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Hey everybody, it's Danny, I want to say thank you for tuning in to the Heart Way podcast and I want to give a special thanks to those of you who are tuning in from really all over the world. We're so grateful that you are a part of our community and that you listen in on an ongoing basis. If you've been encouraged by what you've heard, I want to ask you to share this with a friend. You never know the impact that one of these messages can have in another person's life. And if you yourself have been impacted and you'd like to continue to partner with us to keep this work going, check us out at heartwaychurch.com slash give. Every dollar that you give goes a really long way towards helping us do what it is that we do. Well we love you, really hope you enjoy the podcast. Well good morning everybody. Hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas, so glad to see each and every one of you here. You know I had this incredible God moment just now after the first service. There was a gentleman who came up to me and he is on a journey of recovery and afterwards he came up to me and he said, Danny you know I'm going back home soon and you know I feel like I'm walking into a very embarrassing situation and I said well hold on a second, why is it embarrassing? And he said well because you know I care about what other people think and obviously he being in recovery and I'm sure there's been a lot of promises that have been made, I'm going to change, I'm going to get better and then you just kind of slip back into your old ways and he said I'm embarrassed and he said I care about what other people think about me and I said that, that right there, that's the problem and I said there's no shame in your journey, there's no guilt that you need to associate with any of this, all of us are just figuring it out together and I said the gift you need to give yourself right now is love and acceptance, love and acceptance and so I don't know who needs that word or message today but if you have begun to believe the lie that you are the mistakes that you make and that you are what other people say about you, I just want to remind you that you are loved and that you belong and that there's nothing wrong with you, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you and so in this moment I want to invite all of us into a time of centering prayer and this is a moment where all of us together as a community just get to refresh ourselves by resting in the presence of God, everything about our culture is always telling us to do more, work more, earn more, accomplish more, more, more, more, more, more and it's so easy to get caught up in that and forget that what you have is already enough. Everything you need you already possess because God is everything you need and God is in you and God is with you and so this moment is about you tapping into the presence and power of God within, we're quieting our mind so that our soul can begin to speak and so I want to invite you in this moment just to close your eyes and get comfortable in your chair if you'd like to put your hands facing down on your knees you can do that to cultivate a sense of groundedness or if you'd like to have your palms facing up you can also do that as a sign of your openness and receptivity in this moment. Begin to slow down here, bring your attention to your breath, the Spirit of God is the breath of God, your breath is the very life force of divinity within you. The breath has always been a tool that has been used by spiritual practitioners to bring themselves back to the present moment because we cannot breathe in the past and we cannot breathe in the future, we can only breathe now. Allow yourself to be here now because now is all there ever is. Notice your thoughts, sensations, feelings, none of those things are who you are, you are the awareness behind your thoughts, you are the observer of your thoughts and in this state of peace and inner calm you discover who you really are. Who are you without your reactions? Who are you without your negativity? Who are you without your judgment? You are love. Beneath all of our thoughts and perceptions there's always this flowing stream of love and peace and that is the nature of God within you. God and your true self are the same thing. You are not separate from God, God is not separate from you. In God we live and move and have our being and this is the practice throughout all of life. It's constantly bringing ourself back to this space. Learn how to make your heart your monastery, your heart is your temple. You can always find God by going within. With a calm mind you find clarity and you can begin to see life for what it really is, life the way God has revealed it to be. All of it is graced, all of it a gift. Nothing else matters in this moment. Be reminded in this moment that you are a beloved child of God. The Spirit of God is within you, the light of the world is within you, peace is within you, joy is within you. It's just a matter of letting go. The thought arises, you see it and you let it go. We don't resist our thoughts, that creates inner conflict within ourselves but instead we welcome every thought. And in this same way we welcome and embrace all of life, the good, the bad, the ups, the downs. All of it is embraced. Your mind does not have room for that which is considered to be difficult or negative or challenging but your heart, your heart can receive all of it. Let's take a few moments here to enter into a wordless communion