And we're alive. I got a question that's sort of probably not what you're expecting, but I really

want to ask you. Tell me about your love for Jesus Christ. Well, he really is my savior,

and he's really your savior. And if anybody ever hopes to be saved and rescued from this body that's tending towards death,

he's our only hope.

And I just am incredibly grateful that God, the Father, had mercy on me.

And when I was drifting away from him and the church, a friend invited me to make a Curcio,

which is a weekend retreat.

And at a certain point during the retreat,

I just felt like, you know, there's Jesus that they're talking about.

He's here.

Like he's real. Like he really has been raised from the dead.

And I knew,

I knew he was like,

wanting to communicate to me.

I didn't hear any voices or see any visions,

but I knew I had to respond to this perception that he really is the Lord. He really

is alive. And I tried to bargain with him for a while. Like, Lord, if you let me do this, then

I'll come back to the church. But coming back to the church isn't really where it's all about.

What it's really all about is unconditional surrender.

You know, unconditional surrender to the one who is the Lord,

the one through whom everything that has come to be has come to be,

the one who's coming again in glory, the judge living the dead.

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