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All right. Well, good morning, everybody. If you're wondering, what was that? Why'd they play an old country music song? That was one of Nick Fick's favorite songs he always asked us to sing and he's got a birthday coming up. And so, and I got, I can, I gotta make a confession. I really enjoy singing that song. I mean, all I can hear is Kris Kristofferson when I go, why me Lord, and I can't do it justice, but it sure is fun. We are going to have in between services, we have three octogenarian birthdays. Coming up, we have Nick Fick. We have Annette Fick, and we have Keith Morrison. So in honor of all the three of them, we're going to have a little birthday cake in between services. So if you guys can stay for that and help celebrate them we would we would much appreciate that because they're worth it. We love those guys. Okay, if you want to turn to me and your boss We are in the book of Numbers, chapter 11. Hopefully we'll be finishing that up today. Because dad's starting 12 second service so the heat is on Numbers chapter 11. And I'm going to pick up in in in verse 16. Now, of course, we talked last week, we began chapter 11 talking about the the Israelites are beginning to moan and complain. And there's actually two occurrences of that in chapter 11. And chapter 11 begins with it with an occurrence of them complaining and griping. And it doesn't even tell us what the reason is. It just says that the Lord sent a plague amongst them and in the outskirts of the camps and fire among them, and destroyed many of them. We don't even know what that was. And it's not I don't know what the exact measurement of time is between then, and then begin complaining again about me. It's interesting how complaining begets complaining. My mom used to always say to me, I don't know why she said these kind of things to me. I was such a great young man was such a wonderful attitude. As some of you remember. She says, Thank you. I'm so glad you came in the later years. But my mom used to say to me, frankly, if you dread it, you'll dread it. If you dread it, you'll dread it. She also used to say to me as many because I used to say she say you know, she put a Nike sign in my room just do it. Do it today do it today because I would say why do today, but I can put off until tomorrow. And and she said that but we won't talk about that part of it. But she used to always say also say to me, your attitude determines your altitude. And so often, we almost create our own fate. We know are in the sense of in the sense of I'm not talking about speaking things into existence. So, so please don't don't confuse it. I'm saying, but we almost create our own fate in the sense that we put ourselves in a frame of mind for everything to be wrong. We put ourselves in a frame of mind for everything to be bad. We put ourselves in a frame of mind for everything to be a bummer. You know, you're a member, you're from the Winnie the Pooh, you know what I mean? Whoa, you're clumsy or you know what I mean? Oh, how was your day or? Whoo, it was cold this morning. You know, and God forbid that we are ever a bunch of Christian ears. You know what I'm saying? Because nobody would want to be a Christian. You know, the, you've probably heard it said that. You know, Gandhi was famously said, You know, I would be very interested in in Christians I have I have great regard for the Christian faith. It's the Christians that I don't have a lot of respect for. And then I don't know which Christians he met. And certainly we're not all that way right? But we We have to be cognizant of that our attitud...