Well, it is great to be with you, church. My name is Russ. If I hadn't had a chance to meet you, I'm one of the pastors here, and we want to say welcome to Church at the Grove. So glad that you're here. And I want to say happy Mother's Day to all the moms. And as a matter of fact, I just want to can I just share something with you that I came across a few years ago. It's probably not the first time I've shared it here, but but here's Mother's Day may be the most complex days that we celebrate. And in church, and this and very often we come at it looking at it from one perspective. And the truth is there's a lot of different stories represented in a room like this, or maybe somebody watching online, and we I think should acknowledge the complexity. And so to those who gave birth this year their first child, we celebrate you. To those who lost a child this year, we mourn with you. To those who are in the trenches with the little ones every day and wear the badge of food stains, we appreciate you. To those who experience loss through miscarriage, failed adoptions, or running away, we mourn with you. To those who walk the hard path of infertility, fraught with pokes, prides, tears, and disappointment, tears and disappointment, we walk with you. Forgive us when we say foolish things. We don't mean to mean to make things harder. To those who are foster moms, mentor moms, and spiritual moms, we need you. To those who have warm and close relationships with your children, we celebrate you. To those who have disappointment, heartache, and distance with your children, we sit with you. To those who lost their mothers this year, we grieve with you. To those who experienced abuse at the hands of your own mother, we acknowledge your experience. To those who lived through driving test, medical test, and overall testing of motherhood, we are better for having you in our midst. To those who have aborted children, we remember them and you on this day. To those who are single and long to be married and mothering your own children, we mourn that life has not turned out the way that you hoped for it to be. To those who step parent, we walk with you on those complex paths. To those who envision lavishing love on grandchildren, yet that dream is not to be, we grieve with you. To those who will have empty your nest in the upcoming year, we grieve and we rejoice with you. It's not all bad. To those who place children for adoption, we commend you for your selflessness. And remember how you hold that child dear in your heart. There's a young man that had an opportunity to go to a Super Bowl. First chance, time of a lifetime, opportunity, and he not only did he get to go to the Super Bowl, he he had good seats down in the lower section, but as he's watching the Super Bowl and watching the field, he notices down below him there's a man sitting there for a good portion that's sitting alone. And there's an empty seat right beside him. And and of course, the immediate thought is, man, that seat is better than the seat that I'm in. If I could get into that seat, I could take better pictures, I'd have a better view of the field, I could, I mean, I could be closer to the action. And so he slowly makes his way down to that better seat, and he engages this older man in a conversation, and he said, Sir, I'm I'm just coming down. I noticed you've got an empty seat here for much of the game. And the man said, Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. He said, um, he said, Listen, my wife and I have been coming to Super Bowls since 1967. And he says, he said, This is the first Super Bowl since then that she isn't sitting beside me because she's passed away this past year. And so this man tells a little bit of a story, and and and the the young man immediately forgets just wanting that seat. And he said, Well, sir, isn't there somebody in your family, a child or or a friend, or somebody that could use this seat? He said, Oh, they're all at her funeral right now. I don't care who you are, that's funny. Now, I don't know that that man had the proper priorities in his life in order, but I do believe that appropriately celebrating moms is a great priority, but also digging in and discovering what God's word says about us and how we should walk in relationships is a huge priority. And see, priority and the word intentionality go together. We often have priorities, but we don't intentionally put rhythms and practices in place that reflect those priorities. I mean, I I could I could have great intentions. My intention is to honor my wife and to honor my my mother and and to treat them with the the love that they have shown me, but but there's been a few times where I have been in the restroom after I have stopped by Walmart or Dollar General, and and I'm last minute with something that should have been handled with more intentionality. There's something important about intentional living. And I think moms have this superpower of being intentional. I mean, when I was when I my kids were younger, if my wife lets my wife today is with her mother. Her mother lives over in the Dallas Hiram area, and and her mother is is is 89 years old, and she's um moving on up in age, and that's been a priority for my wife the last few years to be with her mother and go to church with her on her special day. And that's an example of the intentionality of a great daughter and the mother of my children. My wife shows that. I'm just like, you know what, y'all just stay home. I'm going to church without you. I mean, I uh that's why moms