Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of The Todd Hermann Show.
And then some because there's a lot of breaking news
we need to talk about. Story number one probably will
touch on this. This is a lot of breaking news
to talk about. Is this an example of eating like
white people? This is huge, huge, and viral on the tubes, etc.
Story number two, it's easy, you cowardly Republicans vote no
on the spending orgy, and Marjorie Taylor Green voted for this.
Mike Lie says Speaker Johnson created this with Schumer and
Pelosi in a back room. He's not in favor of it.
And you'll hear Marjorie Chaylor Green's reasoning as to why
she voted for it. And story number three, the birth
of Jesus Christ from the viewpoint of King Herod. A
friend of mine did this the other day on stage
in the youth group, and it really impressed me because
my question is what would the modern day herods do?
I contend they're doing it. We'll talk about this with
the help of our YouTube channel and with God Almighty.
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These
are the times in which God has decided we shall
live and Merry Christmas to you. And if it's not
going to be a merry Christmas, understands I know what
that feels like. And if it's going to be a
lonely Christmas, I also know what that feels like. So
I would let you know it's okay to admit that
you do not have to act happy, and you don't
have to pretend to be jolly. And if you have
friends who are wanting you to be jolly, it might
be a good time to have a real talk about
what friendship means, means being able to meet people where
they're at. So if this is a holiday for you,
I know we're not here in person, but I will
tell you I've had those. I don't know how you're feeling,
but I've had those. So however you're feeling, it's okay.
Jesus wants all of us even during Christmas. He doesn't
expect you to be jolly. If you're not feeling jolly,
don't lie to him, because he knows the truth. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: The true test of our commitment is weather.
Speaker 4: In the face of an obstacle, do we throw up
our hands.
Speaker 3: Or do we roll up our sleeves?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: And as we approach and I ask you here we
go to remember the context in which.
Speaker 1: You well, do you see the body language?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I did that, the context of which we exist.
Speaker 1: If you watch that, you're seeing a woman knowing she's
got got the line coming the context it which we exist.
And maybe she means I read it. I kept saying
the context. Maybe she meant she read it properly from
the teleprompture. But she is a proud African American woman,
recently African American right to that she was an Indian
American at least focused on that back part of her
ethnic background. But she does like to go out in
speech code and code shift. It's called sociologically. Remember the
Kamala Harris Detroit girl, I'd asking you are Italic? Remember
that with the head bopping and then the thing when
she's down in the rural South. Now she is a
rural black American, So what is genuine blackness? Well, maybe
I'm not the one that gets to say that because
I'm genuinely white. But then again, Kamala Harris was, of
course genuinely half something. And Joe Biden famously said, if
you're not voting for me, then you ain't black. It's
apparently not having good manners. A mother took a video
of a way that she teaches her kids to eat
in the continental dining style. Now, if you've ever seen
me on my once a week pizza extravagance, ain't No
one wants to watch me eat in a Caesar salad.
But I can pull up knife and fork and sit
upright and do the right thing. And I think everyone
should be able to do this in a fine dining situation.
You're a white tablecloth piece. You don't want to be
shoving pieces of lettuce up your hole? What guy do
when I'm down at the beloved pizza place. The pushback
on this, it's a bunch of people saying to this lady,
why you want to try so hard to be white folk?
Who the hell eat like that? Modern day slavery. These
are among some of the comments for this woman teaching
her children how to eat with proper manners. It's like
a hotel you.
Speaker 4: With your mouth closed.
Speaker 1: Good job, the kids look so good. A look at
the tie and the dude.
Speaker 6: Take your time to first before you cut again, take
your take your time, okay, Now, pull your chair up
a bit, center yourself to the to the plates.
Speaker 1: She's a little bit urgent in her demands.
Speaker 4: Take your time. I need to handle in the palm
of your hands. That's too big. I need you to
cut that again.
Speaker 2: What's going to happen.
Speaker 4: It's going to be bulging out the sides of your mouth.
And that's not eating gracefully.
Speaker 1: That's me at the pizza place. Salad.
Speaker 4: Good job, Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I'll see that's good, solid price. Here's the young lady.
Speaker 4: Excellent job.
