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This is Dave Van Vickle, and I'm not joined by Gomer this week,

but I am confident he'll be back next week. I hope you all are well in this craziness.

This is a wild time to be in the world right now during this election season and all the craziness right now on

Facebook and on in the media and everything like that. It's just it's nuts. You know, I feel very

much isolated from society because we don't like our television is not really hooked up to anything.

So we don't have news sources other than other than social media. And every time somebody posts something,

you know, Facebook puts something on there saying that it needs to like fact check this or

something. So I have no idea what's going on out there. For all I know, Kanye won the presidency,

in all honesty. I really don't know much more than that. And I just know it's wild out there. It's a turbulent time.

I'm sure a lot of people feel, a lot of people seem to feel a lot of stress about this election.

You know, I'm not normally a person who gets stressed out about elections, but I feel everyone

else's stress right now. So there must be something

something special right now, you know? And so we'll just continue to pray, right? I'm reminded

constantly this phrase, this quote from Corey Tembun that has saved my life. And I think I brought

it up over the last like several episodes, but right, the tree on the mountain has little my life. And I think I brought it up over the last, like, several episodes, but, right, the tree on the mountain has little to do in the face of a storm other than put

its roots down deep. That's, that's all we can do. That's all we can do, brothers and sisters,

is make sure that our roots are as deep as possible, right, that we are living lives of holiness,

because if you are truly living a life of holiness, nothing can touch you. Nothing can touch

you, right? I mean, there's, there's just no, you know, as Paul says, I've learned to live in

lack and I've learned to live in abundance, right? There's, there's, and we know who

our king is. So nothing to worry about here, nothing to worry about. I have a lot of stuff coming up.

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