are are are are are they have this superpower of intentionality. They carry never-ending mental lists, they think through family schedules, the snacks, the forms that need to be completed for school. While I know many men who are deeply involved, and great dads and great husbands, they they just do not have that gift of intentionality. And often in life we we think about things, but we we don't carry it out. I was gonna reach out, I was gonna apologize, I was gonna deal with that habit, I was going to uh I was gonna spend more time in God's word, I was gonna make church a priority. And unintentional living doesn't mean that you're evil. It probably means that you're busy and that you're tired and you're distracted and you're living on autopilot. And I think the word that is most appropriate for the culture we're in now, we just live our life numb. We're all numb to what's happening. And so as we continue in this series this morning called Rules of Engagement, where we talk about what does it really look like if Jesus has changed our life, what difference does it make in how we live our life, how we interact with the people that are closest to us, and the random people that we cross paths with every day of our life? How does that change us? How does it, and and the word is intentionality. And today we're talking about um really setting the stage where Paul is about to get into the specifics of roles, husbands and wives, and parents and children, but he lays the groundwork in this little section in the first part of chapter five of Ephesians. If you have your Bibles, you can open up to that. And the big idea is this we can't drift into love. We don't drift into love. You have to walk it out, and it has to be intentional. We don't drift into love. Love has to be something that we're consciously and intentional about. We don't drift into love. We we walk it out. It's something that that has to have some intentionality. And so before we jump into this passage, let's just connect the dots of where we've been the last few weeks. We said in the very first week of this series, our last Sunday in the buildings that is across the parking lot that needs a name. That building needs a name, and this building needs the name. I'm tired of saying old and new, so we'll come up with some names. Maybe you can help us out. But I we talked about the the fact that we have our foundation on Christ. Paul writes the letter to the church at Ephesus with two major sections. The first section is he's laying this foundation on who we are in Christ. Who is our identity built on? It's kind of like if you were going to build a building and you were going to dig footings. This is what you would do. Dig the footings down to the bedrock. And the bedrock is your identity in Christ. It is who you are as you put your faith in Christ. You are either in Christ or you are outside of Christ. You were either saved or you are lost. You are either you've been born once or you are now born again. You've experienced salvation or you have yet to experience it. You were in the kingdom of darkness, but now you're in the kingdom of light if you are in Christ. And Paul laid that foundation in Ephesians 1, 2, and 3. And then picking up with chapter 4, we said, hey, we're going to focus on how we live out the gospel in our relationships. See, the gospel doesn't just save you, it shapes who you are. So when Paul gets to chapter 5, he's not just handing us a list of what we would call relational hacks. He's showing us that the new life in Jesus looks different now. The new life in Jesus changes our perspective, our point of view. It changes our heart, it softens our heart. He gives us a new heart, and out of those incredible transformations, our life begins to look different. As I said and quoted my brother last week, where there is no change, there is no Jesus. And so Paul continues to use this metaphor that he has used throughout this book. And the metaphor is walk. And this word matters. It's not just a moment, it's not just an experience. It is a pattern and a rhythm and a direction that you take in life. When you put your faith in Jesus, and Jesus says this in Mark chapter 1, he says, repent and believe the good news, which means you're going down life thinking that you can handle things in your own strength. You can pull yourself up by your own bootstraps spiritually. I can be good and moral and I can behave well, but in reality, you can't because you're lost, you're dark, and you're not saved. And so Jesus says, repent. Repent means to do a U-turn. It means I change my mind, but not only change my mind with a new heart, it begins to change the direction of my life. And as I walk through life, this metaphor that Paul is using here, as I walk through life, my behavior begins to change. My outlook begins to change. And so here's what he says in the very first part of Ephesians 5. We're going to read through this and teach it. He says, therefore, whenever you see therefore, you've got to ask, what is the therefore therefore? It really, I mean, we learned that in hermeneutics, didn't we skip? Is you you look back at what he's saying because what he's saying prior to this, he's saying, therefore, as a result of that, be imitators of God as dearly loved children. And look at this underlying circle, and walk in love. Walk in love. He's using that word again, walk. What does that word mean? It means the patterns, the habits, the rhythms, the way that we live, our decision making, we, how we walk out our life. And he says, walk in