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Speaker 1: a couple of things I want to show you. At

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Speaker 1: the very beginning of what I want to say, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna find the first time you said God,

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Speaker 1: and well you said at the very beginning, this is

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Speaker 1: a baby I'd prayed for. Okay, So there's that, And

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Speaker 1: then batten down into the fourth paragraph, you say, during

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Speaker 1: my pregnancy, we were constantly anxious about having a healthy baby.

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Speaker 1: We'd pray over our baby and praise God. We would

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Speaker 1: you and your husband would pray over our baby and

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Speaker 1: praise God. Everything we have prayed for God has provided. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I just want to point that out. During my pregnancy,

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Speaker 1: we were constantly anxious about having a healthy baby. We

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Speaker 1: prayed over this baby and praise God. Everything we prayed for,

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Speaker 1: God has provided. I just want to I said that

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Speaker 1: twice because I want to see what I want you

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Speaker 1: to see. What you typed, you were anxious, you prayed,

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Speaker 1: He provided. Now. To be honest, it doesn't always work.

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Speaker 1: He always provides, and his plan always happens, but we

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Speaker 1: don't always see it happened in the way that we

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Speaker 1: want it to happen. In this case, it did what

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Speaker 1: you wanted and what you prayed for was aligned with

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Speaker 1: his will, and it happened and he provided everything that

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Speaker 1: you asked for. Sit with that for a while, and

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Speaker 1: I hope you're listening. But in your situation, I want

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Speaker 1: you to sit with that idea, and then I want

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Speaker 1: to I want you to see what I want to.

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Speaker 1: I want to show you what you're doing and what

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Speaker 1: we all do. We we're anxious, we pray, he provides,

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Speaker 1: we get anxious about something else. That's what we do.

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Speaker 1: Is crazy, but that's what we do. And he goes,

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Speaker 1: you of little faith. That's literally what he's saying in

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Speaker 1: this through his word. And so here we are, and

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Speaker 1: what you're what you're anxious about, and what your your

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Speaker 1: your dilemma is with your husband is totally valid, and

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Speaker 1: your husband is totally valid for thinking what he's thinking

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Speaker 1: because he went through this with a wife that was

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Speaker 1: overly anxious about having a healthy baby, a wife that said, oh,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to do this anymore. I'm in pain,

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Speaker 1: I'm nervous, i'm anxious. Oh please God, and you got

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Speaker 1: this healthy baby. And he said no more. And he

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Speaker 1: said fine, yeah, yes, I get it. This is you've

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Speaker 1: been a stress ball. And so yeah, I hear you.

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Speaker 1: And then a few years go by and you go, hey, babe,

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Speaker 1: I think I want to have another baby, and he goes,

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Speaker 1: uh uh, he says no. Right, So that's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I don't blame him for saying no, because this is

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Speaker 1: what he's left with. And I also don't blame you

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Speaker 1: for now God's provided, and now you're anxious again about

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Speaker 1: a new thing. I also don't blame you that you

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Speaker 1: want another child. That this is all natural. These are

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Speaker 1: all these things, every bit of it is natural, and

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Speaker 1: it makes total sense. And I don't read this and

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Speaker 1: go this is a messed up family. I don't think that.

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Speaker 1: I go, yeah, this sounds like a pattern. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like a very normal pattern. So let's just acknowledge first

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Speaker 1: of all your feelings and everything you're going through, and

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Speaker 1: this pattern it's normal. And your husband and his resistance

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Speaker 1: to it, there is a level where you're just gonna go, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna push you beyond what you want.

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Speaker 1: I desire another baby, and I can understand why you

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Speaker 1: say no because of the craziness of the first pregnancy.

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Speaker 1: I get it. At least acknowledge him that, at least

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Speaker 1: give him that instead of if it's getting to the

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Speaker 1: point where you're actually breaking him down, that's what you said,

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Speaker 1: you said, he said, fine, if you want one more,

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Speaker 1: we'll have one more, which obviously doesn't mean he wants another.

