Well, good morning, Crossing. Church, how are you doing?
So good to see you, is it? Good to be in the House of the.
Lord, is it good to be with the people of the Lord?
We live in a crazy world, don't we?
Can I get an Amen? For that, and this is one of the
least crazy places there is. In the world.
It's just like a base and freeze tag.
You know when everybody. 'S chasing you and trying to get
you. Here's a place that God has set
aside where we can. Take off the masks that we can.
Be ourselves that that God can do.
This wonderful work in us that we could never.
Do for ourselves. Alone and I'm just so thankful
for that and thankful to be with you and welcome all of our.
Campuses that are joining with us and we with you today all
over this region both. Inside and online as.
Well, so thankful. For each and every one of you.
So when I ask. You a question that you might
answer in a lot of different ways.
It was a. Question that.
Was posed to us. In music in the 1970s.
So like, I'm a 70s vintage guy when it comes to.
Music And here's a question Who are you?
You know The Who put out an album.
Called the title track. Who are you?
Everybody knows how. What happens after that?
What does it sound like? Yeah, everybody OK.
Yeah, I just wanted to know that there's still people my age
around. Yeah, OK.
Appreciate that SO. I'm asking you that question.
How would you? Answer that question would your
occupation. Provide the answer.
Your teacher, your construction. Worker your restaurant.
Server is that what? Defines who you are.
Maybe you wouldn't use that. Maybe you would use?
Like a relationship to answer the question, does a
relationship? Define you you might say who
you're married to, who your children are, what your parents
names are. I've noticed that sometimes in
my life I'm really not Jerry, I'm Allison's husband.
I'm my. Kids, Dad.
You know, we often define ourselves.
That way by our. Relationships or maybe by our
occupations. But is that really who we are?
And if if you were to look at yourself like it's a total
package, is what? Defines you today the same thing
that defines. You five years ago, or maybe 10
years ago. Think about the Holy Spirit.
I mean some of. You are are.
On the. Newer side of your faith, right?
And you might say something like this if you would have known.
Me a year ago. If you would have known.
Me two years ago you would have known a.
Completely different person than you would know.
Today, because my identity has completely changed.
Since I came into an intimate personal.
Relationship with Jesus Christ. You know that's what God is in
the business. Of.
Doing he changes our identity and it doesn't really happen.
Until we come into this like what I would call a crisis.
Of identity. And then we ask God the
question, Who am I? And then he starts.
Filling in the answer, he starts showing us the answer.
Now we're in a in a new. Series.
It's called Decisions. In the desert, walking with God,
in trial and in triumph. And it's.
Really. About the life.
And the. Experience of Moses and the
Children of Israel. Now, Moses.
Is a person. Who has had extreme conflicts in
understanding his identity and it happened.
Through the various stages of his life.
And then those conflicts in his life would redefine or affect.
His walk with God. And I have to.
Tell you that I personally relate.
To the narrative of Moses on a lot of.
Levels Let me, let me. Flesh that out for you.
I don't want to indulge myself too much, but.
It really will help you to. Understand where I'm coming from
talking about him, many of my friends and colleagues that are
in the same season of life as me as as we're kind of journeying
through ministry like particular ministry and the.
Word that describes this is being.
Thrown around quite a lot. Especially with those of us.
Who are on the tail end of the baby boomer generation in
ministry and navigating that along with local.
Leaders in churches in the word that's used is the word.
Transitioning and for many that walk in my.
Shoes it. Strikes fear into the heart.
That it all of. All that is unknown and all that
is. Unpredictable.
That lies before us. One of my friends, Tim.
Harlow, who just. Transitioned out of a ministry
in Orland Park, IL Chicago area church.
Just about our size. 7-8 thousand people on a weekend.
Live. Was doing a podcast and he.
Was giving his thoughts about this quote UN quote.
Transitioning from the church and.
That he had LED. With his family for over 30.
Years. And as he was sharing his
thoughts about. It he said this, he said that
for years he looked through the lens.
Of being the senior minister of that church.
But now he was coming to grips. With simply being a child of
God, that little phrase that he said.
There it hit me like a freight train.
I remember as soon. As I.
Her finished listening to that. I texted him and I said.
You just. Really messed with me and then I
called him and we had a conversation about it.
And we both have places that like the.
Ozarks and and we we met up and and we had dinner together.
The four of us had dinner. Together, and we talked.