Speaker 1: She is doing well. That's a very small piece of me.
But wait, how come he gets to get away without
the with the dress up style. Maybe it was a
victory to get he's the older team. Probably a victory
to get him there.
Speaker 4: That's too big, too big.
Speaker 3: Let's cut beautiful, beautiful, But.
Speaker 1: He's an older teen. He's dressed so nicely. So the
commentary on This is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
It's black on black rhetorical violence. There's nothing wrong with
the able being able to be very, very polite, and
there's something that comes with that, and it's self respect.
It means is I can enter any situation and I
can find a way to relate to this situation and
be okay. You know, I've been to places where rich
people eat like rich people, and it's good to be
able to disappear into that. But it's also good to
just be able to recognize this that's not a black thing,
it's not a white thing. It's a style thing. It's
a respect thing. And if you extend this into what
has happened in black society, it's being pushed down really
by people at the top of the Democrat party. You
can't expect the black kids to eat that way. You
can't expect them to get into the extra credit classes,
the high end classes, you can't expect them to behave
well at school. Therefore, they have to have a different
discipline track, as they've done within the Seattle public school system.
They have a different discipline track. They can do things
thirteen to fifteen times that white kids can't do because
you can't expect the blacks to you know, and voter
ID mean, the blacks, they can't go out and figure
out where to get an ID. It's just the blacks
can't do that, just like the blacks can't properly use
knife and fork. The conning of the American mind, particularly
the African American mind, it is a very cynical, very
hard edged attempt to keep people manageable. Because if you
tell a population of people that you can't even be
trusted to go out and find an ID to vote
or to properly use a knife and fork, how could
you possibly succeed without the great, great help of Nancy
Pelosi and the party. So yeah, from dining all the
way up to managing ourselves. And I look at that situation,
and I see the Last Supper. Now, look, there were
conventions at the Last Supper. There were dining conventions. If
you've ever examined some of the paintings that depict that
the people who sit to the left and the right
of Jesus, why were things laid out that way? Why
was Jesus sitting like he was sitting. Why was Jesus
the person to break bread and to hand it out.
And incidentally, this has lost a lot of times, particularly
evangelical churches. What did Jesus do before he broke bread?
He gave facts, He was and is God, and he
was giving thanks. That's also a convention that's lost. It's
funny to live in a place like North Idaho where
people know what to do when they approach a table
and you're praying, a server knows what to do. Here
in other cities, particularly the fallen countries San Francisco or
Los Angeles, if you're at a table and you're praying
before you eat, the servers will come and interrupt you.
And they're not trying to be rude. They simply don't
understand what you're doing. They think you're looking at your phones.
Here in a place where people attend church regularly, the
servers will approach the table and notice that you're praying,
and they'll sometimes pause and say, I'm sorry what you've
done praying. But you know what I really like is
when you invite the server to pray with you. And
there are people who do that here and they'll stop
and pray with you. That's also convention, but can venture
with a purpose just like eating in a proper way
is story number two. The unfolding drama of the continued
Resolution is many many things. Well, first of all, it's predictable,
and they've known for ninety days that they needed to
have this continued resolution done. They could have begun the
debate eighty five days ago. They knew that they were
going to pack this into a fifteen hundred page bill.
They knew that the American people who voted for Donald Trump,
the percentage of us who did do not want more
fifteen hundred page bills. I don't know that President Trump
knows that. I don't know that President Trump knows that.
I'll explain that in just seconds. So they tried to
decided to do what they always do, which just to
create this Christmas rush. This, oh my gosh, the government's
going to shut down. And now there's this effort to
raise the debt ceiling, to not have a debt ceiling.
We don't have one now, but there's an effort to
erase it all together.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: President Trump has a different view of debt than I
do and maybe you do, which is he doesn't think
it's a problem because of course he has used leverage
in the real estate business to his advantage. President Trump
knows how to manage debt. But our country is not
thirty trillion in debt. It's three hundred and thirty trillion
in debt. We are structurally bankrupt. And yes, Elon Musk
and Vivic Ramaswami can do something to attack that, and
they have some great ideas on that, but they're going
to be facing a Congress that doesn't want them to
have anything to do with this. They don't want this responsibility.
