Hey my friend, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. When I was a kid, we lived in

Northwest Iowa for just a little while.

This is right at the beginning of my memories.

But the house we lived in was a parsonage.

My dad was a pastor, and so there was an acreage,

it was a country church, and on that acreage you had a whole bunch of lawn, and you also

had a church, and then you also had a big white house, a two-story white house surrounded by farmland, cornfields all around on every side.

And I remember a lot about it, even though it's been a while now, and one of my memories is a little garden I think that my mom had

out in the back I saw a snake there that my first like garter snake garden snake snake kind of thing. I remember freaking me out and

call my dad to come and do something about it. And when I went back last time, which has been a few

years ago, I took my kids and we went to find this place out in the country.

We pulled up and the house I said was there, wasn't there anymore. It was gone.

They bulldozed it, I don't have financial concerns or something was wrong with the foundation.

I have no idea what the deal was, but it's gone.

And the land was pretty transformed as well, and so I couldn't find the garden.

I was like, that was where I saw my first snake.

I wanted to show you the garden. I got one of my earliest memories is right there because I saw that snake.

And it just occurred to me that planet Earth reclaims certainty about our physical location memories very, very quickly.

It was not that long ago that I was a kid there.

I mean, yeah, time goes fast, yeah, we're all aging fast,

but into the grand scheme of everything, I was just a kid in that

garden, wearing little trousers that my mom sewed for me to save us money and seeing my first

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