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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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devotional. A welcome to the Daily Drive's final episode of 2023. You know, we fired up this podcast

this past February and it has been an absolute blast and

privilege to get to hang with you for just a few minutes every weekday.

So thanks for building this into the rhythm of your life this year, and man, I am looking

forward to pursuing God together in 2024.

My name is Mike, by the way, and we have been focused this week on a young girl named Mary,

who was chosen to be the mom of Jesus.

Now, some of you may have been taught different things about Mary depending upon your religious

background, but what we know of her from Scripture is that she was an ordinary girl

with the kind of humility that God finds impressive. In fact, did you know

that humility is the thing that makes God stand back smile and say, whoa, now that's, that's

impressive. So in that respect, Mary was extremely impressive. And I love how God chooses the ordinary to do extraordinary things.

In fact, all the cast of characters in the Christmas story were, well, let's say, extra ordinary.

Mary? Her blue-collar car heartwear and husband Joseph? The birthing room is a cave complete with sheep,

donkeys, oxen manure,

flies, spiders, the visitors are strangers who smell like all those animals. They're not scrubbed up.

They're not mask up in any way. They're just some curious shepherds who have been told to go find a baby in a manger. Everything was so extra ordinary.

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