All right, Gordon. Hello, recording. How are you?

I don't know what that's all about. Here we go.

How many of you spread the mic? And this is a sense of presence. So one of the things people

often get will including myself. There's not just other people. One of the things we as human

beings sometimes get really disturbed by is the brokenness that we experience in this world,

the evil we experience in this world. And that makes complete sense. Doesn't it? I mean, it's just

one of those situations where it hurts. Like suffering hurts, evil hurts, grief breaks our heart.

That's that's real. The fact that people, including ourselves, can do really awful things.

That's that's that's difficult.

But it's not a surprise, right? Because we all have hearts. We all know ourselves.

We all know what it is to say, I know what I'm supposed to do. I don't do that.

I know what I even want to do. I don't do that. I know it. I should avoid doing it.

And I do that. Like we all know that. We all, again, in some ways, yes, suffering. So painful,

grief, so real, overwhelming, crushing at times. Our weakness and our brokenness and others

weakness is and their brokenness is those are painful. But the interesting thing is they shouldn't

be a surprise. What's a surprise, I think? What's a surprise is the fact that we care.

What's a surprise is that people who have done evil things, they want to change.

I think we can save even more, even more pronounced, even more kind of pointedly.

It's not shocking or a surprise that we fall. It's not shocking or a surprise that we say no to God.

What's a miracle is that we ever come back to Him. And when I say miracle, I really mean miracle.

I mean an act of grace. Because think of all that has to happen for us to, you know, with our broken

hearts, with our petty and small and just, you know, all the mess we are, to be able to come back

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