A WOW Moment - August 20 2020

Opening Banter and Technical Setup

Push the start button and it went. Ooooh. I don't think anybody asked you, ma 'am.

Alright. It was on display being turned down and I just had to finish it. You can't read upside down.

That's talent. I can, but... I'm trying to say... Some of these words upside down ain't gonna happen. Maybe that's why she...

You're gonna have to whisper that to me. That is why she was looking at the wrong end of the Bible. She had it upside down.

I'm just gonna... When I get to that word, I'm just gonna look at you. And then you can say it. I'm gonna say it just like that. Alright.

Is it time? It's time. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to our Bible study. As you know, I'm Vicki. Everyone remembers Mercedes. I don't know if she has a different color head shape or not. Well...

Nope. I do. Because it was after last week's Wild Moment that I changed it. Well, look down. I think it was that night. Look down. Look. You see orange in there now? It's not orange. Coral. Thank you, Elena.

Never will orange ever be in my hair. Anyways...

But everybody remembers Mercedes. Tonight, we have made the trip out to Fayette County. And we are at the lovely home of Miss Elena Everett. Elena, I want to thank you for having us tonight. It's very quiet here.

Elena has several boys. And it's kind of quiet. A little bit. A little quiet.

But it's on. It's really on. I feel like I've gone deaf or something. Huh? I don't know. What? That's how I feel when I leave work.

It's just so loud at work. It is loud at your work. But anyways, I want to welcome you all. Thank you all for coming tonight. I really hope that... When I found out what spiritual we were doing tonight, I was...

And I read over it today at work. I was like, This is going to be good because I know where a lot of our women are in church. I know where they're at mentally. And I know where they're at spiritually.

And I know that you don't know all of where they're at. But it's just amazing how the Lord has put this verse, either this is your go-to verse, or put this verse on your heart for tonight because it's a very...

It's a strong verse for me. It's strong scripture because it's several verses. So I hope that everyone enjoys it tonight. If you want to get your Bible out, you can. If not, you don't have to because after we read the scripture, as you all know, if you've watched before, we will be going from here to there and yonder because Flipper over there will go next.

Just wait. Just wait because you'll be talking to me about something and all you'll hear is... Oh, I've seen the videos.

And you say, Isn't that right, Mercedes? And she barely comes up for air, huh? If she answers. If you answer. If I answer. She is listening.

I hear you. I'm just not responding.

Once that trigger gets pulled, though, she's off for the races.

I'm excited about that, actually. That's my favorite part about watching these.

Is seeing what she comes up with. And how things get pulled from different areas. And it's a lot of fun. That's why we don't study beforehand. That's the main reason because this is our study. And I want everything to be fresh for us just like it's fresh for them.

And sometimes it gets very interesting on how the directions things go. Like the night we had Cindy on. Cindy had like five verses because she said, It depends on if I'm Cindy that feels this way or if I'm Cindy that feels this way.

It depends on what Cindy you're going to get for the day. Right.

So we went through all of them, I think.

That's her multiple personality. It was fun. It went really well. I liked hers. Yeah, yeah. She did really good.

She was a nervous wreck, too. So anyways, Elena. By the way, Elena has been at our church now for two years? Two and a half. Two and a half. Also a Sunday school teacher. Well, you're her husband, our Sunday school teacher.

Mostly him, yeah. Mostly him. Oh, yeah. We're not going to give him all the credit, though. I've been in there when you taught. Oh, yeah. So anyways, so if anybody wants to come visit, here's a Sunday school class you can go to.

So I noticed you've got it down bad, too.

It's because of what I do to avoid awkward situations where I have to talk. Away from afar, and then I feel like I'm okay. You're good. I'm good.

I've made contact. I've said hi. There's no nerves in the kitchen right now, Elena. None. So anyways, back to the verse you've chosen tonight. Is the verse that you've chosen tonight, is it your go-to verse,.

Or is it a verse that you've chosen? Probably. In the past few years, it's not really been a go-to verse as much as it seems to pop up in my study over and over again.

It's becoming possible.

It's probably my favorite passage in the Bible. There you go.

