and Oh, All right. Well, hey, welcome to everybody that is tuning in online. We're so glad that you're here. We're continuing the series therapy where every single week we are going through a new session

if you will for therapy sessions and covering some key issues related to mental health which is an issue facing

our world right now as much as it ever has before and really was an issue

but even before COVID and and COVID-19 has certainly not made things any better

so we are covering for the next handful of weeks what it looks like biblically and what God has to say about mental health.

We're spending the first few weeks on anxiety.

It's just too big of a topic, too big of an issue to do all in one week.

So this is the third week as we walk through covering

therapy and therapy session and third session as it relates to anxiety. Let me

start with a story that will give us some handholds for where we're going.

About 11 years ago I moved to Dallas and I came that will give us some handholds for where we're going.

About 11 years ago I moved to Dallas

and I came on staff at Watermark

and I moved into the back house of a family

that were Watermark members and they basically said,

hey, we have a place that you can stay and live

and it's like free rent

I'm always down with that and I was single and so I moved into their backhouse.

I got here in June but I wasn't starting work until August and I had about a month where I was kind of looking for anything that could be a side job or something to make some money on the side and I had a relationship with a manager at a restaurant.

So I reached out, said hey I don't know if you guys are hiring, I only have about a month, but would love to work there

or looking for something to do for work. And he said, sure, we'll hire you, got hired to be a waiter

for a month. Now I've never been a waiter before and had never really stepped into all the challenges that come with waiting if you have it's not as easy often as they make it look you're juggling tables you're juggling all these different orders and on top of that there was always the challenge that I never mastered of carrying

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