HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AUDRA! Today we’re celebrating the 25th birthday of the greatest cover artist of all time, Audra Miller, and also the 10th anniversary of her band First to Eleven.

Here’s her “birthday cover” from this week: “FLORIDA!!!” by Taylor Swift and Florence the Machine. It features one of her besties Alexis Federici, who is an even more talented singer than I realized.

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Devotion for today:

2 Timothy 2:1-13 – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%202%3A1-13&version=NASB’

This section to me truly stands out, as St. Paul writes to Timothy before Paul’s own execution by the Romans:

3 Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 

4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him. 

5 And if someone likewise competes as an athlete, he is not [c]crowned as victor unless he competes according to the rules. 

6 The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops. 

7 Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

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Gah Billie is so gorgeous!

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