love. Walk in love. Well, that sounds great. Walk in love. I mean, I can say I love somebody, but but just because you say you love somebody, there are people that are abusive that can tell somebody else in their life they love them, but they treat them in horrible ways. He says, walk in love, but then he's going to give us some specifics. As Christ also loved us and gave himself for us as a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. And so Paul opens up this section, referring back as a result, therefore, of what we've talked about, you need to walk in love. He says, be imitators of God. Be imitators of God. Who is he talking about? He's talking about Jesus. How do we know God? We know God the best by looking at the life of Jesus. And he says, walk it out. He's reminding us everything flows from our identity in Christ. We are now his children adopted by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And so now we carry with us the DNA of the creator of the universe. And he gives three commands. And the first one is this walk in love. Walk in love, which sounds so easy to say. Even to say I love you is words. I can talk a lot about a lot of things that I normally wouldn't talk about because my wife's not here. And you're gonna and you're gonna keep it between us, right? What happens inside this building stays inside this building. And I know it's being videoed. We'll edit it. It's fine. There's been times where my wife and I have had, I don't want to say that we fight, we have intense fellowship. And I have said, I love you. And in the heat of a moment, she'll say, words, words, words. It's like, oh I hate which she's closer to Jesus than I am. I just it's shouldn't be that way. He says, walk in love. This is listen, this isn't about what you say. It's about a change in conduct, a change in behavior. And Paul is saying, walk in love, and then what does he do? He points to the singular example, picture, metaphor, vision that we could ever have. The clearest, the best, the most powerful vision, picture, metaphor, love. And he says this, as Christ, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. Paul doesn't leave love vague. He doesn't just use it in a way that we would say, oh, just words, words, words. He points to the model, to the picture, and it's the life of Jesus. It's the way he lived. He lived a perfect holy life. He taught the truth. He represented God. He was an example and the perfection and the identity. He is God. You want to know who Jesus is and what he did that demonstrates the greatest love that we could ever understand? You read Philippians 2 where it says that he did not consider his godness as something that he would hold on to, but he let go of it and he humbled himself to the point of dying on a cross. God so loved the world that he, what's the word? Gave. He gave. Jesus' love is demonstrated in the word gave out of John 3.16. God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life. So here's the question, here's a question. When it comes to understanding what it means to walk in love, are you loving with leftovers or are you loving intentionally? A lot of time we love, but we love with leftovers. We love with whatever we have. And Paul says, listen, I God is God is as intentional as you can imagine because it says before the foundations of the earth, the plan that he had was for his son to give his life for us. Based on Ephesians 2.10, it says that you were part of that plan. You were God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works that he's prepared for you to walk in. And so a lot of times love is, hey, I'll give what's left of my attention, I'll give what's left of my patience, I'll give what's left of my energy. But intentional love says, because Christ has given himself for me, I'm gonna choose not just to just to react, I'm gonna be intentional, I'm gonna serve without being asked. I'm gonna put my phone down to be fully present. I'm gonna be the first one to apologize. I'm gonna lay down my preferences for the good of others, choosing to be inconvenienced out of love. Out of love. I'm gonna stop keeping score because love says you don't keep score. Love is unconditional, especially when we look at the example of Jesus. Walking in love looks more like the way that Christ moved toward people. What's so interesting is Jesus, Jesus moved toward the marginalized. Jesus moved toward the people that the other people in his time did not consider valuable. He moved toward the lame, he moved toward the sick, he moved toward the woman that was caught in adultery, he moved toward people that lived immorally, he moved toward the irreligious, he moved toward people that didn't even know that God existed. And what's interesting is you you look at this and you see how much Jesus loved them, but you also see how much they loved Jesus. Intentional. Intentional love. Intentional love. And he says, listen, when you love that way, he says it in this passage, he said it's a fragrant offering to God. Now listen, I just heard you singing in a beautiful way. I love it. I love it when I hear the church singing together. Listen, there's not a more beautiful sound than when the saints of God, the people of God, the church of God comes together and we sing the songs of God and we worship God. But worship it doesn't stop when we end this service and we walk off this property. That's when love really begins. We walk out of here. Worship is uh is an act, worship is a decision every day, and when I choose To love and to walk in love in the way