You Are More Than You’ve Been Told: Unlock a Fresh Way to Live Through the Rhythms of Jesus

Scriptures: Matthew 11:28-29, John 10:10, Romans 8:31, Romans 8:37-39

DAY 1: A Fresh Way to Live

Have you ever felt disconnected from yourself, or from God? Have you ever lost a sense of who you really are, the direction for your life, and have felt weighed down? 

If so, you’re not crazy. And you’re not alone. 

That was me. I lost who I was. I was in a spiral of self-defeat. I was overwhelmed and over it. I felt disconnected from myself, from God, and any sense of inner peace. 

I set out to answer this question: 

How can we know who we really are–and live like it–every single day? 

When life does not turn out the way that we planned. When the words and opinions of other people have grown increasingly loud. When the wounds from our past have taught us the wrong narrative about ourselves. When our worth becomes found in what we do, what we provide, or what we produce. 

Is there a way to know who we really are? There is. 

That’s what we will unpack in this 7 day devotional, based on my book, You Are More Than You’ve Been Told.

There is a new way to live—a personal, doable, refreshing lifestyle that might not look like everyone else’s, but that truly enables you to live as you’ve been created to live. 

While I was in that weary season, weighed down and worn out, I started to study the lifestyle of Jesus, to see how He was able to live lightly and peacefully despite the pressures of culture and the expectations and ever-changing opinions of others. It was not easy, but I was tired of half-living. 

Through learning the unforced rhythms of Jesus, and practicing His habits, I grew closer to Him. And the closer I got to Him, the closer I felt to the core of who I really was. 

You might feel stuck, but you are not stuck. You will discover who you really are when you spend real time with the One who knows you the best. 

This must become more than an inspirational concept for us. If we are to truly find the confidence and clarity we are searching for, this must become practical. I love when our heads are in, hopes are high, and hands are raised, but I’m also a hands-on kind of person. I want to know who I am. But I also must know how.

That is what we will unlock—a practical way to reconnect with yourself, and with God. Tangible tools to live lighter and freer. 

First, let’s identify some of the lies that have been holding us back and the burdens we have been carrying. Take a deep breath, take some time, and ask yourself these questions: 

• Who are you listening to? Whose opinions do you care the most about? What authority do they have to define you? 
• What battles are you fighting? Where are you putting your time and energy? Are you fighting the battles God has called you to fight? Or is the Enemy perhaps distracting you with lesser battles? 
• What names are you answering to? Names like Unworthy, Unwanted, or Unloved? Or names like Loved, Wanted, and Chosen? What you think about yourself determines how you live. 
• What story are you living out? The false stories we have believed about ourselves trap us in the wrong patterns of living. What is a story that has shaped how you see yourself? 

When we identify the lies in our lives, we are better equipped to heal from them and move past them. 

Then, we will unlock God’s truths. 

• No one has the power to define you but the One who created you. 
• God’s voice must be the loudest voice in our lives. 
• God’s lens must be the lens that we see ourselves through. 

This is what we will unpack. It’s time to reconnect with God. It’s time to take back your time, reclaim your mind, and refresh your life. 

Through His words, His lifestyle, and His habits, Jesus is going to show us how. 

Prayer

God, I want to reconnect with You, and with who I really am. I want to crush the lies that have held me back for too long. I want to know how You see me and see my life. I want to live the life You’ve created me to live. I’m ready to start a new journey with You. Amen.

Scriptures: Mark 9:17-29, Luke 10:18-20, 1 Corinthians 4:20

DAY 2: Unlocking Breakthrough

Even when you’ve identified voices, old names, and old stories, and even been set free from some things that held you back; you and I can still have deep wounds, walls, and fears that we struggle with. What do we do then? 

Is real, tangible, down-to-earth breakthrough in your tired heart and actual day-to-day life even possible? It is. And it’s both deeply spiritual and refreshingly practical. 

There’s a story in Mark 9 where the disciples were not able to have the breakthrough they wanted. A father wants them to pray for healing for His son, and cast an evil spirit out, but they were not able to. This is strange because they were a part of otheramazing miracles, and profound breakthroughs in the name of Jesus. But at this moment, they could not achieve the breakthrough they wanted. 