Daniel’s Faith in the Fiery Furnace

All right, and what is that passage?

Daniel 3, 16 through 18.

Mercedes, will you read Scripture, please? Yes.

Sorry, why are you trying to pronounce words? All right. 3, 16 through 18. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, We don't need to give you an answer to this question. If the God we serve exists, then he can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he can rescue us from the power of you, the king.

But if he does not rescue us, we want you as king to know that we will not serve your God to worship the gold statue you set up. So what does this mean?

You tell me that you keep coming to this verse. What does this verse mean to you, and what does it give you?

A lot of stuff that I've gone through in the past three or four years, it always comes back to me going, God, please take this from me, or God, help me with this. And then I come back to this, and it goes to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego right before they're thrown into the furnace.

They're saying, Our God will deliver us. My translation says that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning, fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand. But it also goes on to say, but if not.

So for me, it's God can and he will. We have to have that hope that he will, but even be able to say, but if not, I'm still going to put my faith in him, trust in him, do his will, not my own. And to me, that's something that I've, it's really helped me grow in the past probably three or four years.

Just remembering that. The faith. Mm-hmm. And having that hope that, you know, no matter what, whether it goes my way or not, whether he answers my prayer how I want him to or not, he's in control, his will be done, my hope will continue to be in him no matter what.

And you know that whatever answer you get is the one that is supposed to happen. It's a lot of control that you have to give up. Well, you don't have it anyway. Well, right, right.

It's your perception. Right, that's what I mean. That's what I mean. That was, that's a big thing with me was for a long time. I tried to control a lot that I thought I had control over. And... I didn't.

And once I let go of that, and I still struggle with it, I mean, on a daily basis, you know, the hardest prayer I've ever prayed is, God, I give you my kids. Just letting go of that, you have peace in it, but you have hope that God will take them farther than you ever could.

Well, and I have the same issue, which I know that you don't know a lot of the history of my marriage, but after 16 years of praying, it took me finally saying, God, you, and I'm not in control of his life.

You have all control. And, Lord, I just pray that your will be done in his life, whatever it may be. And when I finally said that prayer and meant that prayer, and I actually let go, things changed. And to this day, it's been, the prayer has been answered, plus.

So, I understand. So, I've also had to say that prayer for my children. My children are all grown now. And it's, even as having children, having grown children, it's just as hard. Because you think now it's hard, but when they creep out of your house, it's worse.

Because then all you can do is pray. And just, just stay in prayer. Especially when they're going crazy. Because most of them do. I'm not going to say all of them. But most of them do, and you do help.

They run wild. They're so cute, though. They're like Tasmanian devils, just swirling around my house. But they're so cute. Yes, that's what keeps them alive.

That's what keeps them alive. I noticed that you closed the blinds. I didn't know if you had any ropes out there or anything that you tied them to. I guess you were hiding it.

Way to bust her out, Vicki. Gee. I didn't see anything. No, they just swing like monkeys. They tore up the swing set on the playground, and now they just use the chains to swing like Tarzan. Oh. Yeah.

Well, there you go. But anyways,.

Usually we read the verse before and the verse afterwards to kind of get a grip of.

What's actually going on. But you know what? That's why I kind of chose all three of them.

In this one, you really don't have to do that. Yeah. It's, uh, oh, except for in verse 19, he says, he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times more. And it killed the men it carried.

Yep. Them up. It was so hot that they couldn't even go in there.

But if you keep on going through the rest of it, they were delivered. And they were unharmed. Yeah. It says, not a hair of their heads was singed. Their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.

And, I mean, in Isaiah 43, it actually, 43, one through, you can go one through two, but mostly two. But I'll go ahead and read the whole thing. Unless you want to read it. Go ahead. Okay. But now thus says the Lord, He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed you, O Israel,.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. That's part three, too. But I just wanted to have that in there. But, I just,.

Mercedes, you have been stuck in a fire. Mm-hmm. Did it hurt? Yeah. Yeah.

Yep. And once I finally said, All right, I'm done. It's yours. Whatever happens, happens.