with God. Let's take one last inhale together and then release. You can gently begin to open up your eyes and may grace and peace be with each and every one of you this morning. Amen. Good morning, Harway. How are you guys doing? You guys had your cup coffee? Are you awake? All right, listen, we're gonna, we need some energy. It's the last service. I need to be able to feed off your energy so on the count of three we're gonna have everybody from here, right here. I want you guys to scream out heart and from here over you guys are gonna say way. We're gonna do it a couple times. It helps me, all right? This ain't about you. The message is for you and me too but this part is about me right now, all right? You guys can work with me on that? All right, here we go. So right here over and I'm talking about even back there. I need you guys to listen. You guys see me over there? You guys ready? All right, here we go. All right, on the count of three you guys were yelling heart and over here you guys are yelling way, all right? One, two, three. All right, all right, all right. I feel so much better. All right, guys, I'm Cliff. If you guys don't know, I have the wonderful privilege of being one of the servant leaders here and I do not take that for granted. Being able to come up here and be able to teach is a prayer answered to be able to just, you know, I always pray to be able to impact people's lives in a positive way. I pray that last year because last year I gave the last message of the year. I hope that that message helped you to be able to navigate through 2019 and likewise this one here. I hope that this one will help you to be able to navigate through that because we're closing out a decade, right? I know, I feel a little. older. But I still look good. I look good. I look good. So, we're getting ready to go into a new decade. And today, I want to talk with you guys about the currency of time. The currency of time. You see, because we're getting ready to spend the next 31,536,000 seconds. Because that's how many seconds are in a year. And I want you to be able to understand how you're going to spend that time. Little fun fact. Everybody know Jeff Bezos, the guru of Amazon. Jeff Bezos or Bezos, depending on how you want to say his last name. He actually makes a little over $2,400 per second. Right? Wouldn't it be great to walk into your employer and be like, listen, I'm going to cut you guys a break. You don't have to pay me by the hour anymore. Just pay me by the second. Right? You know, please do not pull out your calculators to do that math to find out what that number is. It does not make you feel any better. You'll be like, listen, I got to go. I need to get out of here. I need to get my hustle up. Do you see what he's making per second? You'll be like, I can't listen to you right now. So, listen, I need you guys to just stick with me for the next 1,500 seconds or so, and we're going to see how this little journey goes. All right? All right. So, to understand spending this next 31,536,000 seconds, I think it's important to understand what time truly is. So, let's check out this definition. Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occurred in an apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in conscious experience. Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension along with three spatial dimensions. All of that nerding out to say time is how we measure our past, our present, and our future. It is something that is intangible, that is always going. So, before I got into construction and development, I used to be a manager in a retail store. And I had this one kid that worked for me named Adrian. And see, Adrian was an incredible kid. Whatever I needed him to do, he did it. He had a great heart. He was always, you know, making our customers smile. He was just a great employee. Except for one thing. Adrian had a problem. Do anybody know what that problem is? That boy was late all the time. Listen, it didn't matter if it was a blue sky out there with not a single cloud in the sky. The boy was late every single day. I mean, you know how you get, you know, an award for perfect attendance? He should have got an award for perfect time of being late every single day. So, this one day, Adrian calls me and says, Cliff, I'm running a little bit late. Right? Now, I guess I never thought about it. But I guess it should have been like, you know, you should have called me and told me I'm going to be on time. Then I'll be shocked. But I don't know what your definition of a little bit late is. Mine is like five or ten minutes. Right? The boy was 45 minutes late. 45 minutes. I'm looking like your shift is only like three and a half, four hours. Like, 45 minutes. Bro, you just missed part of the day. And so, this day, I had things I needed to do. And I couldn't leave at that time because I needed to make sure that I had coverage on the floor. So, I'm sitting there waiting for him to get there. So, he comes running in. He's like, Cliff, Cliff, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Listen, I'm going to make this time up to you. I'm going to make this time up to you. I'm like, Adrian, just go in the back, put your stuff down, and get situated so that I can leave. He's like, but, Cliff, listen, you know, it was traffic and it was this and that. And I'm just like, listen, I don't want to hear any excuses. Just go put your stuff down so that I can leave. And he's like, but, but, I said, okay. You want to keep going? Give me 45 minutes. He's like, well, I said I