that Jesus models it, it is a fragrant, it is a fragrant offering, it is an act of worship. When I love people the way that Jesus demonstrates how to love. And sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is it to sing another worship song. Man, listen, but I I love, listen, we love to sing, but rather to walk in love in the ordinary places of life at home, at work, in traffic, in conflict. And Paul goes on in the next few verses, three through five, and he he contrasts what is the antithesis, or what is the opposite? What is true selfishness? And he says, sexual immorality, greed, impurity are the things that he mentions in verses three through five. And he says, these things are the antithesis. They are the opposite. They are not congruent with what it is to be a child of God that walks in the love of God. So love is the motive behind how we walk and how we treat people, how we share the gospel. And so he commands us to walk in love, but that's not the only command. He says also, walk as children of light. Walk as children of light. Now that sounds great. What does that mean? That's the second command. Walk as children of light. He says in verse 8, for you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. Testing what is pleasing to the Lord. Don't participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them, for it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. Everything exposed by the light is made visible, for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said, get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. That's a great way to wake up your kids before school. Wake up, sleeper. Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. I tried that once. Didn't go. My daughter loved it. She just started singing. My son's, I think, threw things, but Paul's telling us, hey, the motive by which we walk in love, he's trying to help us understand the motive. He said, you can have the right motive and still destroy relationships if you don't walk in the light as children of light. He's saying, walk differently, walk in a changed way, walk as children of light. Glenn Graham says this: this phrase denotes persons to whom God's truth has been revealed and whose lives are lived in accordance with that truth. So when we talk about children of light, he's saying these are God's children. These are people who have heard the revelation of God, heard what Scripture teaches, and they've adjusted their life to it. In a second, he's going to describe what the opposite of that is, which is a fool. Someone who hears the truth and might even smile at it and acknowledge it, but they walk away as if they've heard nothing. And their life doesn't change at all. And so Paul says, once in darkness, but now you're the light, you're in the light of the Lord. And this is transformation. This is life change. It doesn't mean we have to pretend to be perfect. What it means is we don't have to live hiding things anymore. Bring it out into the light. And let me tell you, listen, a church that understands this, we don't kill each other. We don't throw stones at each other. We love each other even in our imperfections. Hey, listen, if there needs to be a confrontation, if there needs to be a difficult, listen, there's times where church discipline or confrontation needs to happen, but we can still do that with a spirit of love. It's important to understand this. Darkness creates distance. Darkness creates suspicion. Darkness creates duplicity, double, like living a double life. When we live in the dark, we aren't known. If we aren't fully known, then we can't be completely loved. And so light is different. Light brings clarity, builds trust, allows for healing to happen. Your relationships can't feel loved by a version of you that isn't real. And this is why we're told to be the people of light. And he goes on to say what the fruit of light is: goodness. Goodness, not a vague moral quality. It literally means someone who acts in a benevolent way. A person who lives and walks with generosity. It shows they care, not by saying they care, but by showing they care. Benevolence, which is giving or helping someone in need, generosity, giving of ourselves. God has blessed us. Listen, even in a questionable economy, we are the most blessed people on the planet. And the way we handle our finances ought to be a direct result of the fact that we are the children of light. He says, righteousness, the standard that is shaped by God's word. Righteousness is the life ordered according to the truth of God revealed in Scripture. Right living, righteous standing before a holy God that comes through a relationship with Jesus. And then he says, truth. And this isn't just an intellectual understanding of truth or an intellectual pursuit, but it's a commitment to honesty and to transparency that undergirds this goodness and this righteousness that he's talking about. So the question isn't, do I love them? It's also, is my life producing goodness, righteousness, and truth for people around me? People closest to me, the people that matter to me the most, because your private life eventually affects your relationships. Part of walking in light is exposing the fruitless works of darkness, Paul said. What can darkness look like in our lives? It can look like a lot of things, but sometimes it's just avoiding hard conversations because we want to keep the peace. That's called dysfunction. Emotional shutdown, it's saying I'm fine, but but really you're struggling. Secret habits, things that you