Hey everyone, John here. I am at a park down the street from my house. Park that I like to come at night sometimes. It's really peaceful here and think and talk and pray.

And I wanted to just share an update with those who are interested in kind of what's going on with me personally.

So if you're someone who watches the channel or listens to the podcast for content,

I don't really have a lot of content,

though I will be sharing some of the lessons I'm learning

through what's really one of the hardest times of my life and I just want to start off by saying

how much I appreciate all the the patrons out there who have

continued giving to what I do and all of you out there who listen and pray and just send encouraging comments and support.

So I appreciate that.

Some of you know, some of you don't, but it's been a rough week and it really

has kind of started last week with carpenter ants had eaten out half my

closet and there was some water damage because of it and so I'm just now starting to finish that project up, but I had to rebuild half the, it was a walking

closet attached to my kitchen.

And I think it was the very next day I found out that one of,

really a family friend but more like family. We were kind of adopted by this elderly woman. We called her grandma

Galately. Her name was Mary Galately. I found out she passed away and it's a sweet thing in a way because she was older.

She was she was actually a month shy of 100 and had a really long full life and I wrote a tribute to her that I posted on

different social media platforms this afternoon. It's short, but I basically just say

that we called her grandma because I grew up 3,000 miles away from my grandparents on both sides.

And I didn't know growing up what it was like to have my grandparents there for birthdays and stuff.

And I love my grandparents. I mean, we travel back and we try to get in, you know, in a few weeks or a month, what we could, you know, what we would normally do in a whole year but we kept in touch on the

phone and stuff but but this elderly lady at my church pianist she let us call her

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