Hey y'all, I am currently at the airport about to travel to North Africa for 2.5 weeks for work and vacation - while I am very excited for this trip, I am also nervous for a variety of reasons - I'd appreciate prayers for the following: - That I would continue to seek God and connect with Him daily, really moment by moment, even though my regular schedule will be completely thrown offf - For protection - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual protection - I will be traveling by myself and I know that I can more vulnerable in that context. Pray that I would make good and wise decisions and resist any temptations and schemes of the evil one Thanks y'all!

As the Crucible comes to a close, I want to express my deepest gratitude to the Forge Tribe team. Thank you for your incredible investment over these impactful 40 days; I can only imagine the countless hours you’ve worked on our behalf. I am truly grateful for everything you’ve done.

Team, within these 40 days I had an issue with my knee degenerate rapidly. A small meniscus tear went from bad to worse; requiring surgery. I am now out of surgery and healing. However, it is a very challenging time for it to happen for two reasons. I was moved up to a new and important position at work, but I had to get surgery within my first five days of moving up. It was very awkward to have to ask for immediate time off. The other reason this is challenging is work is where I am weakest at faith. It is where I seek validation as a man. It is a very slippery slope into sin for me. I had started to address the issue in my heart and put things that were coming to light in the Crucible into practice on the battlefield. Now I’m sidelined. I’m feeling down for not working and also not working on good practices from the crucible in the field. So I ask for prayer for healing because it does need to heal correctly. I can mess it up if I try to do too much. But more importantly, to let go of my desire to work and earn healing (physically and spiritually). I still think I have something to do. Something to put into practice. Disciplines to cement into my life. But right now, I definitely can’t do much! So I ask for prayer to accept these challenges and to be changed by God outside of my own work (which my work is very little at this point). I would like to thank you for any prayer ahead of time and appreciate what is happening for all of us right now. Have a great day and God bless.

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