I'm calling unshackled spirit.

Unshackled spirit.

This is sort of my preparation for us all as we get ready to take this sacrificial stretch step of generosity.

You can't just jump into stuff like that.

A good trainer will not let you just begin a hard workout

without stretching some stuff out,

getting on that foam roller a little bit.

So if you have a Bible, Acts Chapter 5 is going to be our foam roller.

This is going to limber us up.

This is our spiritual calisthenics, getting us ready for what we believe that God is going to do through us all in this moment.

Jenny and I had the chance recently to take a trip to California and we were there for

Thanksgiving and we got to introduce Lennox to his great

grandfather whose wife who just recently passed away and Lennox had never got to

meet him. So from six feet away we were spatially spread out across the the patio. We got to it was pretty special to see four generations there in that moment

The problem with being in California and every I've all the love in the world for every one of you in California is that right now you can't go in restaurants

You can't you can't eat in restaurants you can only order in restaurants but then they all have set up a little like on the on the

curb couple tables or they've been very creative it's unbelievable to see the amount

of I mean if those two were like deliberating when they were buying their

restaurant space do we have a patio do we not have a patio you're kicking yourself if you went without the patio in these days but

but it's incredible to see how restaurants have have figured this all out and and and every morning on this trip I would wake up before my family because

something's wrong with me and even without an alarm clock set I wake up at 6 o'clock and

if I try and go back to sleep it doesn't work so I would just

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