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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: The holidays are here and everything's changing with this season,

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Speaker 2: right see music changing goodness. Many radio stations started playing

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Speaker 2: Christmas music the moment Thanksgiving stopped, so music started to change.

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Speaker 2: Decorations changing coming out, people putting up lights, doing all

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Speaker 2: kinds of things on their home. The stores, whether it

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Speaker 2: be a grocery store, department store, decorations are changing, and

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Speaker 2: even people's attitudes tend to change. Have you noticed that

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Speaker 2: interactions with each other tend to be a little more pleasant,

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Speaker 2: little more seasonally happy? And this is what seems to

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Speaker 2: happen around this time of the year every single year.

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Speaker 2: And just like that famous Christmas song, and we all

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Speaker 2: know it, there's beauty in these small moments of comfort

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Speaker 2: and joy. But what is the true meaning of joy

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Speaker 2: and where does it come from? It seems that because

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Speaker 2: it tends to be a part of this season, that

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Speaker 2: the assumption is that comfort and joy or joy itself

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Speaker 2: lies in material things, because this time is associated with

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Speaker 2: gift giving and those types of things, that it seems

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Speaker 2: that the overall attitude is that joy is somehow attached

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Speaker 2: to that. Does it really come from material gifts. That

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Speaker 2: would be sad if that was the case. It must

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Speaker 2: come from the things of God.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 2: To the believer, joy is much more than a feeling.

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Speaker 2: You can't just wrap it up in a box, put

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Speaker 2: a bow on it, and hand it to someone. It's

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Speaker 2: not just wow, I'm in a really good mood today,

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Speaker 2: or I really feel happy today. Joy is much bigger

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Speaker 2: than that. Joy is much grander and much more pure

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Speaker 2: than something that can be stuffed in a box or

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Speaker 2: a bag or handed out to everyone. Joy has to

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Speaker 2: be bigger than that. It has to be It has

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Speaker 2: to be from God for it to be real. People

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Speaker 2: confuse joy with happiness, which is really not a good thing.

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Speaker 2: We've said this over and over on the show, because

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Speaker 2: really happiness is kind of this this flash feeling of

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Speaker 2: joy due to a happening, something that happened. So you

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Speaker 2: have this happiness. Somebody gives you a gift, somebody says

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Speaker 2: something nice, whatever it is, you have this happiness because

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Speaker 2: of that happening. But joy is altogether different. It's pure,

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Speaker 2: and it's in an intense concentration. It doesn't have the

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Speaker 2: ebb and flow of happiness. It certainly can't be given

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Speaker 2: to you because of a pill you're taking, or because

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Speaker 2: of a gift you've been given, or because of a

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Speaker 2: movie you just saw. If anything, these things that you

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Speaker 2: call happiness are just a little bit of that curtain

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Speaker 2: that keeps you from that joy, the joy that's there

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Speaker 2: all the time. It's just a little bit of that

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Speaker 2: curtain being pulled back and in just glimpsing that joy

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Speaker 2: that's always with you.

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Speaker 1: Believe it or not.

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Speaker 2: They say that if you're looking and looking and looking

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Speaker 2: for something and can't find it, chances are you already

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Speaker 2: have it. And so so many people search for joy

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Speaker 2: thinking they're going to lift up a rock, or they're

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Speaker 2: going to open a door or come around a corner,

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Speaker 2: and there joy is seeking that going, well, where is

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Speaker 2: this joy? I keep hearing about? But it's with you always.

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Speaker 2: It comes from God, and it can only be realized,

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Speaker 2: It only be seen and appreciated and really understood when

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Speaker 2: you're in God's presence here on earth, not the same

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Speaker 2: way you'll be in God's presence in heaven, but in

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Speaker 2: a state of having a relationship with God, in a

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Speaker 2: state of a prayer and connection with God, that's when

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Speaker 2: you'll know joy, real joy, that concentrated joy, and not

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Speaker 2: just the glance or the glimpse or or the little

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Speaker 2: peace or the taste of joy that you get during happenings,

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Speaker 2: things that just make you happy. And during this time

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Speaker 2: of year, it seems that there's this shift, this shift

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Speaker 2: where even the non believer starts experience experiencing just a

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Speaker 2: little bit of what the Christian does all year round.

