Hey Bridgetown Family, our annual Holy Spirit Conference is coming up at the end of this month.

We're so expecting for what God's going to do during this sacred time.

And there's still time to register to join us in person for just a hundred dollars.

You can do that at Holy Spiritco.me.

And if you're not able to join us in person, you can join us via live stream for just 25 bucks. The live

stream of course would allow you access to all of our sessions live, but you

could also watch them subsequently after the fact if that is more helpful to you.

However you're able to, we really hope that you'll join us. And the Has anyone seen the movie past lives? Wow, what a film. If it loses best picture to some Marvel remake or something like that, I'm honestly going to lose what little faith in Hollywood I've still got left.

Anyway, there's this one scene in past lives where a married couple is lying in

bed in their Manhattan apartment and he's a Jewish guy from the city. She is a

Korean-born immigrant who has lived in the state since she was 12 years old and she speaks English

most of the time except when she's talking to her mom when she returns to the

Korean of her childhood. She's lived in America now longer than South Korea and she's more

Western than she is Eastern in many ways. But as her husband explains in this scene, she

sometimes talks in her sleep, and when she does, it's

always in Korean. She dreams in her first language. When her mind is most free,

when it can roam and imagine,'s always in her mother tongue.

Eugene Peterson calls prayer the mother tongue of the spiritual life.

When we are reborn into full life by the grace of God, we learn a new language,

prayer, a way of communication with God that's just as natural as breathing, it's as unconscious

as dreaming as we walk behind Jesus.

And like our mother tongue, no matter who we become or what twists and turns are taken in our spiritual life,

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