I know many of us can relate, as we’ve overcome many difficult things in our lives, and yet some things feel like they continue to overpower us. 

When they asked Jesus why they weren’t able to have a breakthrough in this instance, Jesus replied, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer.” (Mark 9:29) 

Prayer is a physical expression of dependence on God. Through honest, surrendered prayer we are declaring to God what we cannot do in our own power, and what we can only do in His. 

Jesus was saying this: There is some breakthrough that you will want to have—and you can have—but you will not have unless you are fully surrendered to and dependent on Him alone. 

So perhaps they were praying. Perhaps they were depending on God. But perhaps they were also depending on something else as well. 

Can anyone else relate? I know I can. Perhaps we’re relying on God, but also some of our own power, or our own strategies that may have worked before. One hand is open, surrendered to God, but the other is holding tight to our own methods and preferences. Lots of glory to God, but also some of the glory to us. 

Perhaps this is why we are not moving in the power God has given us. 

The truth is this: You already have power and authority over the lies spoken over you and the weapons the Enemy has used against you. The problem is not in the power. The problem is in our own practices– the ways we refuse to surrender our strategies, preferences, and pride in order to be wholly dependent on the power of God alone. 

Paul challenged us, saying, “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.” (1 Corinthians 4:20) 

Breakthrough doesn’t come from our wisdom, our intelligence, our resume, our slick speeches, or the court of public opinion. It comes only from the power of God. God is not calling His church to just be current, relevant, or impressive; no, instead He is saying, I want my Church to be a place of power, where people are filled with my power, and praying in power, and moving in power, and are being transformed by the resurrecting power of Jesus. 

A lot of kingdoms have talk. God’s kingdom has power. 

For breakthrough to happen, we must be more than people who have signed on for good Christian living. We must be people surrendered to Jesus and dependent on His power in our everyday lives. Is breakthrough possible? It is. From a position of dependence on God. 

So here is an important question:

What do you need to surrender to God today? 

Find time to be alone with God today, and talk to Him about it. Give it to Him. Both hands open. Fully transparent. Surrender anything that might stand in the way of full dependence on God. 

Prayer

God, I surrender what I have held back from You. I turn away from the ways I have relied on my own power or talents. I have areas of my life that need Your power to break strongholds. I give them to You. I rely on you alone. I turn away from my sins. I commit my whole life to You. Amen.

Scriptures: John 15:4-11, 1 John 2:6

DAY 3: A Trellis Life

A phone call with a friend changed my life. 

I wondered, “How do we literally reconnect with God? How do we practically depend on His power?” 

I was in the midst of that weary season, and needed a practical answer. Growing up, I heard it said that the way to live your life with the power of God moving in you was to abide in Christ. It comes from John 15. Jesus says, “I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you abide in Me and I in you, you will bear great fruit. Without Me, you will accomplish nothing.” (John 15:5) 

Simple enough, right? 

Right. Except for me, “abide in Christ” slowly became a spiritual and delightful but empty phrase. I did not understand how to do it practically, so I often dismissed it. But Jesus said this was the key to the breakthrough we want, and the life we long for. So there must be a practical way to do it. 

I called my friend who has spent years studying vineyards, soil, growth patterns, and weather systems all over the world. I wanted to know how branches stayed connected to vines in storms, through intense weather, and if there was anything else she could teach me about the relationship between the two. 

She told me, “Technically, yes, branches just need to be connected to the vine to live, but they really need a trellis. They need a structure to help them stay connected to the vine, hold them up, and grow and flourish to their full potential.” 

She explained how a trellis is a wooden or metal structure or framework that is mainly used as a support for fruit trees or plants. It made sense. 

Then I asked, “Wait, without a trellis, can the branches still live if they are only connected to the vine?” 

She responded, “Yes. All that the branches need to survive is to be connected to the vine. However, though the branches can still live without a structure, without it, they will constantly be weighed down. They will be carrying weight they weren’t meant to carry. And they’ll be fighting an uphill battle they don’t have to fight.” 

Wow. 

Is anyone else feeling weighed down today? 

• Perhaps you want breakthrough, healing, and a flourishing life, but you feel 
• weighed down from the expectations of others, 
• weighed down from the demands at both home and work, 
• weighed down from your feelings of failure, 
• weighed down with fear of the future, and uncertainty of what’s to come. 

