Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I am one of those guys who is fortunate to have had wonderful grandparents

but who is unfortunate to not have them in my life anymore all four of my

grandparents have passed away and I miss them all. They were all

spectacular. And one of the tough things about loss is that you feel it differently over time.

There's of course that gaping wound that happens when you lose

somebody you love and stings horribly in the moment, but then there's this numbing

loss over time as you have less and less occasion to interact with things they set in

motion to interact with things that that lost loved one touched or did or organized

or arranged and you realize that time has gone down river and you're moving

on chronologically from them and you feel less of that proximity as their stuff and their fingerprints aren't around anymore.

And I've felt that unfold with the loss of all four of my grandparents, but every now and

then I have these cool moments of reconnection, and I had one of those

this weekend, and I've been excited to get to a microphone and share this with you.

So here's what happened.

I've got this little red toolbox sitting in front of me here that belonged to my Grand Ed Whitman.

It's skinny, it's beat up, it looks like something from maybe the 50s or the 60s, and doesn't have a ton of tools

in it, but you know there's maybe 30, yeah, maybe 30 items in here.

And so finally, I had the occasion after my parents handed this to me a couple of weeks ago,

and like, hey, we had this in the garage, haven't opened it,

thought you might want it.

I was like, yeah, I want it.

So I took it, I worked on some stuff this weekend and everything I needed for the job was in there

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