 Hello, I'm Mike McKee, the Bishop of the North Texas Conference. And over the season of Advent, I want to be with you briefly each week during that time. I want to share a small devotional with you and I will focus on the lectionary readings for each Sunday in Advent. As a reminder to those of us who know and a reminder to those of us who may not know, the lectionary is a set of readings for each Sunday of the Christian year. And each Sunday of the Christian year has a reading from the Hebrew Scriptures, a reading from the Psalter, a reading from one of the Epistles, and a reading from the Gospels, with a few variations I must admit. But I will be using readings from each Sunday in Advent that you may begin to think, why are we talking or thinking about this particular passage of Scripture during the Advent when it's about the birth of the Christ child. But the birth of the Christ child comes in an unusual time, an unusual place, unknown to people. And I'm going to be using readings that may be familiar to you, but will be somewhat begin to cause you to think, why are we doing this? There's no doubt that 2020 has been an unusual year. No one wants to repeat 2020 on any number of fronts. And I think given the kind of time that we've been living through that it may be good to look at the coming birth of the Christ child through a set of different eyes by using different readings than we were accustomed to hearing on the first, second, third, or fourth Sunday in Advent. So I hope you'll join me for these devotionals. They'll be issued in any number of ways on our social media platforms, they'll come out in emails, but I look forward to sharing with the people of North Texas Conference an understanding, a fresh understanding of what it means to prepare for the birth of the Christ child. God bless you, and I look forward to being with you.