was going to make the time up. I was going to make the time up. I'm like, no, you're not understanding me. Give me 45 minutes. He's like, I said, yeah, put 45 minutes in my hand. He's like, I can't put 45 minutes in your hand. Like, what do you mean? I was like, well, until you can, until you can walk into this floor and put the time that you have taken away from me in my hand, don't be late on my sales floor again. Yeah, it was, listen, I didn't want to have to fight that Miami traffic. Miami traffic will do it to you. So, but he had a good heart, but he just didn't understand the value of my time and his time. He didn't understand what my time really meant to me and how he was wasting both of our time. You see, time is the only resource that we spend that we cannot get more of. Time is the most valuable resource that we cannot see. And time is the only resource that we cannot touch, but has the most profound effect on us. You see, understanding that time is something that it means so much more than what we give it, right? Harvey Mackey says, time is free, but it is priceless. You can own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you have lost it, you can never get it back. We go through life every single day, spending time so promiscuously. We spend this time over here with this person or this group of people that we know we shouldn't be spending that time with. We spend that time worrying about things that we cannot change, even though the past, the past is the past, even though that past could have been five minutes ago. But so many times in life, we go through life and we get stuck. We get stuck in a situation that has taken the breath out of us. It has not the wind out of us. It has not our motivation out of us. We get stuck. We get stuck in time as if time decided to stand still while we get over and work through this situation. But guess what? Time has continued to move on. So where we've been stuck for weeks or months or years in the same situation, time has done what it was supposed to do. It's time for you to do what you're supposed to do, is to keep moving forward. Although it is hard, I'm not standing up here to tell you that it is easy, but it is a conscious decision to spend that time wisely. And if you do spend that time wisely, you get something called a return on your investment. For all our financial folks out there, that's that ROI. Yeah. You're able to get that, a great return on that investment, and that investment may come in different shaped forms and packages. That return on investment could be peace. A peace that you're able to have a better, better piece of life, a better peace for your kids and your family. You're able to do a little bit more. You have comfort. Or maybe that return on investment comes in love. In that relationship where you spent time with that particular person that you've been dreaming about or praying about or stuck in a friend zone for about two years, that love, that love, you get... Listen. I had to put in that time and that prayer, and we've just celebrated 10 years, right? All right? That's it. That return on investment, baby. She ain't going nowhere. It's about getting that love, right? Maybe that return on investment comes in opportunities. Being able to, whether it's professional or personal, being able to travel the world to go to Singapore, Dubai, and to be able to climb a mountain, that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Or maybe it may come in wisdom. I like to look at wisdom as kind of like our mother, because we have our father, our son, and our Holy Spirit. And wisdom, she guides you. She gives you something that you cannot replace. You see, wisdom can come in different forms, whether it's reading a good book, listening to a good podcast, or an encouraging video. Wisdom. She will always make sure that you make and you spend that time wisely. I mean, and like I said, she's like a mother, because how many of you guys remember mom saying, now make good decisions? That's what wisdom does. That's the return on investment in being wise with your time. As I was preparing for this message, we were in the holiday season, and you get all the wonderful Christmas movies out there. You guys got any favorites? Anybody got any favorites? Huh? Elf? Uh-huh. That was a funny one. What you got? The Grinch? You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. Everybody remember that one? Mine, I was looking, I was thinking about the story of A Christmas Carol, the movie, and the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, right? Ebenezer Scrooge was a financial guy. He didn't want to know anything about Christ nor Christmas. He was like, listen, I ain't got time for that, and his favorite phrase was, Bah humbug. I don't even know if that's a word, but he has coined that phrase. He started to have a change of heart because he was visited by the ghosts of the Christmas past, present, and the future. I'm wondering as I'm taking notes and I'm getting ready to prepare for this, is there something there? I'm starting to type, God is not our Scrooge, but as I'm starting to type this, my phone, I got a Samsung Galaxy 9. I don't know if that other phone, that bad fruit that Eve gave Adam, I don't know if that phone does it, but my phone does. It gives you something where it tries to predict what you're going to say. If I'm getting ready to type, I love you, if I type I, one of the three top suggestions is love, and then the next one is you, so you don't actually have to type it out. It suggests it up there because