About it even more because it it really, really digs down.
Into this reality because there's something.
Beneath this methodology of transitioning a deeper question
that puts its roots down into my identity, particularly my
identity in Jesus Christ. Let me explain that my.
Story is a pretty. Common story, I think.
I don't think. It's very rare.
Strange, like my testimony is a pretty common testimony.
I was brought up in a Christian home to be a Christian.
And the. Description of my spiritual
walk. I think honestly as I moved into
my teenage years would be a nominal.
Like I was, I was a. Christian when it fit.
I was a Christian. When you know, when it was
comfortable, When I was less comfortable, maybe I was kind of
pushing out on boundaries, but when I.
Experienced God's call. On my life and that happened
when I was 20 years. Old I let go of that secular.
Path that I was on and I dedicated myself to following
Jesus Christ in full time ministry and I have to tell.
You that the space. Between that call and doing
ministry was two weeks long. I was getting ready for my third
year at Indiana. University as a business major.
God. Called me in a.
Ministry. Two weeks ago, I was I was
driving to a Bible. College 10 hours away that I've
never. Been to before.
No one I knew and everything changed it all.
Changed just that quick. My life.
Was reshaped. Completely reshaped.
Around that decision, it affected who I married.
How we chose to raise our children where we lived.
How we used our time, the friends.
That we had. How much income we made, it
affected literally everything, Allison and I.
Discovered that our gifts were suited to both.
Serve and to lead in ministry and it felt like a.
Perfect fit for us. So from that time until today
that. Is how I understood.
My identity in Christ, are you following me?
It came from leading and growing to church, loving and
ministering to her. People forsaking.
The things of this. World.
Filling up the Kingdom of. As God's lost.
Children were finding their way home and Alice and I have done
that. For about 45.
Years and then this word transition became real.
For us. Now Alice and I approached.
This like we've approached try to approach.
Everything in ministry with a method that honors God, inspires
and protects. People and we trusted that God
had always provided a plan for our lives and would continue to
provide that. Direction.
The elements of transition in our context.
They actually worked out very good, which by the way is very
rare. In ministry.
We had a great successor, an incredible successor.
In Clayton Hensel. Can I get an Amen for that?
I remember when I announced it 2 1/2.
Years ago it was. On Thanksgiving weekend and.
Every service. He got a standing ovation.
Wow. And he's done an incredible job.
The leadership of the church, the eldership, and by the way.
Something that many of us may not know, but I do know is that
we have an extremely rare eldership in our church.
Those leaders are. Some of the most.
Selfish God. Honoring men I've ever met or
known in my life and God honors this church on account of their
walk and they unified around him.
The congregation felt and continues to feel comfortable.
All the church metrics, even coming out of COVID were up and
to the right. The church went out of their way
to honor us and me and my family.
And it was. Just perfect.
However, God worked to peel. Back layers in my heart, in our
hearts. To help us.
Discover something more profound that was.
Communicated through the words. Of my friend when he said he was
just trying to be a child of God.
Those words. Haunted me and it forced me to
ask myself if I really knew what it meant.
That's what I told Tim. I go.
I don't know if I really knows what know what it means.
To be a child of God. Who am I when, as Matt Redmond
wrote in the song, the. Heart of worship.
When the music fades and all is stripped away and I simply come
wanting just to bring something that's of.
Worth. That will bless your heart.
What is a child of God? Now, if you would have, if you
would have come up to me and said.
Jerry, are you a child of God? What do you think I would have
said? Well, of course I am.
Of course I'm a. Child of God, what are you?
What are you talking? About but I had.
Defined it internally through all the things I was doing in
serving and leading the church. I understood it in what I
considered were the most effective use of my.
Gifts. But what happens when all the
titles? Are transferred.
What happens when the gift? Set is looking for a place to be
plugged. In, how can I be a?
Child of God. Without all of the things that
I've used. To define.
Me as one. You know what?
I think. I think some of.
You are. Asking the same question in your
context of. Life.
What happens when all those things that I find comfortable
identifying myself as, that kind of connects?
To the idea of a child of God. It it, it, it goes away, what
happens? Then my.
Wife and I began exploring it together and.
Just those 3 little words, child of God.
Became deeply profound to me because it defines who I am.
What am I in that phrase? I'm a child.
Right. Who is my?
What? What is my spiritual
relationship in that phrase? Well, I'm his child.
