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This week I have interacted with many of you that are going through hardship, affliction, pain and hurt. I have had folks weep in my office this week sharing the loss of deep grieving situations. Promises broken, expectations shattered, words that cut.

My wife and I are coming up on our anniversary. To get you in the ballpark, we have been married to each other for a larger portion of our lives than the portion we have not been married to each other. It’s hard to grasp. I still feel like a kid sometimes. Time moves so quickly.

I want to pass along the single best piece of advice I have received to this point in my life. At the time when this advice landed on me as a heavy and well-struck blow, it would be generous to say that my faith was a smoldering wick (Isaiah 42:3). I’m not totally sure there was any spark of faith at all.

The Holy Spirit is sometimes an under-appreciated member of the Trinity that occupies a few catchphrases in our prayers but otherwise is given little thought. There are at least a couple of reasons. First, it is the Holy Spirit’s very nature and role to be deferential to God the Father and the Son.

RING RING RING!!! The shrill and piercing sound of the alarm clock now awakens us with the start of school, and a much earlier start to the day than we had all summer. And, if we are honest, the alarm clock doesn’t just wake us up to start a new day.