What a joy it is to meet creative people.

Dave Carl is one of those people.

And I mean this, Dave, as I look you in the eye today.

We have you to thank for creating the scripts for our Paws and tales ministry over the years.

You've written the stories and you put them together in such a beautiful way

with all the characters in it that people, I know, sit on the edge of their seat,

listening to them from one day to the next.

So catch us up for those that may not

know what pause and tales refers to, and then give us a little bit of an insight that you have

regarding this ministry. I'd be thrilled to. Pause and tales was born from your storytelling.

As a young adult, I'm sitting listening to your sermons and your storytelling,

and I think of pause and tales as an extension of your storytelling. And this is a fictitional world,

and they're all talking animals. And we are using this story to sneak in biblical truths. And the key of that God is

just crazy in love with his children. And you can't hear that too much. And we try to say it in a

thousand different ways as we created pause and tales

that has been around for a long, long time. We have four new episodes this last year,

and we have new projects in the works. And we receive letters. And I have one in front of me now.

I'd like to read to you, and this just gives me

pause. So, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you all for your ministry. I have five

children, and we've been listening to your podcast for years since my oldest, almost 12, was little. We love it. We waited for the new episodes

with great anticipation. My fifth was born last year. She will be one at the end of this month.

She was a birth diagnosis of Down syndrome. You can imagine all of our amazement when we listened to

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