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Speaker 1: Well, our next guest here on the INDJ podcast.

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Speaker 2: You are very excited about because he is a familiar

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Speaker 2: face to us. TJ.

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Speaker 1: We met Pastor Levi Lusco in September of twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: We had a favorite segment when we hosted GMA three.

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Speaker 2: What was that segment?

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Speaker 3: It was Faith Friday. And I'm thinking back to September

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Speaker 3: of twenty twenty one. Oh, what a simpler time it

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Speaker 3: was for us, wasn't it?

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Speaker 2: Yes, it certainly was.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, But we were able to have on faith

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Speaker 1: leaders every Friday who would lead our viewers into the

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Speaker 1: weekend with some inspiration, and we certainly took so much

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Speaker 1: with us as well, and it ended up becoming our

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Speaker 1: favorite segment. And so yes, I remember you remember Pastor

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Speaker 1: Levi Lusco. He has a powerful story of how he

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Speaker 1: became the amazing person he is and I know he's

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Speaker 1: still becoming. But cool thing as anyone who is a

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Speaker 1: fan of the podcast, I hope knows that one of

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Speaker 1: my best friends, we've done one or two podcasts with her.

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Speaker 2: Nikki Espina.

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Speaker 1: She's my running buddy, she's my best friend, and she

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Speaker 1: happened to go to Brooklyn the other day to go

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Speaker 1: to a run club that was hosted by none other

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Speaker 1: than Pastor Levi Lusco, and she said, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: I ran into Levi Lusco. He has a brand new

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Speaker 2: book out.

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Speaker 1: It's called and I'm going to give you guys the

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Speaker 1: title here because I love it. Blessed are the Spiraling,

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Speaker 1: How the chaotic search for significance can lead to joy

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Speaker 1: through life's shifting seasons. And she sent me the book

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Speaker 1: and she said, you gotta listen to this. But also

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Speaker 1: I got to run with him. I got to run

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Speaker 1: with Levi's daughter, his wife. It was an inspiring moment,

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Speaker 1: and so I thought, wow, I didn't First of all,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that Pastor Lusco ran and was such

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Speaker 1: on and talk about them. So without further ado, Pastor

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Speaker 1: Levi Lusco, thanks for being with us today.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's such a joy. I look back

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Speaker 4: and I've always had such warmth in my heart towards you.

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Speaker 4: And so what a small fun world to collide. I've

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Speaker 4: tracked with your journey I love watching the runs TJ.

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Speaker 4: Your hamstring thing. I felt the pain with you. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so it's really thank you for having me on the podcast.

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Speaker 3: That's cool to hear. And to your title, can I

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Speaker 3: get right to that? Blessed are the Spiraling? Now? A

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Speaker 3: lot of people can relate to that, and I think

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Speaker 3: the spiraling? Is that essentially everybody?

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Speaker 4: I think sadly it tends to be almost all of

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Speaker 4: But we all end up spiraling, and not always through

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Speaker 4: the end of my thirties, kind of that midlife energy.

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Speaker 4: and it can even be weirdly enough, through something good.

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Speaker 4: You can spiral because of something you always wanted. You

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Speaker 1: Things aren't always what they seem. You get that dream

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Speaker 4: But what I'm trying to communicate is that blessings and

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Speaker 4: who are reviled. Now, none of those things we would

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Speaker 4: But I think, according to Jesus, the true blessings comes

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Speaker 3: Can you hit on something a little more, you kind

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Speaker 3: sure somebody heard it when you said it, when you

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Speaker 4: What does that mean? I think it means that we

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Speaker 1: Pastor LEVI, Man, you what you just said hit so

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Speaker 1: And that is so difficult and at times felt like

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Speaker 2: But my god, I am a better person because of it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm hearing what you have to say and it's resonating,

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Speaker 1: but it's really hard, And how do you even know?