I'm not just a child of God, I'm his child.
That's who God is. To me, that's the nature.
Of our relationship now let me tell you.
What that teaches me, and I'm going to get to Moses.
Hang on. Because we're talking about his
birth. OK, so.
This is this will connect. First of all, when I say child
of God, it leaves. Absolutely no space for me to be
proud of myself. Or to.
Feel like I've earned or deserve anything.
Is there any space for a little? Child an infant.
Child to be proud. Of him or herself.
Or to feel like they have. Earned anything what God does
when he defines me as a. Child is telling.
Me what my level of expectation is?
The expectation is what? It's low.
Some of you are like well. I'd like to think that I'm more
mature than that. Not me.
I love the idea that the expert expectations are low.
When it comes to an almighty perfect God, can I get an Amen
for? That I love that I mean, God
looks at me and he's. Kind of bless your.
Heart. Pat me on the head, right?
I'm like. I'll take that.
I will take. That secondly, it means that I
have been undeservedly blessed by having the universe.
'S best father. There isn't a better father than
God. Almighty.
A perfect father, Perfect. In all his ways and when I think
about First Corinthians 13. A passage of scripture that we
often. Use in weddings, right?
If I. Speak in the tongues of men and
angels and have not love. I'm a resounding God, right?
And then it goes. Into these like definitions
about. Love.
Love is patient. Love is kind.
It doesn't. Seek itself, right It keeps.
No record of wrongs. There's all these beautiful
things. It also defines God.
To me, because God is the. Perfect embodiment of.
Love, right? So when God looks at me, when
God. Looks at you.
He's you can. Realize that God with.
You is patient. God with you is.
Kind God with you does not seek his own.
Selfish desires God with you that keeps no record of.
Wrongs it, hopes all things, believes all things.
Right. It never fails.
It never God. Never fails.
He believes the best in you. This is your upper story with.
God and that nature, the nature. Of our relationship was birthed
through the blood of Christ, so this is where it.
Begins. This is the bedrock.
Of my identity. Listen to me.
This is the bedrock. Of your identity.
If you're a believer, simply a child of God, whatever God
chooses. To put on top.
Of that, whatever gifts. Talents.
Abilities that he blesses you with with that whatever
opportunities, relationships. He invites you into all of those
things. Or just icing on the cake.
To who you actually are, I think all of us together need to have
a collective sigh of relief. So now let me talk about Moses.
The story of Moses is in the book of Exodus, starts in Exodus
2. But if we're talking about the.
Birth of Moses. A better scripture to.
Begin would be in Hebrews 11 and the 20.
Third verse because it fleshes out.
Some of the nuances of his. Life and it, really.
Isn't talking so much about Moses as is talking about his
parents. Their names were Amram and
Jochebed. This is what it.
Says by faith Moses parents hid him for three months after he
was born. Because they saw he.
Was no ordinary child, and they were not.
Afraid of the. King's edict.
I'll get into this later, but the.
King's edict was that. There was too much Hebrew
overpopulation in Egypt, and of course they.
Were utilizing the Hebrews had for years as.
Slaves and. They decided to kill.
All the male children that were being born and Moses was one of
those children that was born in or so it was an infanticide is
what it was in order. To stop the.
Overpopulation of these Hebrews. But if you take that verse
apart, this is what I see. He's only three months.
Old So what? Has Moses shown you about
himself? Like.
I'm three months. I'm three months old.
You know nothing. What he what?
You know. His parents saw that he was.
No ordinary child. Now that sounds a.
Little arrogant or prideful? Unless you're a parent.
Because that's the way all parents are, right?
Oh, they've. Been a lot of nice looking
babies. But.
This one mine. Come on now.
Or that's my grandson, that's my granddaughter, that's my child.
Now that is the most beautiful baby I've ever seen.
Isn't that the way it is? When it comes to our own
children. So why shouldn't it be that way
when it comes to how God? Feels about his children.
And you if you've come into an intimate personal.
Relationship with Jesus Christ are. 1.
Of his children. Means a.
Lot to be a child of God. Moses really wasn't an ordinary
child because. God had established a.
Plan for his life and that plan for Moses life would be.
That he would deliver the people of Israel out of their.
Bondage. Of.
Over 400 years and there was no one, including Moses parents who
could have known that. Only God would have known that
when God created Moses in the womb of his mother, he placed in
him. All of the raw material that was
needed to be exactly what. God intended for him to be.