First, I felt better. I felt clear. So clear. Because I couldn't, it was like I couldn't see my way through anything. And it was around the, it was right around the time of my job change. Yeah. And once I was able to see clear, I could breathe.

I slept fantastic that night. And then everything just started falling into place. Completely, I was completely blindsided by it all. I was not, I remember sitting down with Elena, actually. And she goes, Well, maybe, maybe this is God preparing you for something else.

And I went, That's fantastic, Elena, but this is my career we're talking about here? She didn't say that out loud. She was like, Yeah, okay. Yeah, I did. You're right. But in my head, I'm like, well, okay, but this is, you know, and then everything just fell into place where it was supposed to be.

And now I work with Witten Family, and I love my job. So yeah, I've been through, I've been through some fires.

And you don't have a scar of one? Nope. Not one. Can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.

It's one of those things where when you look back, you go,. Oh,.

I see now. 2020, right? Man. That kind of goes along with Psalm 66, 8 through 12. Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard, who has kept our souls among the living, and has not let our feet slip.

For you, O God, have tested us. You have tried us as silver is tried. You brought us into the net. You laid crushing burdens on our back. You let men ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

That refiner's fire is hot. Yup. But man, that abundance is... Abundant. Abundant. It's more than you could ever ask for. Yup. Yup. Yup. Well, that goes back. Let's go to Job, because that's where we are in today's school.

I was just there a minute ago, in chapter five for a hot minute. Nope, I'm going too far, because I apparently forgot where Job is, because we're going chronologically, and that's not how the Bible goes.

All right. Job. What were we in Sunday?

11? I'm talking 11. We've plowed through a few chapters. I can't quite remember.

Well, then he had us reading one section, and it wasn't the right section. Oh. Shh. Don't tell the secrets. We give him a hard time, but he's wrong. He's awesome. If the reading is, he's good. John said, Mercedes, he makes everybody read, but he says, can you read chapter 10, and he'd call these verses out, and call these verses out, and we're reading it, and he goes, oh wait, those are the verses for the next chapter.

Oh, well, we already read that. It's fine.

But we got through it, and it needed to be read, so we read it. It's just how I looked at me the other day, and he goes, you can no longer fuss whenever I have you read on Sunday nights, because Vicki lets you read every week, and I go, yeah, you're right.

You're right. Well, I do have you read every week, but that's because I can't always see you. That's okay. I volunteer to do it.

It's different when you're all on hold. You did volunteer to read every week. I did. Okay, Job, what are we in? 13, and this is when Job has gone through his suffering, and he's lost all his kids. He's lost all his wealth, his herds, his livestock, everything, and his friends have come to comfort him.

They don't do a great job, but he is actually, this is one of his comebacks to one of his friends. They're not very good encouragers. They tried. Yeah. What's John say about the theology? Something about hard times creates bad theology or something?

Yeah, something like that. Word for word. He can comment on it later, I guess. Okay, Job 13, 13 through 16. Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. Why should I take my flesh and my teeth and put my life in my hands?

Though he slay me, I will hope in him, yet I will argue my ways to his face. If you go back and read the other chapters in Job before this, you will see that he says that his suffering comes from God, and while he's not wrong in that because God is allowing Satan to do that, he still says, though God slays me, I will hope in him, and that just, it continuously throughout everything that Job is going through, even though he has these friends that are constantly going, dude, you must have done something wrong to deserve what you're getting.

Just fess up. We're here to help you. Just come on. There has to be something there, and he even says, I will argue my ways to his face. He wants to go before God and argue his case because he sees nothing wrong with what he's doing, so he still counts himself as righteous, and he has no idea why it's happening to him basically, but he continues to have that faith.

I will hope in him through it, so that to me just, it gives me strength, and it gives me hope throughout all this that no matter how I see my circumstances and no matter how I worry and how I think things are going to turn out, there's 12 different paths that it could possibly happen, and you know what?

This literally says, though God is striking me down that he is putting all this illness and harm to my family and all this, I will keep my hope in him.