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Speaker 4: You know, what you're describing is so important. What we

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Speaker 4: I'm so grateful for that experience. What is that? That

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Speaker 3: I'm going back to the title of your book here

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Speaker 3: you're talking. You called it chaotic. Was a chaotic search

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Speaker 4: So Ronald Rollheiser said that success still feels good in

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Speaker 1: You recently posted Pastor Levi something on Instagram and I

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Speaker 1: wanted you to explain it because it caught my attention

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to know.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to go deeper with you.

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Speaker 1: You posted this quote you don't need to try harder,

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Speaker 1: you need to trust more.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 4: Well, I know for me, I tend to have a

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Speaker 4: really unhealthy relationship with myself and it's all performance. I'm

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Speaker 4: in Enneagram three e NTJ. So I'm so sick that,

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Speaker 4: like even a birthday, I struggle with not from the

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Speaker 4: aging process as much as I always I don't feel worthy.

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Speaker 4: I don't feel like if I if I accomplish, if

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Speaker 4: I haven't accomplished something, I don't necessarily feel like I

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Speaker 4: should get a cake. And you know, so I tend

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Speaker 4: to I find myself even like waiting to open a

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Speaker 4: present until I feel like I can meet a deadline.

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Speaker 4: And so I felt like the other day God was

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Speaker 4: saying to me Levi, I wish you could see you

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Speaker 4: like I see you, And God was saying I just

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Speaker 4: love you. You don't need to do anything to earn

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Speaker 4: my love. You just need to accept my love. And

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Speaker 4: like the prodigal son didn't earn the party or the robe,

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Speaker 4: or the ring or the feast, the father just loved him.

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Speaker 4: And so when I posted that, I was trying to

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Speaker 4: communicate it's not about what we have to do to

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Speaker 4: make God happy. I think sometimes religion pushes us into

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Speaker 4: this mentality where we're always getting angry eyes from God

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Speaker 4: and he's just saying, what have you done for me lately?

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Speaker 4: You better make the sure, you better quit cussing, you better,

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Speaker 4: you know whatever, and when really he just wants us

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Speaker 4: to love him and be loved by him, and that's

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Speaker 4: challenging for a striver like me, a doer. And so

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Speaker 4: I think there's power and surrender power in realizing God

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Speaker 4: is wanting to give us salvation as a gift, not

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Speaker 4: as a wage, and we don't need to earn his love.

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Speaker 3: Do you make a obviously your religious and faith based

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Speaker 3: in your books, your teachings, and but what do you

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Speaker 3: or how do you or do you try to at

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Speaker 3: all try to get people and get a message out

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Speaker 3: to folks who aren't religious, who are turned off by religion,

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Speaker 3: not that you're trying to turn them in any way

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Speaker 3: of form or fashion, but do you make a conscious

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Speaker 3: effort to make sure your message can be digested by

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Speaker 3: people outside of the faith world.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, I mean that's my goal. And heartbeat is

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Speaker 4: Jesus changed my life. I was fourteen experimenting with drugs

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Speaker 4: and alcohol, suicidal, and that's when I met Jesus and

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Speaker 4: he opened my eyes, gave me love, helped me understand

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Speaker 4: the power of true relationship with him, and that how

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Speaker 4: I found that through through scripture and through the church.

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Speaker 4: And I want everyone to experience that who's hurting and

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Speaker 4: who's anxious, and who's troubled, and who feels like they're judged,

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Speaker 4: whether it's through bad decisions they've made or pain they've

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Speaker 4: gone through. And so my goal is for sure, especially

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Speaker 4: for people who think, oh, I wouldn't like My favorite

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Speaker 4: is when I invite someone to church and they say, oh,

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Speaker 4: the roof would fall down on me if I came

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Speaker 4: in there, and I go, well, hasn't fallen down on

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Speaker 4: me yet, you know, And then to say like you

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Speaker 4: might think you don't like Jesus, but wait till you

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Speaker 4: meet him. Wait till you mean, wait till you read

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Speaker 4: what he has to say, what he wants to say

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Speaker 4: to you. That is powerful. And so my hope would

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Speaker 4: be to build a bridge to people who especially who

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Speaker 4: feel like they're outside the church or outside the wall

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Speaker 4: of God's love.

