Kendra Dahlstrom

Well, and a quick story on that.

So last year I, we went river rafting and

I ended up getting bacterial pneumonia and it turned into sepsis.

And so I ended up in septic shock with respiratory failure and the beginning of liver failure.

And I'm very healthy and almost died.

And I had some really interesting conversations with God while I was in the hospital.

And one of them was actually, I believe I was having a near-death experience with a life review.

And I sort of saw all these things.

I felt that I was like, I just remember myself talking in my sleep and keep waking up and I was just sweating and

Just please forgive me for this and this and all these things I had done.

And what was so interesting was that the passage, Luke 12, 25, came forward for me.

And he said, you know what your biggest sin is?

And I was like, no.

And he goes, worry.

He said, did you not live an hour more of your life because of all your worry?

Oh, my gosh.

Like if I counted all the hours I worried, fear, worry, concern, however you want to frame it.

That was way more, I guess, than all these, you know, like lying to my teacher in second grade or whatever, all these things I was thinking about.

And I thought, wow.

And so the reason I shared that with you is I came out of that experience a different person and realized because of my experience that how grateful I am for each breath.