In 2 Corinthians 1 .10, it says he has delivered us from such a terrible death, and he will deliver us, and he will deliver us. We have put our hope in him that he will deliver us again, and then over in 2 Corinthians 6, if we're afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation.

If we're comforted, it is your comfort, which is great. Am I on the right one? You said 2 Corinthians 1 .10. Am I on the right one? After I'm reading it, it's... What was the first one? 1 Corinthians... 1 .10.

That was what I was, and then I jumped over in my eye, and you know... Your eyes jumped? Yeah. Read 10 and 11. Three. 10 and 11? Lord, we join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through prayers of many.

That's 11. Here we go. Three. 1 .3. 2 Corinthians 1 .3. Praise the God of... You said three. I went over there. Get it together. Okay, I'm here. It's me that needs to get it together tonight. It's okay.

We're there. Go. Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. He comforts us in all our afflictions so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction.

Through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so through Christ our comfort also overflows.

So our suffering isn't just for our sake, but it's so that we can help others after we've gone through it.

And I've been put in that position before. And it was a little tough having to rehash, but at the same time I went, I have a better understanding of why this went this way. Because now I'm able to help this person through it because I know what their thoughts, I had an idea of what their thought process was like because I remembered my own.

And then that also makes me, reminds me of the one, and I can't remember where it is, I'm sure Atlanta knows. Say the verse, I won't be able to remember where it is. It's talking about endurance. Second Timothy.

First Timothy.

And it's like a... Around the race? No, mm-mm. No. Around, is second, through endurance race. Have been talking about something?

Character, what is it? Is character and endurance, and maybe it is second Timothy because Mr. Richard was, talked about it when he did his... Second Timothy correction. Hold on. Yeah, Mr. Richard had talked about it when he did his Bible study.

Maybe, is it first Timothy? I bet it's first Timothy. Where's first Timothy? One of the Timothys. It's right before second Timothy. Is it though? Right before second Timothy, so that would be first Timothy.

Yeah. Okay.

First Timothy. We're close. And you feel it. But I think this has a lot to do with, like what you said, when you go through various trials, it's to help others. Just like, you know, Job didn't know why he was going through it.

Job had absolutely no idea. But here we are, you know, three, four thousand years later, reading it, and it, you know, is to help others. And he's probably up in heaven going, oh, okay, that was worth it.

You know? Yeah. And, I mean, that just goes to strengthening the body. That goes to the body of Christ. We are supposed to be, you know, the ones that reach out and help each other because if one person is struggling, it brings down the whole body.

Yep. Insert Josiah's MCO.

Because you know what I am in the body of Christ? Fingernail. No, I'm the Iliad. Oh, you and Shaw are close then. She's an Iliad. We're buddies. Yeah, y 'all help each other.

Don't protect the I. Aww. Look at y 'all. I don't know where I'm at. Or what I'm... Which one is it? That's kind of funny. What is it? It's, um, and I can see pieces of it in my head. Too bad you can't look at your phone.

I know. That's what I do. I just Google verses. I do, too.

And then I go, oh, wait, I can't. Why not? Because my phone's over there. You want mine? Um, yeah, it's... What is it?

It's... And I feel like we've had somebody on here that has brought this passage up.

Well, let me look through my notes while I look here.

Suffering Produces Endurance and Hope

Romans, wow, we were way off. Yeah, we were.

Five, four, three, six. We did have somebody do this, didn't we? Yeah, me and Timothy. Men. Vicki's got all the notes, and she's just over there letting us struggle. I didn't... Well, you just said...

I'm gonna watch this, and I'm gonna fail.

Okay. All right. Wait, what was it? Five, four, three, six. Someone had said three. We like Romans. Starting five.

One. Um... One, two, four, five. Three. And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions because we know that affliction produces endurance. Endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.

This hope will not disappoint us because God's love is poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Amen. Amen. That's the one that I was starting to think of.

Well, right before that, though, in Romans 4, it goes over how Abraham's faith... Abraham was justified by faith. And that... It actually mentions... I forgot the reference. I'm not even gonna pretend to know because apparently I don't know them.

