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Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess. I've recorded this one like five times.

And so I hope this is going to be the one. And so I'm praying that Holy Spirit you would just show up through these few minutes and speak through me and speak to the people listening because this has been a really heavy couple weeks. And so I pray, Lord, that they will just feel you, hear you, and that you will do your thing through a little thing called a podcast where we want to honor and glorify you through these words, through your word, and through praying for our kids. But this week, we're going to pray through Jacob and Genesis. And we're going to pray about Jacob in Genesis. And we're going to pray about perseverance in faith for us and for our kids. But up front, a couple funny things and then some hard things. The first funny thing is that y'all, I went to the Auburn game this past weekend when I'm recording this. It was family weekend, got to see Ella, get my arms around her. She's doing so great. We went to a football game. And y'all, it was like sitting on the surface of the sun. It was 90-something degrees. And a couple things. One, I fell, I sure did fall. I was in the end zone

across from the student section on basically the top row, row 61. And so if you saw me,

I need the footage. And it's okay if you're laughing right now. It wasn't funny in the moment,

but I literally was getting dizzy going up so high and like questioning why I got the cheap

ticket and not, I don't know, an air-conditioned sweet ticket, but I fell and I'm okay, but I'm so glad that Ellen and Ron didn't see because they would have been cackling and my friends would have been cackling. And then the second thing is, y'all, I left the game. It was so hot and I don't know if that call makes me a fair weather fan, but I get so triggered by heat. I'm going to start having an anxiety attack. My friends know this. And it triggers a migraine. And so we got up there after my fall, start watching the eagle fly in. I watched the pregame band. I'm loving life. I can't believe I'm sitting next to my daughter who's at Auburn. And I look over at them and they said, you're leaving, aren't you? I'm like, I am, and I love you, and I'm leaving. And I'm so glad I did because I watched it in the air in the student center, and I was able to participate in the rest of the day because I wasn't flattened out with the migraine. And so kind of funny, kind of hard, but that was my weekend. And again, if you're listening to this, it was probably the last weekend. My time gets all messed up on these podcasts.

But on a more song, that was my weekend. And again, if you're listening to this, it was probably the last weekend.

My time gets all messed up on these podcasts. But on a more somber note, as we're, as I'm recording

this, we just came off of a really hard week with the death and the assassination of Charlie Kirk,

a Ukrainian girl being stabbed in Charlotte, a school shooting in Colorado. And I know if you're like

me, you feel so heavy.

It's like as a body of believers, like your heart just aches. And I felt the same way. I almost felt

sick. The whole week after the Camp Mystic Girls dies is just like you're aching in line with

these other parents. And we're aching as believers to say like, Lord, this feels dark and evil

and it feels scary. And all I can say to us is that we have hope in Jesus. And I know there's a lot

that could be said about this. But it makes me have, I don't know, even more motivation and fire to do

what we're doing here, to prioritize faith for us personally, but us as a family, and to pray

for our kids to say, like, Lord, no matter what's going on in the world, we put our hope in you.

This is the firm foundation in the midst of a world that is circling and floundering and really hard.

And so I pray that at some point this week that we will put our eyes to Jesus,

that we will get in our Bibles, that we will turn off our phones, and that we will just

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