This is Craig McConnell and I'm with Alan Arnold and welcome you to the Ransom Heart

podcast today.

It happens to be Spring in Colorado, which means one day is beautifully sunny in the

70s and just gorgeously warm and then we get what foot half of snow you feed a snow

shovel in our driveways right John years ago told me there's no spring in Colorado

It's a battle between winter and summer. Well usually every

Mother's Day here it snows and so we probably have another one a few weeks

away. We got a few. Yeah, yeah. Let's not think about that. Okay. So here's the best way not to think about that Craig.

You just got back from a trip recently and it was not snowy at all there, right? It was not a bit tropical paradise yeah so tell me a little bit about that yeah

thanks a lot listeners oh my gosh, how much Lori and I just needed some beauty, some adventure, some really rich

fellowship, a vacation real life. some really

but more than vacation,

but more than vacation, renewal, refreshment,

it felt like just soul care

and it really, really deep way and it also felt like just the beginning.

But Lori and I were invited to join two other couples sailing through the British Virgin Island.

And it was a gift to us that was just a stake in the ground memory of such wonderful time.

But yeah, so we were sailing the British Virgin Islands, retr the the path of many a pirate of this image of you in your

Sailors cap and the pipe out of your mouth at the front of the ship just

Yeah, I was the masthead mouth at the front of the ship just commanding.

I was the masthead.

Right, the masthead.

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