So right after my wife and I got married we moved into this attic apartment it was our

first place ever and it was really fun it was an interesting place to live and start

out life together had these weird angled ceilings and so even the person who was in that

tall like me would have to hunch over to stand in front of the toilet or to do the dishes

but it was magical it was great and we lived in Zion Illinois and we lived in a really

diverse really fun neighborhood got to know all the neighbors and I went downstairs and

I was in my backyard and goofing around down there and the neighbor kid comes over you

know kind of a pudgy kid probably about 10 years old full of energy life fun goofy and he's

wanted to play and I was like sure yeah we can throw the ball around or whatever I introduce

myself and I was like what's your name man and he's like my name's Kyle I'm like all right

and then he looks at me with this real like I'm gonna blow your mind Kyle Puckett and I was

like cool Kyle Puckett nice to meet you and he's like that name mean anything to you like well

yeah I mean there's the great Kirby Puckett you have the same last name as him he's like that's

my uncle and I was like dang your uncle is awesome he's a great at baseball that's really cool man

and I let him tell me stories about Kirby Puckett and I love being that kid's neighbor but there

was that moment where he dropped that name and he knew in the eye contact said so that that

should mean something to me that should carry some weight and it did likewise when we look at

Matthew chapter 14 and this chapter that we're into about the grief that is inflicted on Jesus by

the execution of John the Baptist and how he continues to be dependent on his father and how he

continues to be compassionate toward others in the meantime we get to this moment where he's fed the

5,000 and he sends the disciples off in a boat and he goes up on a mountainside to pray and be with

his father and then is the evening gives way tonight he looks out in the boats a long way from

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