I wanted to share something that hit me hard this past week. Part of the reason I had to cancel our Saturday call was because I got called out to an emergency service job, and what I walked into has been sitting heavy with me ever since. A family had just gone through a house fire. Not only the fire itself, but the water damage, the chaos, the smell of smoke that hits you in the chest, and the look on their faces as they walked through what was left. Every personal belonging gone. Kids’ keepsakes soaked, burned, destroyed. Their whole world changed in a night. Standing there with them, watching them try to process all of it, it hit me how quickly life can flip. How fast the things we take for granted can disappear. And honestly, it rocked me. It stuck with me all weekend. Still have that lump in my throat as I write this. But it also pushed me into gratitude in a way I wasn’t expecting. Gratitude for my home. Gratitude for my wife and daughter. Gratitude for the quiet, simple moments we blow past every day. Gratitude for the people in my life who I get to love and who love me back. Even gratitude for the problems I do have, because they’re problems I get to work through, not ones that take everything away from me in a second. I don’t say this to be dramatic. I say it because sometimes life throws something in front of us that forces us to slow down and see what’s actually in front of us. And that’s what this was for me. So today, I want to offer you the same reminder I needed: Take a second and sit with what you still have. Your people. Your health. Your chance to wake up today and choose who you’re becoming. Your ability to start again, no matter where you’re at right now. It’s easy to get caught up in the stress, the noise, the grind. But gratitude doesn’t make the hard stuff disappear, it just anchors you so the hard stuff doesn’t take you under. Appreciate you guys.