It is possible that you and I are carrying weights we were never meant to carry. It is possible you and I are fighting an uphill battle we don’t have to fight. 

The trellis—the structure—helps carry the weight so the branches can stayconnected to the source. If branches carry too much on their own, they will eventually break apart—and break off from the vine. 

Jesus is the Source of life. A structure helps us stay connected to our Source. Simply put, the structure helps us to… abide. 

Breakthrough is possible. How?

Through full dependence on God. How?

Through abiding in Christ. How?

Through choosing and committing to a structure of habits that keep us connected to Jesus.

What we are talking about is a practical, personal, tangible plan to live the lives we were created to live. We are talking about a trellis–a structure of spiritual disciplines, to help us live lighter and freer, and truly connect with God. This will look like implementing rhythms in our daily, weekly, and monthly schedules. And we are going to take these rhythms from Jesus himself. 

First, a word of caution and a truth that cannot be overstressed–Spiritual habits and practices are not what save you and are not what give you life. These practices are not the point. They are all a means to an end. The goal is to be close to Jesus. The point is to be connected to Jesus. The practices only serve the purpose of abiding in Jesus. 

There is no power in the structure. There is only power in the Source. The structure’s only function is to help you stay connected to the Source, Jesus Himself. 

Reconnecting with Jesus Christ, our Savior. Knowing Jesus for real. That’s the whole point. 

Prayer

Jesus, I want to know You for real. I have felt disconnected from You and from myself. I can see the places in my life where I have felt weighed down, and I need a new structure. Help me see the practical ways to reconnect. Help me build out a new structure, and begin a new rhythm to connect with You in a fresh way. I am ready. Amen.

Scriptures: Matthew 4:1-11, John 15:15, 1 Thessalonians 1:4, Ephesians 2:10, 1 Corinthians 6:19, Acts 1:8, Galatians 3:26, Romans 5:8, John 8:36, 2 Corinthians 5:17

DAY 4: How Jesus Did It

Jesus accomplished what we hope to. He shut down the lies of the Enemy and lived out His God-given purpose here on earth. 

Let’s unpack how He did it. Jesus gave us a behind-the-scenes look at His rhythms and His life’s structure, to show us how we can defeat the lies of the Enemy as well. 

In Matthew 4, we find Jesus alone with God, praying and fasting from food in the desert for forty days and forty nights. The devil approached Jesus. He saw an opportunity to try to take down the Savior of the world. So, what did the Enemy do? What was his evil and powerful plan? 

He didn’t come with an arsenal of rusty weapons, an army of demonic soldiers. The devil decided his best plan was to try to make Jesus doubt who He was. He wanted Jesus to second-guess if He really was the Son of God. He hoped Jesus would answer to a lesser name, then live a lesser life, and then never live out the purpose God had for Him. The Enemy uses this same tactic with us. He knows how valuable your life is, and how important your choices are, so he will use his best weapons—lies and doubt—to try to take you down as well. He cannot risk you knowing who you are and living the life you were created to live. 

When Satan came at Jesus three times with lies, manipulation, coercion, and temptation, Jesus came back at him with Deuteronomy 8:3; 6:16; and 6:13. (Read more in Matthew 4) Then, the devil left Jesus. 

Jesus fought what was spoken with what is written. When the Enemy comes at us with lies about who we are, we need something more stable than what we are feeling. We need to know what God has written. 

When I was in that painful season, and forgetting who I was, I had to fight for real time with God–to be alone with Him, to engage with His Word, and make His voice the loudest voice in my life. Then, I started memorizing the names that God gives me. 

I don’t know what ways the Enemy has tried to lie to you. You may have been told that you’re not enough, that you’re unworthy, unwanted, or unloved. But you are more than you’ve been told. God has some other names for you. It is written: 

John 15:15 – Friend of God. You are not alone. Jesus is with you. He has your back. He’s in your corner. 

1 Thessalonians 1:4 – Chosen. You are not here by accident. You are made for this moment, right where you are, the way you are, because the Creator of the universe said it was important for you to be here. 

Ephesians 2:10 – God’s Masterpiece. You are the handiwork of the Artist of the heavens and the earth. Your details are important. You are a work of art meticulously made to accomplish the good works of God. 

