Good morning. Welcome to the morning motivation, brought to you by the Public Square app and Patriot

Gold Group. Felt wonderful to do a full-length Politics by Faith episode that's available right now about

the soul. Thank you for your patience on how long it took me to get back on the on the bandwagon here with our family

moving and it took me a lot i underestimated how stressful isn't the word although yeah i just

underestimated how much time and energy it would take to move so i apologize for not getting on

the bandwagon quicker this This week we're talking about

Luke 10 and what Jesus said to his disciples, you really need to be rejoicing in. Because the

disciples just did a rejoice-able thing. They just did a thing that anyone would rejoice in. They

did what Jesus said, and they were demons were obeying them, and it's amazing.

And Jesus is like, no, what you really need to rejoice in is that your name is written in heaven.

And I just think about this, I haven't heard this story ever until recently, but now I think about it,

because I always think about how no matter what you want in this world fame, money,

whatever, it's not going to make you happy.

I just won't.

So what will make you happy?

Well, Jesus told you the fact that your name is written in heaven.

From a secular side, there's a book by David Brooks called The Second Mountain.

David Brooks, writer for the New York Times, and his life hit rock bottom.

His wife left him. He's estranged from his kids. And he just was a little bit of terrible life,

a really sad life. And he realized eventually that there are two mountains in life. The first

is the first mountain you climb, the one

that you're pressured to climb, the one you're expected to climb, the mountain of personal

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