Boy, she's cute!

And we just. We became friends. We built a trust relationship because she had to trust me to toss her around, and I had to trust her to, you know, to be where I threw her and things like that. And so. So we built that relationship. Now, little did I know that she had called her mom and said, mom, I've met the man I'm going to marry. I was still a month later at boy, she's.

But she's a smartie. You know, she. She's a smartie.

She's something else. Yeah.

Yeah.

So. But here's the other. The other crazy thing is she actually, growing up, had known she was going to marry a pastor, and I didn't even at that point know I was going to be a pastor. And she's got a gift of discernment. And so I think she saw something in me that I didn't even recognize in myself. And part of why I'm so thankful to God for her is that she's believed in me and the work of God in me from before I did.

Amen.

And she inspires me.

Amen.

Yeah. She inspires me to be better than I could have been on my own. And so I'm grateful for her. She also knows how to ask a good question that pierces right to my heart and just gets to the core of the issue. And she does it just so sweetly and gently.

And I'm like, yeah, yeah. That may dovetail in with that discernment. Yeah. And you've mentioned several times this season in talking about Jen, her giftedness with thoughtful questioning. Right. You've said often that she knows how to use questions not as weapons, but as tools. Right?

Yep.

And. And yeah, and so that's one of the things that I. I reckon very quickly when I think of Jen, I think of your estimation of her. You. You hold her always in very high esteem. But some of these qualities that you've mentioned repeatedly that have been very valuable to you, not only as a man, but as a husband and a father and, you know, in relational connectedness. And I think about that, and I think on myself and my ability to partner my husband well, in that same way,