Um... Where, um... Job's faith and his continual hope was accounted to him as righteousness as well. Um... But... I mean, that whole justification process, that sanctification, is...

It's hard. It's right here in 4 .13. Which one? 4 .13. About Job? Romans. No, it's still on Abraham. No, Abraham. Make him the father of the children. Yeah. He would inherit the world. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, you know, if you think about it, too, it's not just God delivering us through our trials in however way he sees fit, but it's also him delivering us from death and bringing us back to life. So that alone...

We were dead. I was dead as a door. Yeah. I mean, I was flat dead. I thought I was living. Oh, I was living it up. I thought... Now I'm living.

Do y 'all hear that? It's celebrating that I'm living. Yay! Mercedes said, mm. Do you need more coffee? Always need more coffee. What? Am I getting a coffee IV drip? Is that safe? Straight to the vein.

No. No. This is bypass of digestion. No, let's not do that. So we did. It's the caffeine. Jack can stay awake for days with no side effects. Oh, my gosh. I don't want to be running away.

I'll just leave Mercedes here. She'll run home. Mercedes doesn't run. If I run, you should run, too, because there's a problem. Right?

That's what I said at work one day. I said, if you see me running, you better run, because either somebody's firing shots or there's a fire. And usually if there's somebody firing shots, I'm ducking. Duck and cover.

Not even running. We're going to be like me and just sit on my back porch and go, yeah, I was a 22. But you're in your backyard. They're not shooting at you. Yeah, but those apartments are close. That's true.

And that's where we came from. That's true.

We're not going to kill you. Anywho. You just narrowed it down for them every time. Yeah, really.

You talk about somebody wanting to come and hunt you down, they're going to find you now. But are they going to? They would bring you back, Vicki. You know this. You know that. They would go, mm-mm. They would turn around and leave.

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Never mind. Oh, wow. Well, we have covered several scriptures. We've gone from Daniel to Isaiah, to Psalms to Job, to 2 Corinthians to Romans.

Let's spend some time with 2 Timothy on that. There was a little time.

All good stuff in 2 Timothy. There was a little bit of time there, but it's kind of small, so you can't spend a lot of time in there. Oh, you could. It's a great book. Yeah. What's it, Karina says? Just read the whole thing.

It'll do you good. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I have to say that I personally have experienced.

Playing myself, so. You know, and then sometimes everything looks big to you when you're facing it, but after the calm, after the storm has passed and everything's calm, you look back and you go,. I freaked out about that.

Like, I've done that.

Really? I got worked up for all that? I cried over a lamp breaking on Saturday. Totally understand. I was over, I was like, okay, I cried over a lamp. Take a step back and reassess things. Yeah. A lamp.

Yeah. Was it a gift? It was, my grandmother bought it for Elijah's nursery, and it was a little ceramic elephant lamp, and I love elephants. I think they're my favorite thing. I love elephants, too. And Elijah had it up in his room up until a few months ago, and finally I'm going, he was like, I don't really care for it anymore.

Outgrow it, whatever. I was like, finally, I get it! So I had it sitting on the mantel over there, and Zeke went and tried to turn it on, and the candle ended up falling on his head because he had pulled on it, and the candle came down, so I was comforting him.

He's going, I just wanted to turn it on! And then Aaron, trying to be the good big brother he is, went and tried to turn on the lamp, and it went, Uh-oh. Yeah. They were trying to help one another. They were.

It wasn't out of spite or anything, it was a complete accident. Right.

So, in the end...

Okay, Linkin Park went through my head, I'm sorry. Continue.

I think I'm just done. I think you're done.

Sorry, Dad, I really just got it. Linkin Park, really? I made an M &M reference yesterday during Wednesday night service. Justin left.

I didn't hear it. So, anyways, back to the study we're doing. Sorry. Focus. We've now discussed Linkin Park and M &M. During Wednesday night Bible study?

Hangs there. Oh, you dropped the world reference? No. Oh.

Trials, Endurance, and Hope in Romans

Someone was going, why does the world hang there? And someone went, gravity. And someone went, oh, there it goes. And I'm like, oh, there goes gravity.