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Speaker 1: But you've broken him down. If that's the case, what

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Speaker 1: that breaking down tells me is you've been nagging him. Hey,

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Speaker 1: if you're thought any more about this baby. Is it

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Speaker 1: always about what you want? Is it what you want

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Speaker 1: or what I want? Because I want another baby? Is there?

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Speaker 1: And is it so much to ask? We have one

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Speaker 1: and he's health and it's beautiful. Can we have another one?

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Speaker 1: That's all I'm asking? And he goes, fine, Fine, if

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Speaker 1: that's what you want, we'll do it. I could totally

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Speaker 1: see that plan out. What's what's happening. We can't control him,

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Speaker 1: we can't control his reactions, but what we can do

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Speaker 1: is change the way we approach it. So instead it's

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Speaker 1: like this. It's like, hey, baby, no, you don't want

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Speaker 1: another baby, And it's crazy to me that I actually do.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna push it. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: tell you and I want to get it out there

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Speaker 1: and maybe if you change your mind, will you please

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Speaker 1: come to me. But I feel I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: in our future to have another one. But I totally

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Speaker 1: understand that you don't, You know, like, let's do that

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Speaker 1: instead of pushing him to break him down. Let me

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Speaker 1: go back to God's province, providence. Let me go back

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Speaker 1: to God's purpose, in God's will. This is gonna blow

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Speaker 1: your mind if you really think about it. Listen, anonymous.

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Speaker 1: Think about this. Think step away from this podcast, and

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Speaker 1: I want you to think, after this is over, really

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Speaker 1: think about what I'm about to say, and if you

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Speaker 1: really meditate on this, it will blow your mind. Whether

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Speaker 1: or not you have a baby another baby is already determined.

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Speaker 1: If you have another baby, it is already written. If

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Speaker 1: you don't have any more babies in your life, it

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Speaker 1: is already determined. It's crazy, right, And what am I

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Speaker 1: just a puppet on a string here? Well? No, No,

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Speaker 1: You're making choices, you're making decisions, you're praying through it,

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Speaker 1: you're acting within your will, the constraints of your personal

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Speaker 1: will and everything you got going on and everything you're

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Speaker 1: dealing with. But the product of that is already determined.

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Speaker 1: The reason I tell you that is that should if

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Speaker 1: you meditate on that and you go wow, it's already determined,

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Speaker 1: a baby or not, It's already written, regardless of what

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Speaker 1: I'm worry about. What. The reason I tell you that

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Speaker 1: is because you could sit back on that and just

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Speaker 1: go wow. I could just rest in that, Hey, God,

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Speaker 1: did this is? This? Is you? You're God and I'm not.

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Speaker 1: You know my heart, God, you know I want another baby.

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Speaker 1: You also know my husband doesn't. But God, you could

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Speaker 1: soften his heart, or you could give me better understanding.

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Speaker 1: Either way, this child's I'm handing it to you. It's

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Speaker 1: all you, God, whether it comes or not, it's all you.

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Speaker 1: That is, that is a mature prayer. And that is

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Speaker 1: that is where extreme rest comes from. That is, maybe

543
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Speaker 1: that's extreme. How could you possibly extremely rest? That is

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Speaker 1: where ultimate rest is right. Ultimate rest comes from from

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Speaker 1: ultimate faith, which none of us have. But the closer

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Speaker 1: you get to that, the closer, the stronger your faith gets.

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Speaker 1: The stronger you believe that God has already determined this

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Speaker 1: for you. The stronger you believe that, the easier you rest.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy, but it's true, and that's what the Bible says.