There are people like Representative Wesley Hunt who refuse to
vote yes on this Continuing Resolution and the other ones
true conservatism. But I want you to hear from Mike
Lee and then a statement from Marjorie Taylor Green, because
they're looking at just the spending portions of this. Forget
the protections for pharma, and there's more of them being uncovered.
There was something in the Continuing Resolution that would have
banned RGA from reforming anything to do with reporting for
vaccine injuries. They were looking to prevent him from doing
that for which he's been selected is to make sure
that if we're going to four shots on people, which
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least tested for safety. So we'll get to this in
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involved in the behind the scenes negotiations to land us
with these absurd, offensive continuing resolution items. So you're saying,
hold on, just back up.
Speaker 7: So you're saying these four people, you're saying, Jeffries, John McDonnell.
Speaker 5: Johnsconnel, the firm. They look this, okay, McConnell and Schumer guy.
Speaker 7: They cooked this up for the last eighty five days
in secret, dropped it on everybody Wednesday, and this is
where we.
Speaker 5: Are, yes, and it has failed. It's failed miserably because
the American people were awake. They have access to X,
they have access to waters World, they have access to
information and to apps that will help them quickly digest
this information.
Speaker 1: This does not work.
Speaker 5: It's an historic moment. It's fallen apart and as a result,
somebody's going to have to lose their job over this.
I don't think the speaker is going to remain in power.
That's my prediction. I'm not in the House if I'm
correct in that, and I think I am. We need
bold new leadership out side leadership, and I think it
needs to be a Doge speaker. It needs to be
either vivic Ramaswami or it needs to be Elon Musk. Look,
I was over here a couple of weeks ago House
of Senate Republicans for a Doge caucus meeting. I've never
seen we're like, you know, hurting cats Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Never seen so much attention, so much respect for two
people in our entire caucus. In the Senate end of
the House.
Speaker 7: So you're officially nominating right here on Jesse Waters Prime Time,
either Vivek or Elon to be House Speaker. Doesn't have
to be a politician, could be anyone can be speaker.
Speaker 1: Do they want that job? I don't know. Look, it
would be an amazing thing to have a non congressional
member have that job. I Vivic Ramaswami. No, sorry, I'm
not in. He's far too embedded with Pharma. I don't
trust the guy as far as I can throw several
of them. Elon Musk he's a transhumanist. He's smart, he's
playing it behind the scenes game. He knows he's positioning
his company for great things. But then there's also this.
He's the target of DOJ investigations and SEC investigations. They're
coming at him. They wanted to take Twitter from him,
to destroy it. There was a plan that one of
the British operative organizations brought over here to tell the
Democrats job number one is to destroy Elon Musk's Twitter.
He's been willing to take hits. That means to me
he actually believes in the cause above and beyond the
business stuff. Because Musk could sell one business and never
need money again. Ramaswami is not at that level, and
he may not get to that level unless, of course,
he invents himself in government, but it would be a
fascinating thing to see. Speaker Johnson is a guy who
believes in Jesus, serves Jesus, but doesn't trust him. This
is very, very evident in his decision to sacrifice some
of the promises he made in order to keep the
money flowing to Ukraine in a war we cannot win.
But he also made the decision to continue to allow
the train of kids which God cannot smile upon that
he can't Marjorie Taylor Green voted for the continuing Resolution.
Here's what she wrote on Twitter. I'm one of the
most conservative members of Congress, and last night I voted
for a bill that ordinarily I would never vote for. However,
the man that took a bullet to the face and
won the presidential election with griddard and twelve Electoral College
votes and the most votes of any Republican presidential candidate
in history, asked me to vote for it, so I
did gladly. After Johnson completely failed us by not including
us in the planning of this year's this year ends
government funding and then dumped a fifteen hundred page CR
omnibus on his Tuesday night with little to no time
to read it, and got caught in his scheme. Was Schumer, McConnell,
and akeem by all the great American people here in
Exelong with Elon Musk and Vivic Gramswami. It was President
Trump's team, our incoming Vice President Jade Vance, and President
himself himself. Are President Trump himself who dove in in
the midnight hour and came up with a CR that
solves the debt sailing problem for President Trump and even
more importantly, helped hurricane victims, farmers and would CA keep
the government open. They shouldn't have had to do that,
but they did. After that CR failed last night, I
consure you nothing good is coming behind it. But what's worse,
in my opinion, is that we gave up a critical
opportunity unite and pass our own CR, sending you to
the Senate with a powerful message to Schumer and the
Dems that come hell or high water, we're going to
deliver for President Trump and the people who elected him.