Sorry. I hope everybody has enjoyed this Bible study tonight, and not the reference of M &M and Linkin Park. Apologies. But, hey, it's what Bible study's all about. Right? Full circle. You just bring it right back.

Around town. That's Spongebob. Okay, she can make Spongebob references. I wasn't even allowed to watch that as a kid.

My mom found it too annoying. I did have a grandchild at home, you know. And a husband that likes Spongebob, too. My mom just couldn't stand it. Well. I didn't like it, really. It's a good thing to know, though, that they don't get scorched in the flame.

Yeah.

And that God will come through. Yeah. In whatever way he sees fit.

He will be refined if you just let it go and let him deal with it instead of yourself.

It's a lot easier when you just don't fight and you just deal with it.

It's hard. And you have to continually, continually, daily make the choice to let it go. Alright, read this. Like Frozen.

That word again. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego trusted God to deliver them, but they were determined to be faithful regardless of the consequences. If God always rescued those who are true to him, faith would become unnecessary.

Oof. And the Christian religion would be a great insurance policy. And there would be lines of selfish people ready to sign up. We must be faithful or not. Our eternal place with him is worth any suffering we may have to endure.

What's wrong with the... Because I'm not...

I didn't turn my Wi-Fi off. Oops. There goes the prosperity gospel, huh? I think we just kind of... Nipped that one in the butt.

Well, anyways. Yeah, I was going to say it says that God delights in a broken spirit. Because that's when he can do it.

That's when he does his best work. When we are weakest, he is strongest. And that's not because we get stronger because we are Christians. It's because we let go and let him have it. And that's something that I had to learn because growing up you're just like, Oh, God's going to give me his strength, it's going to be fine.

It's kind of like, you know...

I'm about to preach. Preach! It's kind of like when, you know, I'm sure one of your kids, they get tired of walking and they want to be carried. You know? And so... John goes, nope! They give up and they go, just carry me.

That's why they're crying when they walk me to church, right? I don't want to walk! But I got to tell you, that's one thing that I have told so many people that in all my praying for the 16 years I was telling you about earlier, that's when I was broken.

I got shattered. I mean, it was like taking that glass up on the fifth floor and dropping it on asphalt. There's a glass up there. I'm sorry. There is. Oh, perfect. Dropping it on asphalt and just it shattering.

The Potter, the Clay, and Sanctification

That's why God being the potter and me being the clay, that is huge. Because I never, ever, ever dreamed that I'd be sitting in the position that I'm sitting in with Christ on my side. Same.

Ever. Same. Ever. Ever. I was not expecting last January when I walked into Witten for the first time immediately being in the hot seat.

I didn't want to be there. You were in the hot seat when you walked through the threshold of the doors. Yeah. And he said, here we go, guys. Here she comes! Been waiting for this one. He knew you were about to get good.

It all just kind of molded and folded and it's just, and it's still, the amazing thing is, and this is what you have to remember, is that it doesn't stop.

It doesn't stop. Sanctification is an ongoing process.

And that potter's wheel just keeps flowing.

You know what I like about pottery references? There is a Japanese art form, I guess you'd call it, where they take shattered plates or shattered bowls and they glue them back together. They glue them back, yeah, they put them back together, but they, where the pieces were broken, it's lined with gold.

And so it becomes this beautiful work of art where you still see the shattered pieces.

But you see the beauty within the shattered pieces. Yes! We know we gold. We got bling.

We got bling. We just said that. That came out of my mouth, didn't it? It did! Oh my gosh! All right, we're gonna call it a night now. Mercedes said we got bling.

Oh, wow. We're gonna have a gold chain next week. I didn't write that down. I had a silver tooth for a long time. I'm writing that down. Take the gum wrapper. Make a grill.

Middle school. All right, guys. I thank y 'all so much for coming tonight. I hope that you've enjoyed the evening as much as we have. Elena, thank you again for inviting us to your wonderfully organized home.

Complete with a nifty USB charger. Yeah, back in the middle of the counter. What'd you say? That you haven't been upstairs. Oh. Well, anyways.