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Speaker 1: And Pastor Levi, for people who don't know your full story.

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Speaker 1: You have a son, you have four beautiful daughters, Olivia, Daisy, Clover,

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Speaker 1: and Lenya who passed away, and we talked to you

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Speaker 1: about her passing in the books you have written since

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Speaker 1: then for children and for adults to get through grief.

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Speaker 2: But did you go into a place of why me?

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Speaker 1: I mean, the passing of a child I think is

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Speaker 1: probably the worst thing any of us could imagine happening.

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Speaker 1: But anyone else who's gone through something terrible or awful

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Speaker 1: or unfair or unjust have often said those words, why me?

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Speaker 1: This isn't fair, and they question their faith and they

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Speaker 1: question their reason for living. Oftentimes, how did you get

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Speaker 1: through that? And what do you counsel to people?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I loved when we got to talk about Lenya

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Speaker 4: because it was her that allowed us to meet. I

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Speaker 4: wouldn't know you two if it wasn't for Lenya her

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Speaker 4: going to heaven prompted the writing of Roar Like a Lion,

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Speaker 4: which is what I was on GMA three promoting, And

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Speaker 4: you guys were so sweet and you were so obviously

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Speaker 4: impacted by her story, her life. She was five years old.

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Speaker 4: She had an asthma attack five days before Christmas. She

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Speaker 4: died in my arms while I was doing CPR, and

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Speaker 4: that night we were able to make the incredibly difficult

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Speaker 4: but important decision to give her corneas and her heart

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Speaker 4: valves to an organ transplant organization, and they took her

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Speaker 4: corneas and they gave them to two blind people, and

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Speaker 4: we found out later those two blind people received site.

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Speaker 4: And that's the metaphor of the book through the eyes

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Speaker 4: of a Lion, because her nickname was Lenda Lyon, and

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Speaker 4: so of course when that happened, and that was thirteen

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Speaker 4: years ago, so I've had a lot of chance to

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Speaker 4: grieve and heal my family and I and we miss

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Speaker 4: her every day when I drive, I drove by her

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Speaker 4: grave coming to today, and I miss her, but I'm

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Speaker 4: also looking forward to her because the Bible says in

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Speaker 4: my father's house are many mansions, and I go to

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Speaker 4: prepare a place for you, and what ultimately Christianity stands

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Speaker 4: on is not a set of teachings, but it's the

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Speaker 4: resurrection of Jesus from the dead, and he promises that

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Speaker 4: because of his resurrection, we all will share in that

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Speaker 4: resurrection life. And so Lenya is not thirteen years in

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Speaker 4: my rearview mirror. Every day as I age and grow,

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Speaker 4: I'm getting closer to her because she's in my future,

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Speaker 4: not just my past, because of Jesus. And so for me,

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Speaker 4: I want to share that with as many people as

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Speaker 4: I can. And that's what through the Eyes of a

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Speaker 4: Lion is about. It's facing incredible pain but finding incredible power. Right.

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Speaker 4: It's also roar like a lion, helping kids process grief.

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Speaker 4: And so even though there was definitely sad moments, low moments,

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Speaker 4: grief is powerful and you have to let it run

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Speaker 4: its course. And so I would have I would run

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Speaker 4: the gamut of anger and bargain and all of those

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Speaker 4: different things by lunchtime, but there wasn't as much. Why

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Speaker 4: I think the anger and all those things, I think

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Speaker 4: God just met me where I was as I was

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Speaker 4: honest with him of what I was facing, and I

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Speaker 4: think what God kind of told me was even if

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Speaker 4: you knew why, it wouldn't help you. This is going

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Speaker 4: to be hard no matter what. But I'm with you,

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Speaker 4: and Linya's with me, and I found great comfort. Especially

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys have watched The Chosen

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Speaker 4: the Betrayal of Jesus on episodes of TV.