it's trying to predict what, you know, either other people have said or what you've typed. So as I started to type, God is not, the very first word out of the three suggestions was realistic. The next word was, and so I clicked, I was like, I want to see where this is going. So I clicked on realistic and then the next word was enough. It's like, huh? And so I clicked the next word and it said to, and then be a part of my, and then the first word was schedule and the word next to it was life. God is not realistic enough to be a part of my schedule or life. The curious question is how many people have actually typed that, that the suggestive function of this program is there. It had to get it from somewhere. So I ask you right now, is God realistic enough to be a part of your schedule? You see, you have to be able to ensure that you have God at your center. I heard this quote, it says, be sure that you never try to work God in your schedule, but always work, excuse me, always work your schedule around God. You have to be able to find a way to make sure that God is the center because he's going to ensure that your schedule works the way it is supposed to work. A couple of months ago, my business partner and I, we were flying out to California to meet with a couple of potential partners to do some development in California. So we go out there and that morning we're getting ready to go to this big meeting. I mean, we have one of our financial guys with us. We're heading over, we're driving, getting ready. We're excited. And I get a phone call. I get a phone call because back here in South Florida, we're waiting to get notification whether or not we got this huge project here in South Florida. And we've been waiting for excitement and we've been praying about it. And we get this call that unofficially that we were not the chosen firm. And I'm like, this is really sucky timing right now. This is not what I needed to hear right before I'm going into this big meeting. But we had a choice to make. We had a choice to be able to get stuck. in this moment in time where we have no control of what just happened or we can keep going. We can keep going and go into this next meeting and kill the meeting and have an amazing time and talk about development over in California. And that's what we did. And so as my business partner and I, we got back to the condo we were staying at and we're just reflecting on everything that just happened that day, right? So polar opposites, we got bad news we didn't want to hear on this end and on the other end, this meeting went exceptionally well, right? So we're sitting there, we're reflecting, I open my Facebook and there was a, the first thing in my newsfeed, it says, I don't know who this is for, but God needs more time. And I'm like, okay, I've been praying about it and I've been trying to fit him into my timeline of how all of this should work out because we've done this before and this is how it should go. And I had to understand I needed to give more time to let him do what he needed to do. He needed to finish putting his hands on it to be able to work all of these things out. I couldn't keep trying to push him on my timetable because he has the perfect timetable. His schedule is flawless and he executes it flawless. There is not a mistake in his schedule. So we get back and I'm sitting there telling my wife about the trip and everything that happened and I was telling her about this epiphany that God has given me about giving him time to be able to continue to do what he needed to do. And she looks at me, she's like, hmm, that's good. But what if God was trying to tell you that you need to give him more of your time? I was like, hmm, I didn't think about that, baby. Leave it to your wife to be able to give you a different perspective. Say when you find a wife, you find a good thing, right? So I had to stop and to look at that. God was in one hand saying, give me time to let me do what I need to do, but also on the other hand, give me your time so I can do what I need to do in you. So through so many times in our situations, we're praying about the situation to get better. But what God is telling you is like, I'm working on that, but I need you to be ready too. I need your time. I need the time to be able to spend to help you to be able to handle the success and the challenges that you're going to face. And so I had to stop and think, how am I going to spend this time? So my morning schedule is I get up at 6.20, I take my son to school, and I come back to the house. Now, I read my Bible. I have my devos that I read, but that wasn't enough. God says, I need you to give me more time, and my last name is more. So he's like, I want your time. So I stopped and I started to be intentional about spending a little bit of time in just trying to hear what God is trying to tell me. You see, even Jesus wanted to show us that principle, that it is very important for us to be able to withdraw and to be able to spend time with God. In Luke 5, 16, it says, but Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer. Even right before he was arrested, about to face the biggest challenge of his life, before he faced the cross, he and the disciples were sitting there, and in Mark 14, 32, it says, they went to the olive grove called Gethsemane. I don't know if I'm saying that right, but it's good. And Jesus said, sit here while I go and pray. Now I know like all of us in this room, you're looking at me saying, Cliff, but I'm busy, bruh. I got things going on. I'm doing this. I