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Hey there, Passion. I'm so glad to be able to have an opportunity to be back with you.

I have been waiting for the opportunity to be back with you. And so despite the craziness of the circumstances that we are all in right now, the fact that it has given opportunity for me to be back with you in this way feels like a gift.

I'm excited about God's word to continue what it is that he's already been doing in your heart and in my heart and life.

So why don't we pray and go to God's word together.

Lord, we thank you for this privilege that we have to know that you are speaking to us and that no matter where in the world we are right now, we can hear your voice.

So Lord, I pray that you would take this one little simple message and you would divide it however many multiple thousands of different ways you need to so that every single person under the sound of my voice, no matter what culture or continent they may be on no matter what country, Lord.

I pray that every single one of us right now will know we have been in the presence of God in the mighty name of Jesus. I pray. Amen.

Well, for about 10 years or so, my family and I lived in a fairly rural part of the Dallas Fort Worth area. We planned it that way when our children were little.

I've got giants now my oldest is 18 like six foot three inch tall. Then I've got a 16 year old. He's about six foot two inches tall. And then I've got a 12 year old, but he stands the exact same height as me.

So I am being outgrown very quickly in my household. And when they were younger, we spent 10 years living about 10 minutes away from the city so we could get there quickly, but we felt like we were worlds away.

We would drive back to our home that was on a lazy little two lane road and we enjoyed it back there because you know there were things that three sons need in their lives like bugs and mud and trees and stuff like that.

Anytime the boys would come to me when they were growing up and say, Mom, I'm bored. I would say, no, you not you see that tree out there. Go and play with it. I don't care what you do with the tree. You can play tag with the tree. You can eat the tree. I don't care what you do, but you're not going to be bored out here in the country.

Enjoy yourself. One of the things I love most about living out there was that my neighbor who happened to be one of my closest friends. She has a pond in the front of her pot property.

I cannot tell you how much we have enjoyed this pond. We would go over and fish as often as we could. We would go and throw sticks out on the pond. Her dog would go out and swim into the middle of the pond and go grab the sticks retrieve them and bring them back.

I mean, my boys had so much fun growing up by that pond. But do you know it was very interesting as we lived there one year after the next one Texas summer after the next.

There was one summer in particular where I noticed that during a drought when the skies were shut up, there was no rain. That Rachel's pond, Tom and Rachel are neighbors still had water in it.

The level was a little low, but there was still water there. The reason why this was particularly intriguing to me was because there were other neighbors throughout this particular area of the city that also had ponds when I was jogging or walking with my children or when I was driving around, I could see other properties that also had ponds

beside or in front or even in the back of the property. And during this same summer when my neighbors across the street still had water, even with low levels in their pond, I noticed that some of these other ponds had no water at all.

It actually just began to look like a big hole that was sitting in front of their property. No rain coming down, no water filling it up.

There was only one difference I would learn between Tom and Rachel's pond and some of those other man made ponds in the neighborhood.

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