Welcome to Follow Him favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each

week's lesson. John, we're in Genesis chapters 12 through 17 and a couple of chapters in Moses this

week. And I have a story for you that fits this moment where Lot and Abram start to get into

some strife, them in their households.

There's a little bit of contention happening, and Abram turns to Lott and says, hey, let's work this out.

I was in seminary. Long time ago, I was a young seminary teacher. We were talking about siblings and relationships.

How hard they are sometimes.

This one student, she raised her hand and she said, I get so frustrated.

I get so mad because whenever it's my brother's turn to do the dishes, he goes to the bathroom and locks the door.

I know that he's going in there because he doesn't want to do the dishes, and I try to stop him, and he goes in, and then he won't come out until someone else does him.

And she's like, it just makes me so mad. I just get so angry. You know, some of the other students were saying, yeah, I hate that. And they all, you know, I guess it happens frequently.

Happens at our house. This young man raises his hand, and I'll be honest, Sean, I guess it happens frequently. Happens at our house.

This young man raises his hand, and I'll be honest, John, I couldn't say his full name.

His name was, and I'm going to just guess here, it was like Toaulaula, right?

It was this beautiful long Polynesian name, but everyone just called him Toe.

Because that was the first, that was the first sound of his name.

Yeah, Toe.

And he was a big guy.

He was a big toe.

Toe raises his hand and he says, when my siblings don't do their chores, I just do them for them. And it was just silent in the room.

What? I think they were expecting when my siblings don't do their chores, right, I cracked their school.

He just said, I just usually just do them. And I remember the student who'd asked the question initially,

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