In this week, I get the privilege of talking about hopefully introducing you to the word

Shabok. Shabok, which means to address an allowed tone, to shout, to commend, to glory,

praise, still triumph, adulate, which means to adore, laud, soothe. The ones that I'm focusing

on, if you can tell, if you know me, you know that I have a loud tone. I have a loud voice,

and I have some girls in my fresh life group who can resonate with me. I have a loud voice,

and I don't mean to, but like when I'm talking with someone, I get so excited, and then

I won't realize that I'm actually talking and everyone in the room is listening to me because

I was being so loud. Also, my laugh is very loud. I love to laugh, but it is so loud. Sometimes

I find myself laughing, and I'm like, I'm ridiculous. This is way too loud. But I also feel like

I'm a walking contradiction, because I am very loud. I love loud music. I love to dance.

I love that. But then on the other hand, I'm also very sensitive to loud noises. And my husband

will test to this, because he'll start watching something while we're in bed. He said it happened

last night. And I'm just like, I'm so tired, once I get in bed, I'm so tired, but I also just need

it to be quiet. But then he'll watch something, and sometimes it'll be violent, so there'll just be

shooting and holy things that he watches. And I'm like, please, can you turn it down? And this

actually has been something in our marriage that has caused issues, because I'm like, leave

I please, just turn it down. I'm because I'm so frustrated. And then he's like, oh my gosh,

you're so well. And then where it just goes back and forth. And the reality, it's usually

Rick Warren. He usually listens to Rick Warren very loud in our bed, you guys. Okay, TMI, I know,

but he just likes to go to sleep to the sound of his soothing voice. But I don't. Anyways, I am

very sensitive, but I'm also very loud. And I want to kind of focus on these two aspects of Shabbok,

this loud tone, this shout, but also the soothing side of it, because that seems very contradictory to

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