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Speaker 2: We haven't seen it. We haven't seen it.

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Speaker 4: You have to watch it. It's incredible. It's five there's

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Speaker 4: five seasons. It walks you through the Gospels and it's

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Speaker 4: portrayed on screen beautifully. Jonathan Rumy And there's an episode

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Speaker 4: where Jesus is hanging out with little kids, and the

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Speaker 4: Bible says little kids loved to be around Jesus, and

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Speaker 4: the disciples thought they needed to show him off because

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Speaker 4: they were a nuisance. But Jesus said, let the kids

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Speaker 4: come to me. And when you watch in the scene,

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Speaker 4: you see the tenderness and the curiosity, the whimsy. Jesus

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Speaker 4: makes toys. He's a carpenter, he would make toys for

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Speaker 4: little kids. It made me feel such a sense of like, Hey,

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Speaker 4: my daughter's good, she's with she's with God, and I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna I'm going to see her again.

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful. That is so beautiful, so pastor live. How

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Speaker 2: many books have you written now?

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Speaker 4: Nine total. I have one unreleased book that comes out

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Speaker 4: this fall. That's a book about worry and anxiety for children.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that is That is a very useful book and

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Speaker 1: a very much needed book.

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Speaker 2: Just the way we're all headed.

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Speaker 1: We I think so many people have talked about we

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Speaker 1: have more therapy available than ever before, and more drugs

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Speaker 1: available than ever before, and yet the suicide rates continue

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Speaker 1: to rise, depression rates continue to rise. So we very

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Speaker 1: much look forward to that. And I mean you're just

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Speaker 1: you're continuing your work through the written word, but also

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Speaker 1: your pastoral services. You you're in Montana, but you you

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Speaker 1: actually you have an online people can see you wherever

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Speaker 1: they are in the world.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a what a gift. I mean, talk about

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Speaker 4: a double edged sword. What you just mentioned is so true.

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Speaker 4: And I think if you look back, literally the hockey

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Speaker 4: stick up of anxiety and suicide and the iPhone are

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Speaker 4: literally in in. You know, there's there's there's there's a

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Speaker 4: negative to the technology. There's a negative to TikTok, there's

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Speaker 4: a negative to YouTube. There's a pressure that comes from that.

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Speaker 4: But there's also the good and for for one of

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Speaker 4: the good things that I've been grateful for is every

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Speaker 4: time I preach. I've you know, we have this church

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Speaker 4: in Montana, but every time we preach, there's people listening

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Speaker 4: in every single state and all across the world because

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Speaker 4: of YouTube. And so there's the negative, but there's also

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Speaker 4: the positive of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're running again, what's you got a race

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Speaker 3: on your calendar?

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, we need to run together. I'm doing it.

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Speaker 4: We are staff. Every summer we do a staff run.

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Speaker 4: We call it the Two Snakes Invitational because the first

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Speaker 4: time we did it, we saw two snakes on the course.

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Speaker 4: It's a you would love this. It's ten miles, but

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Speaker 4: you gain two thousand feet of elevation in the first

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Speaker 4: five and then you come down two thousand feet so

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Speaker 4: down you're flying because your feet barely shuts the ground

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Speaker 4: but ups the grind.

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Speaker 2: Oh where is this?

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Speaker 4: We do it in just outside of Whitefish for our staff.

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Speaker 2: But that sounds fun.

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Speaker 4: You guys got a gut here, we get a run

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Speaker 4: or all come out to New York and one of

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Speaker 4: the other.

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Speaker 3: Right, you have takers for that run. People actually do

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Speaker 3: that with you out there.

