There's a story of the woman at the Super Bowl with an empty seat next door.

And the guy in the next seat over was kind of shocked to see an empty seat at the Super Bowl.

And so he said, man, do you know whose seat that is?

Oh, that's my husband's seat.

And oh, where is he?

And he passed away.

And he said, oh, I'm so sorry.

But the curiosity kind of got there.

Didn't you have any family member, you know,

that could come and take the seat?

She said, yeah, well, why didn't they come and take it?

She said, beats me.

They insisted on going to the funeral instead.

Oh, ouch. I'm going to the funeral instead.

Ooh, ouch.

Priorities can very easily be put out of whack if you're not careful in life.

It's amazing how we can do that to ourselves. We get our priorities tweaked and

twisted and things that we think are so important. And sometimes it's helpful to step back and say,

Lord, would you reprioritize our lives? And that's really what the book of Haggai is about.

The children of Israel had lost sight of the proper priorities. And so the prophet

Haggai comes along with sort of a word to the wise and a challenge to the people. And it had to

do, as we learned on Sunday, if you missed Sunday, we kind of did really, whether we know it or not,

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