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Speaker 2: Because joy is not attached to a day, whether it's

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Speaker 2: the celebration of my birth or not. Joy is always there.

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Speaker 2: Joy is inside. It lasts and lasts and lasts. It's

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Speaker 2: not moved or changed by circumstance, and it's incredibly powerful.

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Speaker 2: It's what keeps you stable in times of great chaos

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Speaker 2: and turmoil. Having joy doesn't mean you understand everything going

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Speaker 2: or funfilled. That's a misrepresentation of joy. Joy comes from

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Speaker 2: understanding your life is in God's hand, and that's where

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Speaker 2: your comfort lies as well. The song comfort and joy.

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Speaker 2: There is a wonderful marriage there, but it's not because

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Speaker 2: of circumstances. It's not because well, things seem to be

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Speaker 2: going my way, and therefore I have joy and I

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Speaker 2: have comfort. The comfort is knowing that God has you.

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Speaker 2: You've heard it before, right, It's not what the future holds,

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Speaker 2: but it's who holds your future that matters. Well, if

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Speaker 2: God is holding your future, if God is holding you,

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Speaker 2: your heart, your faith, then you won't be swayed and

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Speaker 2: caught up in the things of every day. Doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: that you won't get down from time to time, but

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Speaker 2: being up or down due to circumstances is normal.

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Speaker 1: But joy can.

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Speaker 2: Exist simultaneously even when you're not in the best of moods,

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Speaker 2: because it's not just that feeling. The joy is there

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Speaker 2: in the simplicity of life itself, enjoying mere existence. This

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Speaker 2: is the day that the Lord has made. Let us

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Speaker 2: rejoice in it, rejoice feeling that joy just in the

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Speaker 2: simplicity of this is a day that God made. And

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Speaker 2: once you find that, once you understand that it's not

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Speaker 2: something you're searching for, it's not something you're looking for,

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Speaker 2: you look to know God. And with knowing God comes

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Speaker 2: that joy comes, that that altogether concentrate of the things

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Speaker 2: of God, not some swaying, ever changing, always in this

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Speaker 2: state of flux kind of feeling thing. The world wants this,

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Speaker 2: wants you to think that that's what joy is. That

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Speaker 2: comfort is in knowing what's going to happen to you.

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Speaker 2: Comfort is knowing every step that's ahead of you. That's

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Speaker 2: not comfort, that's not joy. The real comfort and joy

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Speaker 2: that's talked about in scripture deals with being comforted knowing

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Speaker 2: that God is with you, that God has a plan

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Speaker 2: for your life, that you have a purpose, and that

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Speaker 2: God loves you. Therein lies the comfort. Therein lies the joy.

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Speaker 2: God is that source of joy. And during the holidays,

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Speaker 2: as you see people going throughout shopping and buying gifts

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Speaker 2: and everything that comes with the holidays, the automatic place

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Speaker 2: you go is that that's what brings joy. And I

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Speaker 2: want to reset that for you. I want you to

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Speaker 2: see it differently, that, yes, you may be in a

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Speaker 2: circumstance where you might not be with family this year,

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Speaker 2: you may be in a circumstance where you've lost some

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Speaker 2: family and whatever it might be, that if you have

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Speaker 2: God with you throughout any circumstance, including sometimes the sadness

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Speaker 2: that comes with the holidays as well, that that is

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Speaker 2: where your joy lies. That is where your comfort lies.

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Speaker 2: The holidays are here, of course, And with Christmas, it's

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Speaker 2: every movie, it's a cliche. Every movie that you see

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Speaker 2: dealing with Christmas always surrounds about the magic spirit of Christmas,

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Speaker 2: the attitude of people, and as everything goes and changes

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Speaker 2: during this time of the year, this season, you start

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Speaker 2: thinking about things like joy. You hear songs that talk

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Speaker 2: something altogether different. It's not just something because someone's giving

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Speaker 2: you a gift, just some wonderful feeling. Comfort and joy

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Speaker 2: is very real, It's very constant, and it's pure. When

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Speaker 2: you're a person of faith, it's inside. It lasts forever

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Speaker 2: and good and bad circumstances, and that keeps you stable

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Speaker 2: and a float during times of chaos. So don't get

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Speaker 2: caught up thinking that joy is this thing that just

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Speaker 2: comes once a year, or comes when gifts are present

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Speaker 2: or people tend to just be in a better mood.

