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Hi! Hey! Hey! I'm so glad to be here!

So it's Super Bowl Sunday! So the clear choice for Super Bowl Sunday is to lay the

wheelchair in the congregation. Disgusting! Maybe Tim T. Bowen is available. I'm just

gonna get right about now if you are totally on zero with me and my story which is

very possible. You're probably slipping out. Like, wait, I come to church to be a

better about my life and there's a girl in the wheelchair on this stage. This

really says it's about to majorly bump me out. This looks like it could be majorly

bummer. Not as often Sunday fun day. And maybe you're actually the sweet church

lady in the back who's right about now thinking like, bless her heart. That poor little thing,

she must be having a royal heart time. Well, let me assure you I am not having a

really hard time. And this will hopefully not be a bummer message for you. I hope not.

I don't think it will. I actually don't really want to do something else. I don't want to

inspire you today. It's so funny to say also I know but I really don't have any interest

in inspiring you with my story or in bumming you out with my story. Neither one. I want

to do something very different that I think the Lord has really called me to do which is

linked to our stories because they're actually all the same story even though they may look

totally different. Have any of you had a brain stem stroke very nearly died and it comes

severely disabled afterwards? Maybe there's a few. No, there never has been ever before.

And yet, have any of you ever had any pain in your life? Any suffering? Anybody? Pain

suffering? It's so universal that we've all had hard stuff. Stuff that's not okay pain

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