God had a. Chosen identity for Moses.
And a specific. Plan for his life.
But it was up. To Moses to come into a
relationship with. God so that God could release
the potential of his life. Into the world.
Why is that important? Because.
God has a plan. For your life and we don't get.
To punt. And say, well, yeah, God.
Has a general plan for the. Life of.
All of us in humanity. What the Bible teaches us that
is that God has a specific. Plan for your life.
I mean, it's obvious. From example that God.
Had a. Specific plan for Moses's.
Life, but when God created you. In your mother's womb, listen to
me. He put all the raw material
there. Is.
Needed for you to accomplish what He has prepared for you.
It's already there. It was there the before you were
born. How do I know that Ephesians
210? The Apostle Paul teaches me this
for. We are His workmanship, created
in Christ. Jesus to do good works, listen
Which? God prepared in advance.
For us to do that's specific. That means that God has a
specific. Plan for your.
Life and David the. King and the Prophet.
Knew this as well. In Psalm 139, when he said this
about himself. He said all of the days.
Ordained for me. Were written in your book
before. One of them came to be.
God knows His plan for you, and He wants you to experience those
plans. That's his upper story.
Plan but. There is a big.
Problem. And the big problem is you me.
Why? Well, because I have my own.
I've got my own plans. I've got my own.
Hopes I I. Have my own dreams.
I want things on my own terms. Guess who else?
Was like that, that little baby. Moses, Moses.
Life can be broken. Down into. 340 year periods.
First 40 years. Is from his birth until the time
he killed an Egyptian, he murdered an Egyptian.
The 2nd 40 years is marked. From that time that.
He murdered the Egyptian. And ran away in the Midian.
Until he was. On his knees at the burning.
Bush. He was 80.
When that happened and the third component of his.
Life. Was when he went from the
burning Bush. To Egypt and told.
Pharaoh, let my. People go the plagues.
And then leading the nation of. Israel out of.
Bondage into freedom. Until he died.
At 120 now, our journey begins with him in Exodus.
Two, I've already told you that Pharaoh was.
Killing all the male. Hebrew babies because he feared
Hebrew population. Moses should have been killed in
that experience, that thing that happened, and he.
Escaped death because his. Mother and his father.
And you? Recall this from Hebrews 11 did
not fear the King's. Edict.
They had courage. Knew that he was no ordinary
child and she made a. Tar covered basket out of reeds
placed her precious. Moses in it and sent him down
the Nile River. Moms.
Who would do that? I mean, I, I understand that you
know you're in a time of. Crisis.
But how hard would it be to actually place your baby?
In a basket. Nile rivers, not a small river.
I mean, Jochebed was. Obviously a woman of.
Incredible faith in God to believe that God.
Would be able to manage that. Pharaoh's daughter.
Found him as she was bathing in the Nile and called him Moses.
That's where he got his name because it means to be drawn out
of the water. See Moses Life.
Was being shaped already by God's.
Plan and he grew up in the. Palace of the King of Egypt, God
provided. Moses listen with his own mother
to nurse him, raise him and teach him as a youngster and yet
when he became of age, knowing that his lineage.
Was Hebrew. He became zealous for that
heritage in his first. 40 years Moses was trying to establish
his own. Identity and by the way, that.
Experiment crashed and burned, and that's what ended.
The 1st 40 years. Of his 120 year life.
Even though God. Had a plan.
For his life, he was really. More interested in his own plan
and we see the same tendencies in.
Ourselves, that Moses did we try to establish.
Our own identity in my. Case I was.
Following my own plan when God called me into ministry.
In fact, as Allison and I were reflecting on this.
A couple of weeks ago, he had already called.
Me into many things. And you know what?
God has already called. You into many things.
God called me to be a. Son.
He when he gave. Me, a mother and a father.
He called me to be a. Son, how was I?
Doing in that calling. And I was actually.
Asking Allison that question, what kind of a dad, what kind of
a son was I to my mom and dad, both of my my mother and father
I've gone to. Glory, but just evaluating.
That was IA good son. Was I there for them when they
when they were in need? How did I do?
As a son. He also called me as a brother.
I was the last of six kids. I had four sisters.
And a brother and. So how did I do?
With my siblings the. The people that I, I grew up
with, you know, the Bible says that.