don't even have time for me. How do I make this work? I was watching a movie with my son, I think last week or something like that, and the actor in the movie said, if it's important, you will make time. If it is not, you will make excuses. There is always a way to be able to create that time. Martin Luther, the great philosopher says, if I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business, I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer. So in other words, if your day is that busy, if you got that many things going on, then you got that many things you need to be praying about. You're like, Cliff, but I'm just trying to get me some me time and not the time in the morning where I'm locking the door so the kids can't come into the bathroom. I just want me some me time. God time is me time. That's time where you can spend in prayer, in praise, in service, in triumph, and most importantly, in healing yourself. Here at Heart Way, after you get baptized, and anybody in the room got baptized last Sunday? Right there. She raised her hand proudly, proudly. And right here, that's what I'm talking about. After you get baptized, you may be standing there like, what's next? You know, I took the dive, I went back. What's next? Here at Heart Way, we have something called circulate. What circulate is, is a class that goes through this four steps, four processes to be able to help you to understand how to navigate through this journey with God now that you've taken that big step. And one of the things that you learn in that class is your spiritual personalities. Your spiritual personalities, it helps you to understand how you really connect with God. I have a couple of them up on the screen. We got nine of them, so stick with me. And I want you to think about what resonates with you. The first one is a naturalist, the person that feels so much connected to God when they're in the mountains, or in the forest, or in the ocean. Pastor Danny's wife, Emily, would tell you every time that is how she feels most closely to God. Next, you have a traditionalist, and their way of feeling connected to God is through their traditions and their rituals. A contemplative is one that likes a quieter moment, centering prayer. They want peace. They want quiet, stillness. The next one is a visionary, and I can tell you that's probably me, because I feel close to God because I start to see the visions that he has for my life, and even others. That's how I know that God has something incredible in store for my life, is through the visions. Next is a socialite, which is, this is probably like my secondary for all that know me. I'm a people person. I feed off the energy of people. I love being around people and connecting with people, hearing their stories. That's my secondary. A caregiver, someone that feels closest to God by being compassionate and loving to others, extending that helping hand, going out of their way to be able to connect and help someone else. The next one we have is an intellectual. Pastor Danny, this one's for you. Being able to dive a little bit deeper into the word, to understand, to dissect it a little bit, to see the nuggets that's there, to be able to take that information and be able to give it right back to us. The next one is worshiper. My wife will tell you that's her thing. She has an amazing voice, and for her, singing, music, that's how she feels closest to God. And then lastly, an activist. The person that wants to go out and fight for justice. They want to help raise up the people that have been marginalized, those that have been oppressed. That's the activist. Where do you lie? What is your spiritual personality? You can also go through this class, whether you've been baptized or if you've already been baptized before, we want you to be able to understand how you can relate to God. That's what this is all about. You have to understand that there is a time for everything. There is a way to make that time. In Ecclesiastics 3, 1 through 7, it says, to everything there is a season, a time to every purpose under the heaven, a time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away, a time to rend and a time to sow, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak. You see, this idea of spending time has been rooted in us and woven in us when we were in our mother's womb. Time is something that we cannot get away. Even our kids understand this idea of time. I spend time with my kids, Bea and Bryce, differently. For Bea, it's when her and daddy go to the store, right? It doesn't matter. We're like, where are we going, Costco or Publix? That's our thing. Bryce is like, I don't want to go, so he stays at the house with my wife and me and Bea go and we go to Costco or we go to Publix. If you guys have met my daughter, she knows what she wants, when she wants it, how she wants it. We're getting ready to go to the store and she's two at the time. She looks at me and she says, Papi, you got to change your shirt. I'm like, I got my company work shirt on. She's like, you have to change your shirt. I said, why? She said, that's daddy's work shirt. You see, she understands that it's not time for daddy to send another email, to make another phone call or send another text message because this is Bea's time. I tell you this little girl is serious about this. One day we had just walked out the house. I had turned and locked the door, turned around and she's standing there looking at me and she says, Papi, you got to change your shirt. I knew why she was telling me this, but I