After this let it shut down. I'll only vote to
pay a military border patrol and key federal law enforcement,
and the very basics to keep things going until January
twenty twenty twenty five, House Republicans. We better figure out
how to get this done next year. After that, we
require change. We do require change, and I think you
just did President Trump a great favor. I'm not going
to sit in this chair and back President Trump on everything.
I do not want to see us go further into debt.
I do not want to see us raise or do
away with the debt ceiling. Just the opposite. I want
to cut, cut, cut, and these omnibus things have to die.
We want single topic bills. There are single topic contracts
on big issues. For instance, when you buy a house,
you're signing a contract to purchase a house, or to
borrow money to purchase a house. They usually don't roll
into that your college debt, business debts. Hey, while we're
at it, let's do some contracts based upon your usage
of land, and hey, how about those bank accounts. We
want single topic bills. When that happens, I'm going to
know that there's some seriousness to this. I just don't
know how much faith I have in that happening story.
Number three. I've been thinking a lot because of a
presentation my friend Dirk did a church about the point
of view of King Herod when Jesus was born versus
that of Mary and Joseph. And I think this is
a meaningful aspect of the Christmas story that we should
spend some more time examining, because I think it goes
to the heart of what God wants us to know.
I've also been puzzling about what would the modern day
king herods do if they knew Jesus was coming back. Well,
many of the modern day king herods do know Jesus
is coming back, and they're doing it. They're putting his
followers in jail cells for praying at abortion clinics in
the UK. They're putting people in jail cells for praying
within sight of an abortion clinic, even though they're praying
silently in their heads for their son who was aborted
against their will. At being the gentleman leaning against a
tree facing away from the abortion clinic so that no
one there could see him praying, the modern day king
herods are putting him in jail. The modern day king
herods are making children unable to have children through the
transing of kids, be fruitful of multiplied. It's difficult to
do when you can't have kids. That means fewer people
to help bring the light to people. They're doing it.
They've banned real discussion of God from within the government schools,
even in things that comparative religion classes. We can't go
around comparing the religions. The modern day king herods see
what's coming. They've floated ideas, like in Massachusetts, they floated
the idea that the state government should be able to
take over the funding for churches that sure you tithe
that the use of those funds are put up in
front of a civilian review board of people who do
not belong to the church. They floated the idea that
Catholics should not be allowed to serve on the Supreme Court.
They're doing it the modern day herods. They know exactly
what they're doing, aboarding children, making us libel for that
crime by our tax dollars being involved in this. That's
going to be a heck of a discussion on judgment
day that all of us are going to face. I
don't know that we're continued we should continue to pay taxes.
I err on the side of I do this because
Jesus said, render under Caesar's that which is his. That's
the only reason I do it. But I wonder maybe
we should be looking harder at this. When Peter and
John were told to stop speaking God's word, they refused
eve though it was government telling him. They said, no,
there is a higher authority. So in all those ways,
I think the modern day king herods are doing what
they're going to do. But what about this view, this
difference in experience between King Herod's view versus that of
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I would say, it's called it the Christmas facts, between
the view of King Herod and the view of Joseph
and Mary, and I think it's something that we should
relate to today. It is one of the things that
bolsters my faith that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. Start
with this. Who was Herod? So Herod was one of
the world's most brutal politicians. He was half Jewish like
Kamala Harris. Basically he was half Jewish, but being half Jewish,
he was allowed to be a ruler. He was placed
there by Rome, he was appointed. Hey, that sounds like Kamola.