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Speaker 1: And I love that we already have this example in

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Speaker 1: your life when it happened before. You were anxious, you

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Speaker 1: were worried, you prayed, He provided, Trust him. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the email. Let's dive into another one here. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to know. I have no idea what I'm getting into,

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Speaker 1: but this question subject line says life question. The email says, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Gran should like to remain a non us, but I

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Speaker 1: have a question for you. I am no, no, I've

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Speaker 1: read this one before, I've read that one. That one

559
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Speaker 1: came in twice. Don't send him twice, y'all. Don't send

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Speaker 1: them twice. That's that. Then it leads me to this

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Let me go into this one. Hey Granger.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I'm a big fan. My wife and

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Speaker 1: I went to your concert at the Lake of the

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Speaker 1: Ozarks and I had a blast. My question is this

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Speaker 1: last summer there was a local family whose youngest boy

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Speaker 1: drowned in the lake over Fourth of July weekend. We

567
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Speaker 1: have bought your book, and I'm curious when do you

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Speaker 1: think it's a good time to give them this book

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Speaker 1: to anonymously thanks for what you do with your podcast

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Speaker 1: right now or give it to him right now. You

571
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: sent this early October, and it is that happened for

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Speaker 1: the July. Yeah, right now, give it to them right now.

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Speaker 1: Next question, subdic Cline says, friends, Hey Grangeer, my name

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Speaker 1: is Toner from Tulsa, and I've been helping in my

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Speaker 1: church youth group for almost a year and I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to see a change in me that's causing me not

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Speaker 1: to be around my non church friends anymore. And one

578
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Speaker 1: of them told me I deserted them for church? Should

579
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Speaker 1: I feel bad that I may? That I may have happened?

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Speaker 1: How do I'm going to try to read what you

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Speaker 1: wrote here? They told me I deserted them for church.

582
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Speaker 1: Should I feel bad? I'll just whatever you said for that.

583
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Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure, but you said, how do I

584
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Speaker 1: balance hanging out with church friends and my non church friends.

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Speaker 1: I have recently quit drinking every weekend. I'm a non

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Speaker 1: church friend. My non church friends are mad because I

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Speaker 1: won't drink with them anymore. What should I do? Hey, Toner,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the email, brother, and what your saying is

589
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: absolutely normal. This is absolutely normal. Jesus read through the

590
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Speaker 1: gospels and watch what Jesus says very carefully. He's gonna say,

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Speaker 1: I did not come to bring peace. I came to

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Speaker 1: bring a sword. He's gonna Jesus is gonna pit father

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Speaker 1: against son, mother against daughter, friend against friend. Your new brothers,

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Speaker 1: your new friends are going to be friends you find

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Speaker 1: in Christ, and then you're going to as an example,

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Speaker 1: then go back and be able to give your non

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Speaker 1: church friends as a bit of your hope that they

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Speaker 1: could trust and what you trust in that they don't

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Speaker 1: need to be doing what they're doing in a non

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00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: judgmental way. It's super easy. You're just like a man.

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Speaker 1: I I'm sorry I don't go out with you guys drinking.

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Speaker 1: But I just found something better. That's all it is.

603
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: I just found something better, like what possibly could be better.

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00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: It's like, man, you should come with me. You should.

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Speaker 1: You should come and check it out. She should come

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Speaker 1: to church with me and maybe you'll see. But I

607
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 1: just bounce on them better. And I can't go drinking anymore.

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Speaker 1: Why can't you go drinking? Man? Because to be honest

609
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Speaker 1: with you, when I go drinking, it's it's nothing on

610
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 1: you guys. It's not it's not judgment in any way

611
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Speaker 1: on you guys. But when I go drinking, I feel convicted.

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Speaker 1: I feel I feel like I'm messing myself up a

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Speaker 1: little bit. What are you talking about, ton Er? Come on, man,

614
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: come drinking with us, dude. That I love you guys, seriously,

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Speaker 1: I do, and I appreciate the invite and I'll go

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Speaker 1: with you guys, but but I can't drink because it

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00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: just it's not who I am anymore. That that old

618
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: me died, that version of me is gone. Ah. So

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Speaker 1: at that point if they're like, well, get out it.

