Hello, everyone.

Welcome to Follow Him Favorites.

If you're new to the podcast, each week John and I will share a story that we don't share on the podcast to go with each week's lesson.

John, our lesson this week is a little bit different.

We don't have a scripture block.

It's basically an overview

or an introduction to the Old Testament. The Old Testament, even in the manual, it says,

you might be scared to approach the Old Testament. And it made me think of a story. It made me think

of something that happened to when I was a kid. I'm excited to tell you this story. A little bit scared. It reminded me think of a story. It made me think of something that happened to when I was a kid.

I'm excited to tell you this story. A little bit scared. It reminded me of something that happened to me when I was young. My parents loved to visit the cemetery every Memorial Day. I was not a fan. It was

usually the first day of summer. I did not want to get in the car and drive a long ways to go put flowers on graves,

which I, as a kid, thought, what a waste.

They're just going to throw those flowers away anyway.

But we would go to the store and pick up flowers, and then we'd go over,

and we'd always pick up my grandmother.

Who I loved, John, but I didn't want to

sit next to her in the car for hours. You would see me and my brother on either side of her in the

back seat leaning towards the door. We loved her grandma, we loved hugging her, we loved

when we got gifts from her, but we didn't want to sit arm to arm with her because we didn't

know if being old was contagious. I remember this particular year, we get to the cemetery. I don't

know how I was. I must have been 11 or 12 years old. I'm walking around the cemetery. I thought

they were so boring. My grandma was on the other side of this big bush. I was coming around it,

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