down. And

this is what is next to me. I just pulled a bunch of things that have been sitting

next to me for a long time. This is a bag of pretzels from an American

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