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Speaker 1: We don't, we don't want anything to do with you.

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Speaker 1: Is that something that you would all a friend? You

622
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: found something, you found a treasure and you love it

623
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Speaker 1: and it's a new joy of your life. It's given

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Speaker 1: you purpose and joy and identity. And these guys say,

625
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: get lost, man, or come with us? Or do you

626
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: still call them friends? So yeah, that's the new world

627
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: you're living in and it's totally normal. And here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: here's the cool thing, Toner. I bet you a couple

629
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Speaker 1: of these guys, maybe one is gonna end up coming

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Speaker 1: with you. That's a beautiful thing about it. But there

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Speaker 1: is no more for you. There is no more. How

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Speaker 1: do I balance church friends and non church friends. It

633
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what I tell you on this podcast, because

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Speaker 1: you've been redeemed by the blood, So the Holy Spirit's

635
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Speaker 1: going to act through you and witness to this as

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Speaker 1: you live it out, so you don't even have to

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Speaker 1: worry about me. And what I say, what's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: is the more you go out with these the non

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Speaker 1: church guys, the more you're just going to be miserable.

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Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, I really don't want to be here.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like I fit in. I just don't

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Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to be doing this. That's

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna feel. And I don't have to. I

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00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 1: don't have to push you along. You're gonna end up

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Speaker 1: going back with the friends that go Hey, Toner, we

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00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 1: get you, we get you, man, we understand come back.

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Speaker 1: That's the deal. Let's grab another one. Hey, thank you

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Speaker 1: guys for bearing with me on this podcast. This has

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Speaker 1: been interesting, and I think for those of y'all that

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Speaker 1: have listened to a bunch of these when I do

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Speaker 1: them at night and just weird things happen in my

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Speaker 1: brain and I don't have a guess. It's just me

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Speaker 1: and you. So so yeah, what I'm gonna do. I'm

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Speaker 1: actually scrolling down. I'm gonna grab something kind of old

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Speaker 1: right here. It says broad, open ended heaven question. Hey Granger,

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Speaker 1: how do you picture heaven? I would love to hear

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Speaker 1: the details that you imagine. My name is Julie and

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Speaker 1: I'm from Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Thank you for what you're

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Speaker 1: doing this podcast. My husband and I love hearing these

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Speaker 1: all the best. Julie, Hey, Julie, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for the encouragement, and yeah, that's a great I love

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Speaker 1: this question. You know what's crazy. I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: this today, not the question, but I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: this in now analogy. Today. When I tell you the

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Speaker 1: truth about heaven, it's going to sound boring compared to

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Speaker 1: other ideas of heaven that you've heard. But the reason

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Speaker 1: it sounds boring is to anyone that's listening is because

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Speaker 1: you're your underestimation of what I'm about to say is

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Speaker 1: will blow your mind because if you really got to

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Speaker 1: grasp on what I'm trying to say, and me too, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I can't either. I can't. My brain is way too small.

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Speaker 1: But if I really got a grasp on what I

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Speaker 1: was trying to say, it would be the most opposite

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Speaker 1: of boring that anything I could possibly say. But because

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Speaker 1: I can't say it well, and because my brain is tiny,

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Speaker 1: when I do say, it's gonna sound boring to you.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it, all right, let's get into it. I

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Speaker 1: could tell you how do I picture heaven. I could say, Man,

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Speaker 1: I hope it has green grass, and I hope it

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Speaker 1: has a beautiful lake and largemouth bass and good lures

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Speaker 1: and good fishing gear, and I hope it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: fire ants because I can't stand fire ants. And I

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Speaker 1: hope the sky's blue with puffy clouds, and I hope

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Speaker 1: the temperatures around seventy degrees, and I hope that those

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Speaker 1: fish bite every single cast. I hope I get an

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Speaker 1: eight pounder here, a ten pounder here, And I hope

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Speaker 1: River is with me. And River is standing next to me, laughing,

