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Trying to get better at praying, which means, by the way, by trying to get better, I'm trying to be more consistently bringing God to the forefront of my mind and talking with them and be trying to be more and more honest when I do talk to them.

So I have a couple things now that I want.

And I'm telling them I want these things. It's for other people.

But I want these things. And I'm saying stuff like, I've seen

you do this for other people. Yeah, that's good. You could do this for this person. Couldn't you?

I mean, I know you can. Why not? I heard a story about somebody else. That exact thing happened.

Yeah. So why not? But I feel like that's okay. I'm not being flippant.

I'm just going, it's like Moses reminding God, like, hey, you have your reputation to protect,

and you can do this and you can do, like, I think it matters.

So the greatest teacher in the history of humanity is Jesus.

He knows how we're made.

He's brilliant.

He tells stories all the time, which makes me think that a great teacher now, that's what you would do, right?

We've studied his way of doing it.

Apparently stories meant so much to him, as a matter of fact.

And I think there's, I think this is legit.

I was reading a scholar talking about this.

Like, in Matthew 16, he's in Cesarea Philippi, and he makes a point that's based on where they are.

And you can read it yourself.

Okay.

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