Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John, the chapters for Come Follow Me this week are Genesis 18 through 23. There's a moment in here that I think I have a story that fits.

Genesis 1926, you know this story. Lot and his family. They have to run away from Sodom and Gomorrah, which is like the sinful place that's about to be destroyed. They're trying to get away. I think of it as kind of like the great and spacious building. Like, we got to get out of here. Run away. And you notice Lott's wife, for some reason, just can't do it.

She turns around, looked back.

And I think of that as like wanted to go back.

She became a pillar of salt.

Not exactly sure what that means.

So here's the story.

I don't know if you ever read Percy Jackson the series to your kids, John,

but I did. There's this moment where Percy Jackson and his friend Annabeth and his other friend

Grover, they have to save the world. It's a pretty big job. They have to save the world. And on their

way, they run into a place called the Lotus Casino. Their job is to get in there, get something out,

and go, keep going to save the world. But they get in and they find that this place is full of

games. It is wall-to-wall games and fun and food. And pretty soon they forget about their mission, which was to save the world.

I can see how that might slip your mind.

Well, they start playing games.

Annabeth is playing trivia, Brainiac games.

Grover is playing hunting games, which is kind of odd if you know anything about Grover.

Percy Jackson is doing

like these thrill, bungee cord jumping and things. He starts talking to another guy, a stranger,

at the casino, and every time they win a game, the guy says, whoa, groovy. Percy Jackson says,

why do you say groovy? And he turns to him and says, how long have you

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