A person who doesn't provide for his family especially.
His immediate family is. Worse than an unbeliever?
It's a calling. I was called to be a son.
I was called to be a brother from the day I was born.
Then he called. Me to be a.
Husband when I chose to marry my wife.
Then he called. Me as a father, when we had.
Children. I was all of.
Those things. Those were all.
Callings being a husband and a. Father happened under the.
Umbrella of my ministerial. Calling but I I was.
Learning that that. Calling was wider than just what
I was. Doing for a living?
Do you understand? What I was doing in ministry.
See one thing I learned about ministry over all?
Those 45 years. Is that sometimes the God-given
relationships can go on a back burner.
Because there is. All these ministry needs
transition took some things out of our hands.
But there was still plenty there.
When God called. Moses to deliver Israel.
He was already a. Son he was.
Already a brother, he was already a husband and he was
already a father at the calling that.
Happened at the burning Bush when he was 80.
Moses has given all. These excuses to God, he's like.
I mean, he has been whittled down.
We're going to go into. This next week, but.
He was. He had been whittled down.
Because all his pride. And all of his arrogance and all
the things that. That that he was using to.
Shape his own identity. Had been stripped away and he's
given God all these. Excuses like I'm.
Slow of speech. Slow of tongue, he, I mean he
finally, you know. When he says that to God, you
know what God? Says back to him when he says
I'm slow of. Speech, God says.
Who made your mouth? I mean, he literally says that
to him. Like I know what I put inside
you. I know the raw material that's
in there. You have everything you need
right now. But he didn't think so.
And then he says this at the burning Bush.
He says to Moses. What is that?
In your hand. Do you know what that was?
It was a shepherd's staff. Because for the last 40 years
Moses has been a shepherd, right?
What is that? In your hand.
What's a shepherd's staff? OK.
Throw it down on onto the sand. So Moses.
Throws Shepherd's staff. Down onto the sand and what
happens? It becomes a snake.
Then God tells him to pick the. Snake up by the tail.
Anybody see a red flag? There, you don't.
Ever. Pick a snake up by the tail.
It's the opposite of what you're supposed to do.
And yet God told him so when he picks it up by the.
Tape because you know you want to get right behind the head,
right? He picks it up by the.
Tail becomes the staff again. You know God.
Does a lot with that staff, that staff.
In Moses his hand. Touches the red the.
The Nile River and what happens? Everything turns to blood,
right? God has that staff.
In Moses his hand. And he stretches it out.
Over the Red Sea and what does it do One of my.
Wife's favorite? Songs ever is an old old hymn
called Little as Much, and the words are little as much.
If God is in it, labor not. For wealth or.
Fame. There's a crown and you can win
it if you go in Jesus name. It was just a.
Stick in this man's hand. But it's not just a stick.
If God placed. It there in your hand so I want
to give you 3. Ways that you can.
Kind of live this out. Things that I'm learning right
now that. You can use to live this out.
OK. What I'd like for you to do is
I'd like for you to ask. Yourself.
The question that God asks Moses what is that in my hand?
What are the things that God. I mean, there's a lot of.
Things right now that. You're regretting you're.
Thinking about, man, I had this opportunity.
I had that opportunity. I was in this relationship and
I've blown all this stuff, made all this mess up.
You're no different than Moses. He had messed everything up too,
right? But Moses is.
Asked by God. What is that in your hand?
I'm asking you what is in your hand right now?
Whatever God has placed in. Your hand right now.
You should do your very best to honor God through it.
These are things that God. Has not released you.
From you need to. Be the best steward of what you
have before you start asking God to.
Fill your hand with new things. See, a lot of us, we kind of.
Tend to want to neglect those. Things and say, well God, I need
you to. Call me to something cooler.
Call me to something. Sexier and God.
Is going hold on, What is that in your hand?
Be faithful in the little things, he says, and then I will
give you. Greater things.
Number one. Number two.
Look where God is working. And go and join him there.
I don't know what. It is about us.
As human beings, it. Seems like we're always still.
Trying to earn something from God.
We're still trying to deserve something from God.
Because we keep forgetting that we're a child of God.
And that's the. Bedrock of our identity.
What we have to do is look where God is working.
And go and join him there. If you're if you want to.
If you want to put something on X.
This is it ready. Proximity to God is more
important than productivity for God.
Proximity to God is more important than productivity for
God. And I guarantee you if you're in
proximity. To.
