Two, one, go.

All right, guys, excited to jump back in with you.

I just got back from some vacation time with my kids, took them to the old Great

Wolf Lodge. It was exhausting need a vacation from that vacation. But had some thoughts, processing

some things in life, and just kind of wanted to take you guys along my journey. I've shared with

you guys quite a bit so far about wrestling through kind of depression, anxiety,

what sometimes is called the dark night of the soul or the wilderness in the Christian life.

And for me, I am just in this season again where I'm kind of working through these moments of real anxiety,

real, um, you know, sometimes it's called looping, where you're just working through the same

thought patterns over and over and kind of obsessing, um, running around this track with,

with patterns of fear fear anxiety or frustration with

myself and I'm really trying to process and but man I'm in the middle of that and I've got

my kids at the at the water park and all of my kids are so timid and it's just not

naturally adventurous.

They got that from their mom.

And I have a four-year-old who's going to turn five this month.

That's why we went to the water park.

All my, like three of our kids have birthdays in February.

And so I have a four-year-old who stayed in the baby section for the first couple days and I kept trying to talk

him into going kind of moving up to the next section and going down the water slides that were more

fit for his age and size and probably for two days in a row I'd take him to the top of a slide that

was really appropriate for him and try to talk him into going down

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