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Speaker 4: Two snakes Our staff is crazy. They love it, and

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Speaker 4: we bring in rental saunas and cold plunges so at

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Speaker 4: the end, at the finish line, we all get in

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Speaker 4: the cold plun Have you guys gotten into all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I've done a cold plunge a couple of times. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it can take your breath away and

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Speaker 1: scare you a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's you feel great when you get out,

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 4: But managing your breath. I mean, they say that I

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Speaker 4: have trouble sleeping. They say it resets your kind of

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Speaker 4: rhythm for sleep, the anxiety, the grit, and also just

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Speaker 4: the reminder like I can do hard things because i

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Speaker 4: want to get out of the water, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: breathe my way through. I feel like that's transferable to

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Speaker 4: other areas of life.

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Speaker 3: Agreed, Levitt, We are not kidding. Please, please please, when

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Speaker 3: you are coming to New York, give us a heads up.

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Speaker 3: We will absolutely plan a run. We'll have you in

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Speaker 3: studio do the whole thing, but at the very least

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Speaker 3: we'll get a run in together. You gotta let us

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Speaker 3: know you got it.

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Speaker 4: Last time we were training for the Two Snakes last summer,

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Speaker 4: I was coming back from London and we had a

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Speaker 4: two day layover in New York and just slowly working

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Speaker 4: our way west by taking the time change away. We

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Speaker 4: had started in South Africa and then we ended at

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Speaker 4: London and New York and then Montana eventually, so each

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Speaker 4: day two days like to help the time change, you know,

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Speaker 4: moving that way. But I was I had when I

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Speaker 4: got home, we had the two snakes. That's so my

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Speaker 4: final training run was I did nine miles around Central Park.

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Speaker 4: I did it was like one and a half times

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Speaker 4: around it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, did you do the Harlem Hill twice?

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Speaker 4: It was Father's Day? Was knowing up it was amazing.

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Speaker 4: What's your favorite New York run?

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Speaker 1: The West Side Highway as our jam. We love it,

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Speaker 1: we love it. But I also love running over the

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bridge because we're really close to that, so that's

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Speaker 1: really fun, and then running along Dumbo and all of that.

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Speaker 1: Just looking back at Manhattan as gorgeous too. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a ton of beautiful places. We like Central Park.

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Speaker 1: We just don't get up there that all and.

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Speaker 3: We get lost in the park.

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Speaker 4: We can't figure it out. Have you run the Golden

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Speaker 4: Gate Bridge?

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Speaker 1: I have run it, just just when I was on

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Speaker 1: a work assignment my hairstylist and I ran over the

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Speaker 1: bridge and back.

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Speaker 2: It was I love running on bridges.

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Speaker 4: That's a very mean too, Brooklyn. I've done the Golden Gate.

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Speaker 4: I was like trying to think of like what other

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Speaker 4: like like the I don't know if it would be safe,

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Speaker 4: but like that Key West One would be fun. That

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Speaker 4: Race Highway, I don't know, that would be beautiful.

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Speaker 2: The Cooper River bridges. They do that in South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: I ran that race before, although now it's just one bridge,

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Speaker 1: I think, but I'm showing my age clearly. We need

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Speaker 1: to run, we need to run together, and we would

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Speaker 1: love to. In fact, even if it's when your next

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Speaker 1: book comes out. You're back in New York doing your

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Speaker 1: press tour, we would love to have you back in.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to go on a run with you.

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Speaker 4: It sounds like a day and then Monte as well.

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Speaker 4: So thanks for having me on today.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Pastor Levi Lasco, thank you so much for inspiring us.

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Speaker 1: It was nice to talk to you more than three

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Speaker 1: and a half minutes, which was our segment time on

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Speaker 1: GMA three. Nice to have you to really actually get

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Speaker 1: to hear you talk about just your beautiful faith and

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Speaker 1: sharing it with all of us.

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Speaker 2: So thank you, have a beautiful day and we will

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Speaker 2: run with you soon