said, Bea, why? She was like, that's daddy's work shirt. I was like, well, can I wear this one time? She was like, no. As if she knows that if she lets me slide this one time, I'm going to try to slide another time. She's like, I got to train you right. I'm like, I'm a grown man and I'm standing here like, well, I got to change my shirt. I did what any grown man would do. I went in the house, went to my closet, changed my shirt, came back out, grabbed my daughter and got in the car and we went. She understands spending time is important. That's her time. Don't encroach on her time. The same way Jesus, God is telling you, that's my time. Stop putting things in my time. Stop putting things, whether it's an email or a text message or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, stop putting things in my time. That's my time with you. That's the way that I'm going to communicate to you, to answer the prayers that you've been praying about, to be able to give you clarity, to tell you that that thing you've been praying about ain't what you really need. Allow me to have that time to be able to give you that clarity. God is telling us that no relationship can just be based solely on the, I need you right now or something or some things just went wrong and I need to talk to you right now. No relationship can grow or sustain itself just based off that. So I'm telling you right now, put the gram down, pick up a convo with God and have that conversation with him. Give him time to speak. Don't do what I'm working on, I'm trying to get better. Don't do what I do and be like, Lord, listen, I got this and I don't know, this person over here been driving me nuts, but I got to try to work on this and just keep going. You see, trying to quiet this thing between my ears is a task in and of itself, but stop. Be quiet, be still and allow God to speak to you. He will. Sometimes he'll speak to you in different ways. Sometime it's the quiet, still voice during centering prayer. Other times he'll use somebody else to speak to you and yes, he will use that person that you think is least likely to give you a bit of advice or direction, but please be open. He's trying to say something to you. I'll tell you this, if I don't know anything... about God. If I don't know any, if I didn't know God, I know one thing. He wants to hear and to speak to you as much as you want to hear and speak to him. I got a challenge for you guys. You guys ready? I said, are you ready? Okay. My challenge is a 60-day challenge. This is not a New Year's resolution. This is not something that you're going to start on January 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 because you keep putting it off while I do it tomorrow. This is a challenge that you can start today. This is a challenge that or tomorrow morning. I'll give you tomorrow morning. That's it. That's it. I'll give you nothing else. This challenge is to create space, time for God. I mean, I'm no Martin Luther. He's talked about two, three hours. I'm not going to lie to you. We in church, I'm not doing three hours, but what I will tell you is he has my time. So set aside 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever that looks like to you. And you'll know that you're spending that time wisely because you have a piece about it. So I want you guys to follow back up with me, me, Pastor Danny, Pastor Brendan, come tell us how that is going. Come tell us like, all right, Cliff, listen, I know it's seven days a week. I'm up to three and I'm at like 15, 20 minutes. We want to hear because it is about your heart that we are trying to get to. And the scripture says through your heart is where all good things flow. If your heart is pure because you've been able to be able to hit reset, you flushed out all of the things that you've been holding onto that you should have let go. So then been filling yourself up with God and your heart is healthy. You've spent that time wisely. You're gaining that return on investment. So we want to hear from you. This is a 60 day challenge. You guys ready for this? This is not just some cool part of the message. I'm really telling you we have a 60 day challenge. Are you guys ready for this? All right. I ain't playing. Okay. All right. I'll leave you with this. The next 31,536,000 seconds of 2020 spend your time, spend it. Don't lose it. When you spend your time, you make a conscious decision to spend that time. But when you lose it, most cases you don't know how, when or where you lost it. Let me pray for you. Lord, we just want to thank you for today. Thank you for loving us the way that you do. Thank you for being the best part of us. Thank you for allowing us to be able to have this time, whether short or long Lord, we are grateful for the time that you have given us the time to be able to spend with loved ones, time to be able to spend with you. Help us to be able to understand that we must spend our time wisely, Lord, not to use this time to be concerned with the things that we cannot change. Help us to be able to see you, Lord. Help us to be able to hear the words that you have for us, Lord. We know that spending time with you is the best thing that we can do to start our day each and every day. For Lord, you take a second, a minute, an hour, an event, or a situation and you weave it together to make it into the best tapestry of our destiny. We are grateful for the time we have. Guide us through this year 2020 and the years beyond to be able to spend that time wisely. We ask this in your son Jesus' name we do pray. Amen.