She almost got to be president. It sounds like figurehead Biden,
who we know from the Wall Street journal piece was
never really president, and how long have we been saying
that here? So Herod was made the king of the Jews,
but he served Rome. So he was given earthly power
by people who were given earthly power, and they didn't understand. Hey,
God's letting you do these things for now, but eventually
you're going to pay for the things you did. Eventually
God's going to want to talk with you about how
you stewarded this great privilege he gave you of leading
this region of the world. Herod was also a deeply
brutal man. He was willing to do anything to maintain power,
things like killing his favorite wife. He did that, tradition
tells us with a dagger. He ended the lives of
his sons because they might be people who could rise
up against him. These are things that are detailed about Herod.
Herod had no problem ending the lives of other people
because it was a way to instill fear. Oh, he
had carrots to the populace. He built some great buildings.
He even gave money to the temple well, so long
as they would decorate it Herod's style. And remember who
the true man God was, it was him. Well, serving
for Caesar, and then he would make those mouth noises
that Caesar was the one and true God. So imagine
when Herod began to hear rumors, and we know that
the wise men in the Bible came to him and
eventually told him, Hey, there's a Messiah being born. But
they weren't the only ones who knew that. They just
happened to be the academics of the time. People had
been looking for Messiah for a long time, the Jewish people,
and the rumors had begun to swirl that this is
the age of the Messiah. When the wise man came though,
and they'd been studying this, and there's no doubt they
came to him with maybe Isaiah fifty three, which is
what we call it in the Bible. This is one
of the key key chapters of the Bible that foresees
the coming of Jesus. Jesus in his life and his
birth fulfilled up six hundred prophecies, many of them created
thousands of years before Jesus walked the earth. So the
wise men show up, they knock on the door, they
walk in and they see Herod and there's three of them,
and they say, there's a star. It's never appeared in
the sky before. It's in the north. We're going there
because it's from there that the Messiah will be born.
This is what the prophecy tells us the king of
the Jews. Now, Herod was a guy who didn't have
a big reason to fear. He had unlimited power. You know,
if you think about our country right now, we're working
into a time of unlimited power. The people who run
Joe Biden decided that they can spy on you, that
they can have your words taken off of social media,
that they can force you to ingest poison into your
bodies if they tell you to. They decided that they
have purview over death and life. So they are hedging
right on that point of having truly unlimited power. I mean,
we're already at a point where our kings, pardon me,
I mean our presidents don't have to declare war even
when they go decide to fund both sides of a
war between Israel and Hamas, which takes us back to
the Holy Land. So Herod, a guy who had absolutely
no reason to fear. He was surrounded by soldiers, soldiers
who had already proven they would go out and end
the lives of people brutally, sometimes intimately, sometimes in mass
on his behalf and a little baby. When he made
the decision, as is detailed in the Bible, to go
and forcibly in the lives of little babies aged two
and below who were male and Hebrew, he thought he
was making it impossible for the Messiah to survive that.
Think about Satan's plan today. The more babies he can kill,
the fewer will make it in to the world, the
fewer Christians there will be. Think about that perspective. So
Herod creates the order you're to go end the lives
of all children were Hebrew and male below the age
of two, and that's going to make him safe. Oh
he found out later he missed. He missed because he
couldn't have hit. But what caused him to take that step,
You know what? I think it was the wise men
didn't come back. He told them, Hey, after you go
check on this baby, come back and tell me what
you found. Now I start in the Bible. I don't
know this to be the case, but I think the
fact that the wiseman did not come back and give
him a report, that I think is what tipped him
over because these were men who knew he had massive
military power, but instead of going after him or them,
he decided to go after this baby. So let's take
at this from a different perspective. When Mary and Joseph
became the mother, and in the case of Joseph the
earthly father, the adoptive father of Jesus, they were given
not just a massive well honor, but think about the responsibility.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: When I was a young father, and I mean young
as in the second day of my daughter being with us,
we were taking her out of the hospital, and I'll
never forget looking at this, like walking out and looking
at the doctors and nurses going full idiots. You're letting
us leave. You didn't know how scared we are. Sure
I gave the baby a bath, and yeah, I was
raised around kids. I was babysitting from the time I
was like an eight or nine. But this is a baby.
You people are nuts. So we go out to the hospital.