1 Corinthians 6:19 – Temple. No matter who took advantage of you, and no matter what you feel you lost because of your choices, when you give your life to Christ, God’s Word calls your body a temple, the place where the Holy Spirit dwells. Your body is good. 

Acts 1:8 – Messenger. God calls us “witnesses” of the love and power of Jesus, and “messengers” of the gospel to those right next to us, and to the whole world. God wants to use your real story to reveal the real love of Jesus. 

Galatians 3:26 – Child of God. We don’t have to live in fear of the future, or live trying to prove our worth. When you give your life to Jesus, you can trust, rest, enjoy, and take steps of faith like children who are safe and loved. 

Romans 5:8 – Greatly Loved. You are so loved that even while you were running away from God, He was running after you. He sent His Son Jesus to die for you so you could be free, forgiven, and reconnected with God. He wants you to enjoy life with Him now and for eternity. 

John 8:36 – Free, Indeed. You may be living in chains you don’t have to live in anymore. Give them to God. Surrender them to God. Live as the free Child of God you really are. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 – Brand New. Jesus is a brand-new beginning. With Him, you are a brand new creation with an entirely different life. 

As I fought for time with God, I got closer to Him than I ever imagined. And then I started to see myself through His lens. 

Out of that season, I wrote a spoken word piece called, “I Have A New Name.” (You can stream it on all platforms, and watch the video below.) In it, I declare these 9 names and truths from the Word of God. 

When you know who you are, it changes how you live.

Just as Jesus fought for time with God, and defeated the lies of the enemy, we can too. 

In the following days, we will unlock 4 rhythms of Jesus that will show us how. 

It’s time to live as who we really are. 

Prayer

Thank You, Jesus, for giving me an example of how to defeat the lies of the Enemy. I don’t want him to have any victory over my life. I want to follow You and the way You lived. Please give me the courage. I want to know what God says about me and live as who I really am. Amen.

Scriptures: Romans 12:2, Luke 2:41-46, Mark 1:35, Luke 5:15-16

DAY 5: The Rhythms of Scripture and Prayer

In the next couple of days, we will unpack 4 rhythms of Jesus that connected Him to God and to who He really was. I want to help you make these habits practical in your everyday life. 

A Rhythm of Scripture

While Jesus was growing up, we see Him studying God’s Word (see Luke 2:41–52). In this story, Jesus leaves the path His family was on, goes out of His way to discover the truth about Himself and the truth about God, and to be in the Temple around people who were also talking about God. Jesus showed us that truth might be something we have to go out of our way to discover. 

It’s time to ask yourself a very real and pressing question. Not just are you reading God’s Word, but how are you reading it? Is it in a way that is bringing you closer to God? 

Don’t let the Enemy convince you that knowing what God says about you is just a religious box you must check every day, or else. Remember the point is not the structure. Reading God’s book of truths is meant to connect you to the Source of life, which is Jesus. If you find reading it is a chore, or not life-giving, then you may need a fresh new way to know what God says. 

You may want to use a devotional plan and engage with a friend about what you learn. You may want to listen to it audibly while taking a walk. You may want to find a new translation. You may want to read it at a different time of day than you’ve been reading it. Take a few minutes to stop and consider your lifestyle, your personality, how you engage, how you enjoy, and what is doable. 

Just like Jesus, you might have to go out of your way to know what God says about you. This is urgent. Make engaging with God’s words one of the most important priorities in your life. 

A Rhythm of Prayer

God wants to hear from you about the pressing things on your heart, your worries, your desires, your hopes, and your fears. He wants to be involved in the innermost parts of your life. Jesus regularly went out of His way to be alone with God (Luke 5:15–16, Mark 1:32-38). After a full day of healing people, helping people, and performing miracles, lots of people had opinions of where Jesus should go and what He should do. Instead, Jesus spent time alone with God to discern where God was calling Him to next. 

Remember, before Jesus fought the lies of the Enemy in the desert, he was alone with God for 40 days. Time alone with God is a weapon, a way to fight the lies of the Enemy, and also the pressures and expectations of our everyday lives. 

Here are 3 practices of prayer that have reconnected me to God in profound new ways: 

Solitude – Being alone with your thoughts and with God to remember who you are and to hear yourself think. Try to notice the pauses of life. During a quiet moment, don’t rush to scroll on your phone, or to turn on more noise. Look for pauses, sit in the pauses, and use them for moments of silence and solitude and to reconnect with God. 