watch, money that you spend, flirtatious behavior, use of substances or abuse of substances, half-truth, selective honesty, image management, all of these things are fruit of dark, the fruit of darkness. I don't know if you've ever walked into one of your children's bedrooms. And you were immediately overwhelmed by an odor. And even left unchecked, that odor can make its way down a hallway into the main part of your house, and even as you open the front door, it's like, oh my goodness. That happened one time with us, and we we couldn't figure out where it was coming from. We knew it was coming from a certain bedroom. That child shall remain nameless at this point, but it's it's one of three, you know that. And so they had spilled milk. You know where this is going, don't you? And rather than handling it the proper way, they went and got a tile, a towel out of the linen closet, and and just sopped all the milk up. And they took that towel and they threw it in the back corner of their bedroom closet. Darkness. Things change in darkness. Things rot in darkness. So we had to we had to go into the deep, dark areas and dig and uncover. And then we had to go find that child after they'd run away. And bring them back. Listen, this is this is what sin will do. Sin can innocently start with just a simple thought, but lead to a behavior that leads to a cover-up, that leads to more dark, hidden behavior, but it will never go unnoticed permanently. It will always come out somehow. Whether it's a smell or or or maybe you notice it in the character of someone close to you. It will, listen, this is what sin does. Sin takes things and puts them in the dark places of your life and wants to keep it secret. And it matters because when you live in the dark, things grow, they spread, they stink up. Not just that towel, not just that closet. Eventually, they'll stink up the whole stinking household. And the reality is, there's no telling what it might take to get it back right. Thank you, Jesus, for being cleansing and healing to our hearts. And so he says, walk in love. He commands us to walk in love. Don't forget what it means. Walk as children of light. And then he says, thirdly, walk wisely or walk carefully. He says in verse 15, pay careful attention then how to how you walk, not as unwise people, but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So don't be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is, and don't get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. He said, pay attention to how you walk. Pay attention. Some translation says walk circumspectively. And it's this idea of looking around. Spectively means to look, and then circum means to look around. You ever heard of the phrase keep your head on a swivel? Keep your head on a swivel in life. It means be aware of what's going around you, being aware of what's happening. It was said that Charles, Charles Purgeon, probably one of the greatest few preachers in the history of the church. He said that he would have the Bible in one hand and he would have the newspaper in the other hand, and he would look at what was happening in the world, and he wouldn't be overwhelmed with it because he would translate what was happening in the world through Scripture. And so to look carefully, to be watchful, to be vigilant, it means we stop living life on cruise control and we turn on intentionality. We take responsibility. And Paul's reminders that we don't have unlimited time, unlimited energy, unlimited resources, unlimited opportunities, unlimited opportunities to repair, apologize, to encourage and to be present. Wisdom asks the question: what is, in light of my past, and in light of where I am right now, and in light of where I want to be in the future, what is the wisest decision I could make in this moment? And he says in this passage, he gives two imperatives. And he says, do not get drunk with wine. But rather, that's first imperative, do not get drunk with wine. I'm not going to go off on a tangent about drinking. The Bible does not say it's a sin to have a drink, but it does say this. It said it's a sin to get drunk. And this is what we we taught our kids say, hey, listen, you're going to reach an age at an age where you have a freedom, but we've always been very honest and transparent about how alcohol has affected our family lineage. Our generational curses largely come from substance abuse and alcohol abuse. And so Paul's saying, hey, you can be under the influence of wine, or here's the other imperative, the command. He says, be filled with the Holy Spirit. Because here's what he's saying. You're going to be under the influence of something. So why don't you make a wise decision and choose to be under the influence of the Holy Spirit rather than under the influence, under the influence of the substance. That's what he's saying. He's saying that when you walk in love, you stop treating people as obstacles and start treating them as neighbors. When you walk in light, you stop hiding, you start healing. When you walk in wisdom, you stop drifting and start choosing to make the most use of your time. You know, I thought about this past week when I was reading this passage and thinking about examples of what it means to walk in love, I couldn't help but think of several, and one of them is my mom. On May 16th, it'll be a year since she stepped into eternity with Jesus. But the other thought I the other thought that came to my mind was we hosted a memorial, a homegoing celebration here just over a week ago. And my friend