God, he'll make you. Productive, but it is.
About being with him. 1st. And the other things will happen
because. At the basis of who you are.
That he intended and he designed you.
To be you're a child of God. And finally understand that the.
Same God who has. Been.
Faithful will be faithful. He will continue.
To call you to new. Things even if.
You have to set aside old. Ones.
Look. Up look to him because he knows
what is. Best.
For you, we're moving to a time of decision.
Let me ask. You a question.
Is the best thing that you could do right now.
To get your life. Straightened out, I bet some of
you. Just reacted to that.
By going well of. Course the best thing that I.
Could do right now is to get my life straightened out.
If that's what you. Think you completely missed
everything I just preached. Because the best.
Thing that could happen to you right now.
Is that you would draw closer to your heavenly Father through
Jesus Christ because proximity is.
More important than? Productivity.
He'll take care of the productivity because he knows
the. Plan.
You may not even have a clue of what God's plan is.
You may not have. A clue of how God.
Intended to implement your. Gifts.
Into your life. Integrate them into your life
and into the world around. You may not have any idea of
that, and you're never going to know that as long as you're
trying to write your own. Story So if you're trying to
take control of your life and say.
I'm going to get. All this fixed and if I get all
this fixed. Well then maybe I'll be a.
Usable tool. In the hand of God.
You've got it A. 180° wrong. What you.
Do what I do is we come to God. The same way that Matt Redman
said it in that song, when the music fades and all is stripped
away and I simply come longing just to bring something that's
of. Worth that'll bless your the
heart of worship. Is to understand yourself as a.
Child of God to exhale. And relax into the.
Reality of that? And then just look for him, and
when you see him, run to him. Some of you here.
Have never come in to an intimate.
Personal relationship with Jesus.
Christ, you're still trying to impress God or impress the
people around you or impress yourself, and there needs to
come a time. And hopefully it won't take 40
years like it did. For Moses.
Because it took him 40 years to figure that out and just say I.
Surrender maybe? Some of you today will go over
by that baptistery. There'll be somebody over there.
And say I. Just I.
Just want to submit. Myself to the Lord I.
Just want to draw near to the Lord, you know, Maybe somebody.
Today will be. Baptized in that water.
You talk about. Proximity.
When you go down in that water, do you know what you're doing?
You're uniting with his son. Jesus Christ, in his death his.
Burial and his resurrection. That's what the Apostle Paul
said in. Romans chapter 6 that as you go
down in that water, you're dying with Christ.
You're being buried with Christ. You're being raised to.
Walk in newness of life. You know what that is for a non
believer, for a non Christian in this room or online.
It is the closest you will ever. Get in proximity to Jesus
because you're you not. It's like a time machine.
It's like you're going back 2. 1000.
Years to the very moment. That he paid your price and set
you free. For some of us.
Who are already believers that proximity.
Is going to happen a little bit later in the service.
When we take communion, we remember the body and the.
Blood of the Lord who paid our price.
So we have an opportunity to remember him and to join with
him. That's proximity.
That's where he's at. If you've never made that
decision, go over there and talk to someone and pray with some
share with someone. God will do something amazing
that you could never have done. And then there's many of.
Us here today. We are believers in Christ like.
I would have told you if you would ask me, are you a child of
God? I would say, yeah, I'm a child
of God. But I'm sometimes burdened with
a head full of bad wiring. I still think I.
I have to earn it. I still think that I have to.
Be worthy in some way. I I still think that.
Even though God might pay 70% of the.
Bill, I still need to pay. 30% of it, you know what I mean, and
I just need to come to him and recognize what he's telling me.
This is who you are, Jerry, just who you are, brother and sister.
Lay it down. Would you?
Stand with me. These steps are open.
For you to come forward, get down on.
Your knees. And tell.
The Lord I. Present myself to you.
As nothing. More.
Or nothing less. Than a child of God pray with me
heavenly. Father in.
Jesus name please take these next.
Moments. I know your Holy Spirit is here.
I know your angels are protecting.
The space and I, I just pray in this place of peace.
That is overseen by the Prince of Peace, that your peace would
rule in our hearts. As we set aside.
The turmoil as we set aside, the confusion as we.
Set aside the. Complexity of all the things
that we. Think are so important and
simply be. Who you have?
Called us to be your children. In Jesus.
Name. Amen.