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Speaker 2: That's not what it is, because things will fade away.

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Speaker 2: True joy must be sturdier, much more solid than material

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Speaker 2: things or ever changing situations that come and go. Joy

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Speaker 2: is not attached to you getting something, and it's not

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Speaker 2: attached to this world at all. God is the only

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Speaker 2: true source of joy and the comfort that comes with it.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 2: Tewod Corinthians one three said, blessed be the God and

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Speaker 2: Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies

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Speaker 2: and of God and of all comfort. God brings the

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Speaker 2: fullness of joy, not part not little pieces, a little

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Speaker 2: bit here, a little bit there. Psalm sixteen eleven says,

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Speaker 2: in Thy presence is fullness of joy. The fullness of

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Speaker 2: joy being in the presence of the Maker.

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Speaker 1: That is joy.

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Speaker 2: That is where I want you to be, not cut

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Speaker 2: up in gifts or this or that, but being in

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Speaker 2: the relationship with God. Your joy filled by God's purpose.

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Speaker 2: That's joy, not just by what life brings you. It's

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Speaker 2: okay to enjoy things. It's okay to enjoy life. It's

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Speaker 2: okay to be happy the things that you have in life.

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Speaker 2: But the fullness of life and true joy can only

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Speaker 2: come from God. Rebecca, Welcome to the Jesus Christia.

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Speaker 1: Jesus Hi, Rebecca, H.

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Speaker 3: I know you love me, and I truly love myself,

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Speaker 3: But how can I feel joy, comfort and joy during

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Speaker 3: the holiday season when everything around around me reminds me

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Speaker 3: that I'm single, I'm alone and I feel like I

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Speaker 3: have no one to love me and maybe no one

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Speaker 3: will ever love me.

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Speaker 2: Well, that doesn't really seem plausible. There's no evidence that

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Speaker 2: doesn't happen. People don't run around looking for something to

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Speaker 2: think that that then you'll be fulfilled in that you

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Speaker 2: won't go looking for another mate, right, true? Okay, so

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Speaker 2: the hope is that there will be a hole there

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Speaker 2: of some kind and that you'll be fulfilled. Yet you

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Speaker 2: tell me you love me, done, check, I love you too. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And then you say that you love yourself. Yes, but

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Speaker 2: yet you feel the need to look for someone else

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Speaker 2: in a way that is looking for fulfillment. And I

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Speaker 2: will tell you this, when you truly love attracts love.

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Speaker 1: It's just the way it.

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Speaker 2: Works when and I don't mean in that like the

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Speaker 2: secret and the law of attraction everything. I mean that

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Speaker 2: it is it is bound together. It's materially bound together.

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Speaker 2: And when you are comfortable with who you are, and

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Speaker 2: you are in a nice, healthy, wonderful place is when

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Speaker 2: you will attract those that are in the same place.

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Speaker 2: You don't need anybody, you know, there's not a need

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Speaker 2: in that sense. There is a want and a desire

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Speaker 2: and you're built for it. But if you have those desires,

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Speaker 2: there's no reason for you to feel that you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: have it. Now, what is in your mind? In total honesty,

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Speaker 2: because if you're not honest, it's not going to do

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Speaker 2: us any good. But Rebecca, in total honesty, what do

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Speaker 2: you think is the reason that you haven't found that

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Speaker 2: right person? Because I'm assuming you've dated before, you've met people, Yes, okay,

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Speaker 2: so what is what is the.

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Speaker 1: What's the reason?

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Speaker 3: I've been in relationships and I've been engaged a couple

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Speaker 3: of times in the past, you know, six years, and

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Speaker 3: I was married before, and you know, I really don't know.

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Speaker 3: I feel that the men that I am initially attracted to,

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Speaker 3: and they're very attracted to me, I feel that it's

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Speaker 3: just it's purely physical. There's like there's nothing there, there's

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Speaker 3: no substance there.

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Speaker 2: Well, everything's going to be physical at first, I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's how you see people. That's the very first thing

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Speaker 2: you're going to connect with with somebody is going to

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Speaker 3: And I agree, I enjoy my own company. I mean

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