Hello everyone welcome to follow him favorites this year we are telling a single story that goes with each week's lesson.

John we're in second nefai, three, four, and five,

and I thought of a story I might tell you. You've probably heard me tell this story before,

so if I forget anything, let me know. Sounds good.

Most people who listen to our podcast know that both of our fathers have passed away.

Your father passed away a years ago and mine pretty recently just a couple of years ago.

Well, when my father passed away a couple

of days later, I remember being very frustrated. I kind of told the Lord like, hey, I would like a little notice

when someone's going to die because we

figured we had more time, but didn't end up being that way. I was pretty frustrated with the Lord

and I was letting him know that I was frustrated with how things had played out. But then an image, a memory,

came to my mind of my dad and I playing golf. My dad was a golf professional and we played a lot of golf growing up.

Well, we're playing this one hole that we had played many, many times and there's this green.

Those of you who don't golf, you might have to ask someone about what a green is, but it's where you putt the ball. You've probably seen this before.

In the middle of this green is this massive hill that goes down, so you can either be on the upper part of the green

or the lower part of the green but between those two is a is a big hill and

anytime you land on the top you put it and it just races right off the front because the hill is so steep it just

blo right off the front and I go up to see where I am on the on the green and I'm going to try to

make a birdie putt and my ball is up on that second level, the higher level, and I've been there so many times and I knew what was going to happen. I was going to put it slow as I possibly could. it was going to hit that hill and just fly off like a rocket.

It was going to go straight over the cup, even if I hit it right at the cup.

Golf balls defy the law of physics, John. They go straight over the cup. So I lined up to do it and my dad was just he and I. He said,

hold on a second, hold on. What if we tried it, putting it towards me?

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