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Speaker 1: and we're fishing together, and maybe we're both about the

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Speaker 1: same age, and we're saying, isn't Heaven fun? And Rivers like, yeah, Dad,

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Speaker 1: Heaven's so fun. And we're just catching bass, and then

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Speaker 1: my dad walks up and he says, hey, guys, how's

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Speaker 1: the fishing. And we're like, Dad, it's Heaven fish shirt.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're always biting here and it's crazy. I

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Speaker 1: can tell you that. And then we would end the

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Speaker 1: podcast and everyone would be like, Oh, that's real sweet,

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you, I think that's that thing

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Speaker 1: that's really far off. Okay, I've prepped a lot, So

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Speaker 1: here we go. When we get to Heaven, we are

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Speaker 1: going to be in the presence of our creator, and

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Speaker 1: we are going to be so lost in the dazzling

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Speaker 1: magnificence of him that it's going everything else will pale

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Speaker 1: in comparison. And I think there will be everything else.

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Speaker 1: I think there will be a lot of unbelievably incredible

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Speaker 1: things in heaven. But I think if we miss the

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Speaker 1: fact that we're going to be in the presence of

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Speaker 1: the maker of everything you've ever loved, imagine that for

707
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Speaker 1: one second, you're going to be in the presence, the unveiled,

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Speaker 1: unfiltered presence of the creator of everything you've ever thought

709
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Speaker 1: was beautiful, are worthy? Are lovely, or artistic or musically inclined,

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00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: Everything you've ever thought that every human being has ever

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Speaker 1: thought about planet Earth, that ever thought it was worthy

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Speaker 1: or beautiful or integrity, are healthy or beautiful sounding, or

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Speaker 1: beautiful smelling or beautiful every sense beautiful, the most incredible

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Speaker 1: thing you could possibly imagine in your life that you've

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Speaker 1: ever seen or enjoyed, or tasted, or listened to or

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00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: are sung along with everything, You're going to be in

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Speaker 1: the presence, unfiltered, unveiled of the one that created all

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Speaker 1: of that. We can't possibly know how unbelievably incredible this

719
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Speaker 1: experience will be. And that is Heaven, and that's what

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Speaker 1: the Bible is going to describe it as we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be the presence of our Lord. And like I said

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of this question, there's probably a lot

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Speaker 1: of people who go, that sounds boring because you're not

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Speaker 1: thinking of it in that you're thinking of it in

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Speaker 1: terms of largemouth bass and green grass and blue skies.

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Speaker 1: The creator, the guy, the one, the being that invented

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Speaker 1: blue skies and green grass and largemouth bass, the one

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Speaker 1: that every song, the most beautiful songs you've ever heard

729
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: in your life, the one that invented music, right of

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00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: every beautiful girl or handsome boy you've ever seen in

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Speaker 1: your life, the one that invented handsome boys and beautiful girls,

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Speaker 1: the one that the way you love your child, or

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Speaker 1: your wife or your grandfather, the way you love them,

734
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Speaker 1: the feeling you felt, the butterflies you felt, the one

735
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: that created them is going to be right in front

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Speaker 1: of your face, unveiled, unfiltered, with you, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: just be in the presence of that and go. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to go anywhere else. I just want to

739
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Speaker 1: stay here, Please Lord, I want to I just want

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Speaker 1: to soak up this moment. I can't as I describe this,

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Speaker 1: I can't possibly portray what this might mean for all

742
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Speaker 1: of us believers, but I could say it's going to

743
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Speaker 1: be beyond our wildest dreams. Yeah, that's how I picture heaven.

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Speaker 1: All end the podcast there, but I love you guys.

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Speaker 1: If you have a question for me, email podcast at

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Speaker 1: grangersmith dot com and we'll see y'all next Monday. Gigi,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith podcast. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: all of you guys. You could help me out by

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Speaker 1: rating this podcast on iTunes. If you're on YouTube, subscribe

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