My wife's in the wheelchair. They made her do that,
and I had my car pulled up in this little
section for installing car seats and up there and I'm
installing the car seat, and I'm stressed, and I keep
looking around. My wife's like, can we go? And a
very kind state patrolman came up to me. He goes,
first time. Yeah, So this police officer came over, he goes,
let me take a look, and he jumped into the
car and he shook the seat around and changed. If
you thinks because you're solid, you're good. Okay, thank you
so much, still thinking you fools are letting us leave,
driving home with her in the back seat. Joseph and
Mary were to steward the Son of God, the Messiah.
So I wonder if that was ever a burden. I
wonder if it was ever an extra burden, because I
remember when I lost my daughter for a little while
in Seattle Center. She was in a bubble house. It
was one of those jumpy houses, and it turned out
there was a hole in the bottom of the house
and she'd fallen through and didn't know how to get out.
She was in there crying and I couldn't hear her,
and only this kind little boy said, are you looking
for a little blonde girl? Oh, she's below the jumpy house.
So I got in there and got her out. But man,
I had already looked at my watch. I like, okay, we're
going to triangulate if someone's taken her, they can only
be ten minutes away. I was that ready to go
to nine to one one. Yeah, I was concealed, carrying
and all that. But can you imagine when Joseph and
Mary lost Jesus for those few days. It's not just
their beloved son, but imagine having to go to judgment
day in front of God Almighty to say, so, how'd
that go? When I gave you the privilege of raising
the Messiah? I was fine until he was seven, then
we lost him. I wonder if that was ever a burden.
But now think about their Christmas experience. Prior to knowing
Herod's had decided to go end the lives of all
these children. These were simple people who show up in
town and no room at the end. That's a thing
known even for people who don't follow the Bible. They
know that portion of the fact of Jesus's birth. But
do you think when Joseph went to Mary and said, hey,
by the way, I did find a barn, you think Mary,
blessed among women, said oh, blessed be you for finding
a barn. Or do you think she said you blank
a barn? And in the back of their minds, the
son of got in a barn. Now, they weren't perfect people.
And I wonder if when Joseph went to a house
and said, I know you have a room. I can
see it. You think they ever lost their temper or
were they just so blessed that they couldn't possibly lose
their temper. And when Mary was giving birth, I mean,
it might be that God decided to make her immune
from pain, but I don't think so, because God doesn't
argue with himself. He said, childbirth is going to be painful.
He said that when we as a species decided that
we prefer our own way, we had paradise with God,
walking with God. All we needed. We did a little
bit of work. Just don't eat the fruit from that tree.
And we said, no, we want to eat the fruit
from that tree because the snake said it's good. So
Mary was probably in pain and Joseph had to witness
this in a barn in a mager, would you feel
like a loser. You would feel like a loser. I
would feel like a loser. Any reasonable man would feel
like a loser. But when people started to show up
to worship the baby, do you think that Joseph's instincts
as a father stood up in his heart. What are
you doing there, my kid, We're all these people coming here.
Wouldn't you feel concerned? Wouldn't marry about as vulnerable as
a woman can be weak and it's not fully clothed.
I mean, I know she was covered, I know her
naked body was not seen. But still that's a point
of vulnerability. So we do well to look at their
experience and to look at it this way. God didn't
need to have his son born that way. He could
have been born in the cleanest, safest castle, with hundreds
of midwives and expert physicians. But he didn't. I think
for multiple reasons. One is because Jesus came for us,
not for the select, not for the elites. Oh they're included,
but he came for everybody. But I think he also
gave Jesus a gift, Jesus the person, fully god fully human.
He gave Jesus the gift of human intimacy, the ability
to have empathy, to be able to say, I know
what it is to be hungry, and I know what
it is to have my father apologize to me, son,
I'm sorry you were born in a barn and lay
in a manger. And of course, when King Herod made
that decision to go wipe out those babies, the Angel
warns Joseph and Mary and they had to remember God
really is with us, the modern day King Herod's they're
doing what the modern day King Herods do. They're trying
to once again make it impossible for the Messiah to
do his job. Merry Christmas to you, and in this
beautiful Christmas season, may God continue to be with you.
This is the Todd Herman Show. Please goill, be well,
be strong, be kind, and please make every effort to
walk in the light of Christ.