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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giggiel.

There's a sign on the street near where Shelling and I live in Atlanta, Georgia,

and so if you don't know Atlanta too well, it's one of the main corridors of the city.

There's a billboard not too far from where we hang out a lot.

And I think an image of it's going to come up is for a new hospital that's being built

in Atlanta, Georgia, Piedmont, and Hospital. It's a hospital that is a shining light in our city.

My family has a lot of history there, good and bad history there. My grandmother died in that hospital.

My dad nearly died in that hospital. I actually had his life saved there.

But sadly, he spent about six months of the last seven years of his life in that hospital.

I got my broken right leg reset by Dr. James Funk in that hospital and got a cast on for my

toenails all the way up to my hip. That was pretty awesome as the summer of my sixth grade year,

a hundred degrees, and Atlanta, Georgia. I mean, our family's got a lot of history at Piedmont.

And the hospital basically looks kind of like it did, no offense, Piedmont.

When I got my leg reset, when I was 11 years old, the hospital looks a lot like that.

But they're building a brand new Piedmont hospital. And so when you're coming down the road,

there's the billboard and you're like, wow, that looks like actually we're moving in to the 21st

century. This is pretty phenomenal. It's beautiful and sleek and it's tall and it's very cool.

This is amazing. And when you see the billboard, you're like, wow, that's awesome.

But then you learn why the billboard is there about a half a mile later as you go up what we call

in Atlanta heartbreak hill. That's the halfway point of the P-Stree road race. And you're about

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