It was great.

It was great. Good morning. How's everybody? All right. All right. So good to be with you all. If we

haven't met, my name is John, and I'm excited to be on staff here at Harris Creek. Yes, thank you.

Come on. And so I want to tell you a little story about how I got to be here.

So it was about three years ago.

I was invited by a good friend to go out to Colorado for a few days for a retreat at a camp with some pastors and business leaders from around the country.

My kind of thing, something I love doing.

I said, I'm in.

Get into Denver.

Get into my rental car, type in the

address of the center where we were going, three-hour drive from the airport. Now, we're all used

to drive into airports. We're in Waco, I get it. But, come on the other end as well, it felt a little

excessive. I was sure I was driving by a lot of beautiful retreat centers

on those three hours, had to do it. I was committed at that point. I mean, I literally was in the

airport, so I drove, and I got there. And when I checked in, the person at the front desk gave

me a key, and they showed me a map, you know how they have a map say, hey, here's the grounds

and here are the different cabins. This was a family camp. And so they had some cabins that had

beds for, you know, parents and king bed, queen bed, some for kids with little twin beds. And I look,

and I see in the map, they put my initials, JP, and I thought, man, I noticed that

it was a kid room. I didn't make the cut to get into a, you know, adult-sized room, I guess.

And I was a little bit disappointed because that meant there's two beds. So a little bit

about me to be a little vulnerable here at the start. I don't, well, how do I say it? I really don't like sharing a room with strangers when I travel. I don't know if any of you can relate. It's okay if you can't. I get it. It's kind of a quirk. But it just makes me, you know, when you have little kids like I have, when you get away from that, it's so precious. You're not going to sleep well. It's going to, person's going to be weird. And I'm thinking these thoughts. And I said, you know what, John, this is a Christian retreat. You should just really have a better attitude. So I forced myself to do it. got up to my room, didn't unpack, actually,

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