Hello, Ransom Tard, podcast listeners.

This is your close friend sitting next to the fireplace Craig McConnell,

and with Alan Arnold enjoying another

beautiful spring day in Colorado. Hey Craig how are you? I'm pretty good. Was that a warm

opening? That was a good opening, yes. And we left the listeners last time if they heard last week's podcast, if I can paint the picture with you on a coral reef, maybe not on it, but in the water, in your speedo, floating, and singing

Jimmy Buffett tunes, right?

I get that right?

Well, partially, yeah.

Jimmy Buffet, yeah, he sings a lot about the tropics.

And sometimes we sing along, sometimes we don't.

But yeah, it's just floating in the presence of God so we were talking

last time about how that was so replenishing restored it for your soul to be on this vacation in the tropics, basically where

there was no set rhythm of the day other than to step into the joy of community, of conversation with the other two couples

and you and Lori on this boat and just the life that that brought to you.

Oh, yeah, you know what? I think I've laughed more in nine days than I had in five years.

Wow. Yeah, wow. The renewal was so good.

So the question was, well the question is, how can we experience a taste of that in the dailyness of our life when, you know, the people listening and even I sitting here

I'm like, well, I want that trip. I want to be there. I mean, if I could be there,

then I could take care of my soul really well.

That's good, yeah.

But the reality is we get invited to take care of our soul every day.

My God. The rest and the renewal that God offers doesn't ultimately come

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