Skip, I didn't ask him permission. I hope he'll forgive me. My friend Skip here, his wife of 52 years, Skip sitting right down here on the front row, his wife of 52 years stepped into eternity a couple of weeks ago. But as I listen to me, listen to me. He began to tell me his story. His wife had a debilitating stroke 18 years ago. And for most of those years, he was able to care for her, even take her with him as he traveled to do his job. But in the last two years, she's been bedridden. Listen to me, listen to me. There's no greater example than a man or a woman who will lay down their life for the person that they love and that they are in covenant with. No greater example, Jesus even said this, no greater example love one man lay his life down for another. And to watch a husband andor to watch a wife care for that person that God had joined them together with in covenant, what a beautiful picture and story of love. And to watch Skip's family surround him and honor him and respect him and to show the fruit to demonstrate in their own life and how they talked about their mom to demonstrate all of that and to know this story. I thought, man, that is an example of love. Walk in love, walk as the children of light. And walk wisely. Listen, because our time is short. Come, Lord Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus. We should never be more motivated than right now to share our faith, to invest and invite in other people than the day that we live in right now. The chaos around us in the midst of all this chaos, in the midst of all this chaos, there's a room right here in Walnut Grove where there's people gathered in the name of Jesus who we listen, we don't have it all figured out, but there's a piece that is in this room right now because we are honoring and lifting up the name of Jesus. So you bow your heads with me. We serve a God who has demonstrated his love in this way that while we were yet still sinners, Christ died for us. And he has called us to walk in that love. He has called us to follow the model of Jesus. He's called us to carry the mantle. He gave the church the keys. And he told us to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. We saw this example this morning, this young lady, this beautiful young lady that gives a testimony that says, I've given my life to Jesus. And he has made a difference in my life. And I'm asking you, do you have the same testimony that you at some point realize that you needed Jesus in your life and in your heart? And if you haven't, if you don't have that testimony, I want to encourage you this morning to put your faith in Jesus, to trust him, to trust him maybe for the first time in your life. Repent and believe, he said. And so if you've never put your faith in Jesus, would you just pray something like this? It doesn't, the exact words are not the issue. It's what's happening in your heart, but it might be something like this where you just say, God, I'm I I need you. I know that I'm a sinner, I know that I'm separated from you, but I now put my faith in Jesus. I believe. I believe. I believe what the scripture says is true. I believe that he lived and that he died and that he rose again. And that he sits at the right hand of the Father to pray for for me, and I trust you and give you my life. And the Bible says if you repent and believe and pray something along those lines, and you are sincere about life change, He promises, He promises to save you, to give you a new heart, and to help you and to walk with you. He encourages you to get connected to a body, to a church, to a small group, to others. He commands us to follow in baptism. He commands us to connect with the local church. And if you are a believer that's here, you're a you're a uh maybe a husband here with your wife or a or or a son here to celebrate your mother. Can I just encourage you? Don't let it end here. Consider what Christ could do if you would give him a chance to transform your heart. For those of us that are the church, Lord, help us to walk in love that represents Jesus to a broken world. Help us to walk as the children of light, bringing things out of the dark, living with transparency, showing the world, hey, we're we're a bunch of hurt, messed up people gathering because we have a God that loves hurt, messed up people. God, help us to walk wisely. Redeeming the time. Father, we love you. We come to you to say, What a God, what a God, we love you. You are worthy of every song, you're worthy of every word, you are worthy of every breath that we take. You are worthy of every hallelujah. You are worthy of every glory to God. You are worthy of us singing and acknowledging who you are, that you are a God worthy of all of our worship, worthy of how we walk. It's in Jesus' name. We pray. Amen. Won't you stand up as we close? Now I want to encourage you. If you're in one of those categories that I talked about this morning, you want to give your heart to Jesus, I want you to feel free to come and speak to one of us. Monty is here. Uh, Russ Greer is down here. My friend Skip would be so honored to pray with you. If you want somebody to encourage you this morning, I'd love to have a couple of our ladies that are leaders and and uh that might be available to pray. If you're a mom and you feel like, hey, I'm glad y'all are celebrating moms, but I feel like I'm on my last leg and I'm about to, I'm about to, things feel like they're about to fall apart, and you need somebody to pray for you, please come. Please come. We'd be honored to pray with you.