Hello, I'm John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart Audio Podcast.

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Well, welcome again to the Ransomed Heart Podcast, this is Craig McConnell and just continuing in a little

series of me reading some of what I hope will be a book. In some of these journal entries

that I'll be reading you can find on our website under my blog.

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This is a journal entry from recently on one of my trips back home to Los Angeles and I've titled it The Taxi.

Lori and I fly into L.A.

for me to officiate the wedding of one of my daughter's friends.

The wedding's on the beach where we live prior to God's calling us to Colorado.

On the beach. How cool is that?

Friday night the rehearsal on the sand goes well.

Yeah, the marine layer moves in a little early

and the onshore breeze is brisk that hey it'll be great

miniana. Note while I tend over-planned for every contingency I still view myself as

an optimist. Now following the rehearsal dinner

fair I'm caught flat-footed by the affection the two families expressed

towards one another. I feel like a voyeur peeping in on the intimacy

of others. I wonder why love surprises me. Am I a cynic? A little backstory. Lately, as a result of reading some of John Stott's

commentaries, I've been picturing the Apostle John, an extreme old age at Ephesus being

carried into the congregation in the arms of his disciples unable to say anything except little children love one another.

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