Hello and welcome to Bible Stories.

We are your hosts, Matt Mullins.

Hello.

And my name is Todd Hamans.

And we're two ministers slash buds who love telling the stories of the Bible.

And hey, we can't wait to share this one with you because Matt, mom's friends, anyone listening.

We're continuing on in our Kings series.

That's right. Todd, how are you? It's so good to see you. Doing well. Doing well. It's sunny. It's warm outside.

Just just living it over here. How are y'all? I'm good. I'm good. We're about to come up on eight days of solid rain. We're in Texas. It's coming.

Yeah. It's coming for us. That's tough. Do you get sad on a rainy day or do you get energized?

Great question. If it's, uh, if it hasn't rained in a while and then it rains, I kind of enjoy,

like I enjoy that day. If it rains multiple days in a row,

it's gloomy and overcasts, your boy can get a little seasonal depressive there just for, you know.

So, yeah, it can happen. But, you know, man, I'm now at that age where I look around and I think,

you know, the grass does need a little, a little rain. I appreciate it. Yeah. As I look around at I think, you know, the grass does need a little rain.

I appreciate it.

Yeah.

As I look around at this age through my cataract laden eyes, what I see is the land that the Lord forgot, where it's made of like straight clay.

So if it rains for eight days, I'm going to have like a jacuz in my backyard.

Yeah. So I get out there with a pump, a hand pump, just. And the nice thing about working outside during the rain is no one can, my wife and child can't see me crying as I'm like desperately

to please do we're to stop getting the water out of my backyard so my dog doesn't drown in it you know

just a little yard work just a little yard work an existential crisis and saving a puppy his name's

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