You're going to do. Well, geeings and welcome to the dividing line. I was, I mean just literally as the music was playing,

got a text from my wife and we want to extend our condolences to the Escobito family.

Simon Escobito, the younger, has been a part of the ministry for many, many years, and some of his articles are on the website, if you've benefited from those.

His dad fell yesterday and I don't know all the details but the only

thing I could figure I sort of assume is he hit his head probably had some type of

fraction of skull, something like that, I would imagine. But it was on life support last night, and so he passed away about half an hour ago,

and so our condolences to family.

Obviously, believers, known them for years.

My daughter was particularly,

he and Summer had a neat relationship and so that's you know lived a good

long life and testimony to the Lord and there's such a vast difference between being

facing those issues as a believer and not, believe me, having worked as a hospital chaplain for years, I can tell you

there is a vast, vast, vast difference. So we are thankful for the Lord's mercy in his life and

drawing him to himself and the testimony that he has had for many many years as a faithful member of the Phoenix Performed Baptist Church where I was for 29 and a half years and so we'll pray for the family as they deal with this this passing and you know I lost my dad

two and a half years ago now. So coming up on on three years and it's always, you know, a reminder of your own mortality.

If you've lived as long as I have you've already lived a good long life and I'd like to live longer but you know what?

When I was at that hospital know what?

When I was at that hospital, I remember walking into the room of a 16-year-old stomach cancer patient.

And he didn't live more than about two weeks after that.

And I was only 30-something at the time.

I remember just thinking to myself, I already lived twice as long as he's going to live.

And I remember asking... twice as long as he's going to live.

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