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Well, it's good to be here.

Some of you might remember, but at the beginning of December, I made a couple of statements

from the state that I feel like we're God inspired, and it was, what was going to happen

in the month of December would actually set the tone for 2020, that what was going to happen

in the month of December would actually be our new floor.

And I didn't know, obviously, the tragedy that we just, I know tragedy is the right word,

but the great loss that we experienced with the family with olive. And, but it's, in coming back from our trip, I've never, we have never prayed

this much on a vacation before. I'll just tell you that. I mean, it's amazing. I went to bed

praying, woke up praying, walking the beaches praying, and the mountain praying, eating.

I mean, it was just constantly just contending from thousands of miles away. And obviously,

since we've been home, we've been reconnecting with our teams and staff and the families and

the Heligandthals and just been incredibly moved, for one. And there's a phrase that I think

Gabe said it best. I heard him say it a few years ago. He said, I love us. And I cannot tell you how

how proud I am of us for how we navigated that situation with the death of Olive. And just hearing

the awakening, the what's happened in the hearts of our house, the hearts of our teams and our church, there's just been a massive awakening.

And to be honest with you, it's our new floor.

It's our new floor.

There's no going back.

I mean, you can choose to go back, but I hope you won't.

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