Hey, my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast.

And you know what?

I hope your life is good right now.

Like, I hope that you look out your window and you see beautiful things.

I hope that you think about the relationships that you have and that you've enjoyed, even

relationships that have moved on, but that you enjoyed for a time.

And what you see in that is something beautiful and redemptive and big picture.

As we talked about last week, it's just a lot of people right now who are very invested

for different reasons in making us feel like the world is burning down and everything

is falling apart.

And we should be mad at everybody and we should feel insecure and I don't think we need

to feel that.

I think there's a ton to be thankful for.

I think that there are a ton of beautiful things happening in our lives even right now.

And I think it for one second, we just turn our attention away from the people who really

really need us to be mad about each other and mad about everything.

We can see that stuff and then we can come back to the things that might be actual problems

with sobriety and clarity and deal with them, keep them in perspective.

So I just hope those things are evident to you this time of year.

I hope you've had time to reflect on that stuff and I hope you experience points of encouragement

and light and optimism this week.

And I hope that one of the things that is writing a narrative into your life of encouragement

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