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conference tab. I was sitting on the couch yesterday and Layla sent me this photo that she had found

online and it was essentially a graph that said 90% of the time that you will spend with your kids

happens within the first 18 years.

And then the graph just showed like a rapid decline.

Once your kids leave the house, your actual physical time with them diminishes rapidly.

Which, you know, I'm just trying to sit there and like watch the Super Bowl.

And now she's getting me all teary-eyed. Obviously, this isn't like a hard scientific number, but we can all

easily figure out that when your kids leave the house, your ability to disciple them, to guide them,

to model things for them, to do hands-on teaching, like all of that is going to go away rapidly,

significantly diminish.

So I was trying to think about where are the places that discipleship happens most with my kids.

And I think the car is one of them, drives to school and activities and road trips.

All of that provides great discipleship experience, although oftentimes it's chaotic and loud.

But I think the most obvious place that discipleship happens

is in your home. It's in the four walls that you eat and sleep, get ready, laugh. All of it happens

within these walls. And so something I've been praying, not even intentionally, like as we've

been praying around the table, as I've been praying with the kids, these words just kind of keep

coming out of my mouth. Again, I'm not intentionally thinking about it, but I just noticed myself praying this often. God, would your glory fill this house? Would your presence fill this house? Would there be nothing in this house that is not of you? And so today's episode, I just want to be like really, really practical here. This will likely be an episode that you can come back to and kind of listen

to slowly because I want to give you an exercise that you can do hopefully sometime in this coming

week. My challenge to you is to find a time where you can have alone time in the house. So

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