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Hey guys, good morning. It is Friday. It is January 9th, 2026. Time marches on. Good morning, good morning.

I hope everybody's looking forward to a fantastic day and a great weekend as well. Hopefully you're going to be able to find a place

of rest or at least carve out some time for yourself to do that no matter what day it is

thank you to all the well-wishers by the way welcome to before the noise my name is chan prether

if you're new here these are my devotional thoughts and folks like to sit in with me. I guess they like it. I don't know. I like it when they do.

Thank you for the thoughts and prayers. Everybody that sent my way, my mother's memorial service

yesterday or funeral service was just absolutely couldn't have gone any better. My mother would have

been happy with just not only the things that were said and sung,

but just the people that were there, so many family and friends. And it was a great reunion.

One of the things that I said at this service yesterday was it's a shame that we need events

like funerals to bring us back together for reunions, but even more importantly,

it's a shame that we wait until someone has passed before we eulogize them. The word eulogy

comes from good words in the Greek language. We really should say good words to each other

while we have an opportunity for the person to hear

them, right? So we shouldn't wait till our funerals or till somebody's funeral in order to eulogize them.

And so I encourage you to find an opportunity today to say good words to people.

Say good things to people.

Sometimes it's hard in our sarcastic attitudes and our cynical mindsets to find the good words to say.

But can I just say good things about you for a minute?

You guys have blessed me beyond measure.

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