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And then what I do is I'll read it, and if I'm journaling, I'll just write down maybe in that whole chapter, maybe there was one verse that really spoke to me today. And so in that that journal, I'm gonna write down what that one verse is, and that'll be my scripture that I move to these next steps with. So we go from scripture to observation. Observation is what does the text actually say? And that begins with carefully reading the passage and rereading it. It may mean reading a little bit around it. Even if you had a whole chapter, you may wanna read the chapter before, the chapter after. If there's a reference to the Old Testament, you might wanna flip back to where that actually took place so you can read that in context. Like, when in Matthew four, when when Jesus says, it is written, where is that written? It's actually in Deuteronomy. And so I would go back to Deuteronomy. I wanna read it in context, and so I highly recommend doing that.