Specific Prayers – Pray specifically about things you are struggling with and ask God to bring you peace and healing. This might look like writing some of your prayers, hurts, and worries down. Specific prayers are an invitation for God to inspect your heart, heal you, and make you whole. We often cannot heal from what we cannot name. Take the time to name your sins, your scars, and your desires, and bring them each to God. 

Saying Thanks – Being thankful in prayer will strengthen your relationship with God. God invites you to pause and see what He’s already done, and worship Him with a grateful heart. Remembrance and gratitude is a key to reconnecting with God. 

Honest conversations with the One who created you will realign your life, revive your faith, and refresh your soul.

Add these two rhythms into your life’s structure, your trellis. They will help you reconnect with God and live lighter and freer. 

Prayer

Thank You, God, that You are always available. I want to spend more time with You. Help me to find fresh ways to learn from You and engage in Your words. Help me find moments of pause and to create a new structure of prayer in my life. I thank You that I can pray specifically for things that are in my heart, and I thank You for who You are and all that You’ve done. Amen.

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 7:23, Exodus 20:8-11, James 5:16, Acts 2:42-44

DAY 6: The Rhythms of Rest and Real Community

Today is a beautiful day to reconnect with Jesus. Two more rhythms of Jesus that will help us grow closer to Him and be more like Him are Rest and Real Community. 

Rest, Sabbath, and Freedom

Jesus’ rhythm of rest and Sabbath was a way of reconnecting with Himself and with God. It was also a rhythm of resistance—a way to resist the ungodly, unfruitful, and life-depleting demands of culture’s view of success. The Enemy wants you to find your value in your accolades, notoriety, productivity, trophies, and networks. God wants you to know who you are without all of it. Rest as a rhythm will help you. 

Interwoven into the fabric of creation was a rhythm of weekly rest. When we find ourselves overwhelmed, exhausted, depleted, and feeling disconnected from ourselves, perhaps we are living on a beat that is not consistent with the rhythm we were created for (Exodus 20:8–11). There is a way to get back on the beat. 

By enjoying Sabbath rest, you are acknowledging and celebrating every week that your value is found in God, not what you do. 

You will not find who you are in your accomplishments, accolades, or the applause of others. You will find who you are in abiding in Jesus Christ—knowing Him for real and resting in His presence, knowing you are loved without producing one thing. 

Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” (Mark 2:27) We must remember that the structure is not the point. A close and real relationship with God is the point. This means your structure of rest might not look exactly like my structure of rest. And that is okay! (I share more practical ways to enjoy Sabbath in my book, You Are More Than You’ve Been Told. Read for more.) 

Sabbath rest is a gift from God so that you can live freely and fully. It’s the best day of the week. It’s twenty-four hours of posturing your day to delight in the One who created you, living aware of what He has given you, and knowing you are valuable without doing. 

Even if you can’t do it as you hope to one day do it, the important thing is that you start. 

This week–Do whatever it takes to plan for, set aside time for, and incorporate this kind of rest into your life—to stop, rest, and delight in God. 

Real Community

Just as the Enemy hopes you are too busy to rest, he hopes you’re too busy, distracted, and depleted to engage in real relationships. 

While on earth, Jesus constantly lived out this rhythm as He spent time with friends, relaxing, eating, and celebrating. 

Resisting a culture that praises individualism and practicing a lifestyle of authentic community helps you connect with others, yourself, and God. 

Here are two ways to practice this: 

Confession

The Enemy does his best work in the dark. If we want actual victory in the places where we feel held back, we must bring what was hidden into the light. Put simply, when you speak out loud about what’s been holding you down, the Enemy begins to lose his grip. There is actual healing in confession. Jesus’ brother James instructed us, “Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed.” (James 5:16) When we vocally confess our sins, our struggles, and our worries to another person, and pray for one another, we will live lives that are more healed and more whole. 

Celebration

When I have dismissed celebration as a spiritual discipline in my life, I’ve found myself disconnected from myself, people, and God. Richard Foster, in his book Celebration of Discipline, said, “Celebration is central to all the Spiritual Disciplines. Without a joyful spirit of festivity, the Disciplines become dull, death-breathing tools in the hands of modern Pharisees.” 

