So with that, I'm going to turn it over to our brother, Ethan Barrett, for his exhortation entitled New Mercies Every Morning.

I'd like to share with you something this afternoon that I find incredibly hard in my life.

I've never been good at it, and I might even go to the extreme and say that ninety-nine percent of the time I hate doing it, and I think a good proportion of you probably know what this is, and that is waking up in the morning.

I have to have the loudest alarm there is, otherwise it's not going to be heard.

Um, I have to hit the snooze button a few times before I even consider getting up.

And after that, then I've got ten minutes to get out the door, and I'm running a hundred mile per hour, rushing around, and eventually get to work on the minute to start.

And, and then a recent sort of self-reflection of my discipleship brought this out, that in a morning I was just a mess and, and I was rushing around, um, and that left absolutely zero time to thank God for the morning that He had given me.