Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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I'll never forget one Saturday afternoon when I was 16 years old. I walked in the kitchen and my father was grilling hamburgers

that Saturday afternoon. I was like, yeah, I'm hungry, Dad. He said, great. He said, can you run to the

store for me and pick up a few little items? I just need some mustard, some pickles, just a couple

little items. I said, absolutely. I mean, I was 16 years old just waiting

to get behind the wheel. Any excuse to drive, and I was right there. So he went to give me his keys,

and as he was giving me the keys, he said, now look, Victoria, he said, I want you to go straight

to the grocery store, I want you to come straight back. And don't open the passenger side window.

Don't roll it down because it's off the tracks.

And he said, I have to get it repaired next week.

So don't open the window.

I took the keys from his hand and I rushed out the back door,

jumped in the car, cranked it up, drove down the street to my best

girlfriend's house, and picked her up.

I said, we're going to the grocery store.

As we were on our way to the grocery store, about to leave the neighborhood, we saw some of our

friends who lived in the neighborhood walking down the sidewalk.

So we started waving. I said, let's pull over

so they can see us driving. So we pull over. I said, roll down the window so we can say hi.

She looks at me and she says, I thought you said the window was broken. I said, it's okay,

it'll be fine this time. This one time won't hurt anything.

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