Hey, good morning, church. Good to be with you guys. So I brought a little souvenir home from spring break,

left my ACL in Colorado, so doctors think. You know, we went on this spring break, and whenever it rolls

around, every spring, it's just like, it's a tradition. Like spring happens, we have spring break.

I don't know who started that. I don't know who I have to thank for that, but every spring, there's spring break. It always was when I was a kid. I can remember going to DC and Florida. There's always spring break. It's this tradition that's gained momentum and I don't know when it started. It happens with traditions. Like there's many traditions, aside from spring break,

that are like these things that gain momentum and they lose their meaning. So you do them,

but you're like, wait, why do we even do that? Like, who started that? Where did that come from?

Let me give you a couple. See if they're familiar. Anybody like knock on wood, they say something

like, knock on wood. You got that? You're going to regret raising your hand. It's an old Celtic

druid tradition because they believed that demons lived in wood. And so if you would knock on the

wood, it would drive the demon out and therefore you would invoke this blessing upon whatever you're saying.

So let's all cut that out.

The second one that I would say is when you sneeze.

What do you say when someone sneezes?

Bless you or God bless you.

You know the reason why?

Well, people believe three things.

One, that your heart momentarily stops when you sneeze,

so you temporarily die, so you gotta say bless you.

Two, that your soul leaves your body when you sneeze.

That's what the ancients thought, like, oh, you're like, poof!

And so you gotta say bless you so that it like come back in that's crazy and then the third one

in the sixth century there was a particular pope who would who instituted like you should say god bless

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