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Hope all is well with you guys. Tonight, we are continuing our series that we are calling Glory, and we have been walking through the gospel of John.

And the best way for me to start is by just sharing with you what happened on my sixth date with my wife, Catherine.

So after five dates, we reached the sixth date, and I realized that it was time for us to have a clarifying conversation in our relationship that some people know as the DTR, which stands for defining the relationship.

And the way that I planned to have this clarifying conversation with Catherine was I planned to do it at a concert, specifically a U2 concert.

Some of you, that's good to hear, because if the next generation is like you who? U2. All right, people, go look them up. They'll change your life.

But we went to this concert, and I didn't know when I was going to do it. I just knew it was going to happen at some point in the concert, and I just kind of wanted to let U2 lead the way.

And so we were in the concert, we were enjoying the concert, in the middle of the concert, Catherine said that she needed to go to the bathroom.

I said that I would go with her, not to the same restroom, obviously, but we kind of did art separate things, and I finished first, and I'm giving you way too much information.

All of this has been unnecessary up until this point. This is where it actually gets important.

So I am waiting on Catherine to come out, and I'm standing in like the breezeway, the tunnel that takes you back to your seats, and I'm listening to U2, and U2 is playing this song that's called Sunday Bloody Sunday.

And I realized in that moment, this is it. This is when I'm going to have a DTR with Catherine. You might be wondering if Sunday Bloody Sunday is a romantic song. It is not. It is about people dying.

And I realized that in this moment, there's going to be a birth of a new relationship. I don't know how to make that tie to Sunday Bloody Sunday, but I realized that we're going to have a conversation.

So Catherine came out of the bathroom, and we're about to go to our seats. U2 is playing Sunday Bloody Sunday, and right there, I just stopped her, and I just said, hey, I need to tell you something.

I said, I like you. She said, I like you too. I was like, I like you too, but do you like me too?

And she said, this is what happened. I said, I like you. And she said, I like you too. And I just froze, and I was like, all right, we just went back to our seats, and we sit silently next to each other for about 20 minutes.

And that really, the reason I share that night with you is the real DTR in our relationship happened while watching the animated movie Chicken Little, but U2 concert sounds way sexier, so we'll just say that that was the moment.

But my point in telling you all this is that there, there came a time in our relationship when Kat and I, when we were dating, where we just needed to have a clarifying conversation.

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