We must remember that this is a rhythm of Jesus, and it’s a glimpse into eternity. 

The picture we are given of heaven is a picture of a community in celebration. The crowd will be “too huge to count… all nations and tribes, all races and languages (Rev. 7:9-10),” we will all be singing to God together (Rev. 5), and all feasting at a table together (Matt. 8:11). It makes sense that celebration in authentic community is a spiritual practice God longs for us to have. We are literally practicing how we will live in heaven. It also makes sense why this is something the Enemy wants us to be rid of, ignore, and make no time for. He knows how it turns our souls toward God. 

Celebration may be a lost habit. But in our marriages, families, friend groups, and churches… we can find it again. 

A rhythm of confessing and celebrating in community will help us live lighter and freer, with more peace and more joy. Let’s embrace the life God created us for. Let’s practice heaven. 

Prayer

Thank You, Lord, for time to rest and enjoy being Your child. Help me see the ways I need to realign my life’s structure so that I can fully embrace the life You have for me. Help me be brave as I seek out ways to confess and celebrate. I don’t want to miss out on true rest or real community. I don’t want to miss out on one thing You have for me. Amen.

Scriptures: Deuteronomy 31:8, Psalms 34:18, John 14:26-27

DAY 7: Jesus in Your Story

Jesus wants to redeem your story and refresh your life. Still, for some of us, there are wounds that cut so deep, we’re not sure if we can ever be healed from them. For some of us, there are painful stories that have defined us and shaped the lens through which we see ourselves, and we’re not sure how to move past them. 

The people that said those words to you that you will never forget. 

The house that started to no longer feel like a home. 

The moment you realized the people you loved and looked up to were not who you thought they were. 

The day you realized your life wouldn’t be what you thought it would be. 

The people you thought would stay, but didn’t. 

The people you thought would defend you, but didn’t. 

The words you longed to hear, but never did. 

Do any stories like this come to mind? How can the deepest wounds be healed? 

I have held onto some wounds in my life for far too long. Hurtful words from family members when I was young, lies from those I loved, deep pain from moments of betrayal, and consuming feelings of failure. 

These wounds eventually became walls. When I set out to reconnect with myself, with God, and began a new structure of abiding–a new trellis, a new way of living–I learned something new. I want you to have the tool that has set me free from hurts I never thought I would be free from. 

Put Jesus in the story.

In this painful memory, what details come to mind, what sounds surround you, and what feelings are stirred up in you? Give yourself the space and time needed to go back to that place. 

Now where is Jesus? What does His face look like as He looks at you? What does He feel toward you at this moment? What words would He say to you? 

You might not have known His words before you personally knew Him, before you got close to Him, before you engaged with His words and with His people. But now, with your new rhythms, you know more of what Jesus has said about you. How does what you know of Jesus now change how you see Jesus then? 

Friend, perhaps now you can get from Jesus what no one else was able to give you. 

Jesus does not only want to redeem you from what happened. He wants to redeem those painful moments, those painful memories, and give to you what no one else could. 

He wants to tell you in that classroom where people told you that you’re not good enough, “You are loved and worthy. They have no right to name you.” 

He wants to tell you in that bedroom where someone made you feel powerless and worthless, “You are loved and valuable. They have no right to take this from you.” 

He wants to tell you in that living room where you felt like everyone was against you and no one was fighting for you, “You are loved and worth fighting for. They have no right to define you.” 

Jesus was there when we were hurting. And the same words He says to us today, He was saying then. 

You deserve to stop seeing yourself through the broken lens of others. When you see yourself through the lens of God and how He sees you, you will see yourself for who you really are and who you’ve always been. 

It turns out, He’s not just giving you a new name. He’s telling you who you always were. You’ve always been: Chosen. Invited. Welcomed. And worth fighting for. 

The truth is this: You were loved, valued, and wanted all along. 

Prayer

Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You are and always have been in my story. I have never been alone. Please redeem those stories in my past that still need healing, and help me to walk confidently in faith with You at my side, into the next circumstance. I want to realign my life to rest in You more, know You more, and know the lens through which You see me. I commit my life to you, and I want to follow you forever. Amen.