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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry.

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Speaker 1: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 2: Friend, reappreciate you, and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes.

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Speaker 2: If you're ever in our area, please stop by and

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Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services. I'll promise

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Speaker 2: you we'll make you feel right at home. I like

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Speaker 2: to start with something funny, and I heard about this

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Speaker 2: lady that died, and she was at the pearly gates

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Speaker 2: and Saint Peter said, you can't come in yet.

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Speaker 1: You have to correctly spell a word. She said what word?

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Speaker 1: He said, any word, So she spelled the word love,

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Speaker 1: l ovee. He said, welcome to heaven. Then Peter asked

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Speaker 1: her if she would take his place for just a moment.

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Speaker 1: He instructed her if anybody came up.

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Speaker 2: Just to follow the same procedure. A few minutes, she

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Speaker 2: sees her ex husband walking up. She can't believe it, says,

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Speaker 2: what are you doing here? He said, I just had

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Speaker 2: a heart attack. Did I really make it to heaven.

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Speaker 2: She said, not yet. You have to spell a word correctly.

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Speaker 2: He said what word. There was a long pause, and

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Speaker 2: she said, Czechoslovakia. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about emptying out the negative. It's easy to go through

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Speaker 2: life holding on to things that are weighing us down.

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Speaker 1: Guilt, resentment, doubt, worry.

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Speaker 2: The problem is when we allow these things in, they're

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Speaker 2: taking up space for the good things that should be there.

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Speaker 2: Imagine your life is like a container. You were created

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Speaker 2: to be filled with joy, peace, confidence, creativity. But if

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Speaker 2: you allow worry in, it pushes out the peace. There's

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Speaker 2: not space for both. You can't go above one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: You have a limited amount of room. If you allow

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Speaker 2: guilt to take up space, that's space that you don't

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Speaker 2: have for the confidence you need. And the reason some

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Speaker 2: people don't enjoy their lives is because their container, their heart,

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Speaker 2: is contaminated with so many things. They have ten percent worried,

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Speaker 2: stressed out over their job, twelve percent bitterness, mad at

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Speaker 2: nine percent jealousy their coworker is more beautiful they don't

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Speaker 2: realize seventy percent of their container is negative. They wonder

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Speaker 2: why they don't have joy, creativity, passion. They only have

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Speaker 2: room for thirty percent of what they should have. The

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Speaker 2: scripture says give no place to the enemy. It's not

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Speaker 2: just talking about forces of darkness. That means give no

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Speaker 2: place to guilt, give no place to worry, give no

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Speaker 2: place to bitterness. It can't come in and automatically take over.

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Speaker 2: You control what's in your container. You control what you

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Speaker 2: think about, what you choose to allow in.

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Speaker 1: And we all have negative emotions and negative feelings. You

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Speaker 1: have to make the choice. I'm not going to.

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Speaker 2: Give this jealousy, this bitterness, this anger valuable space and

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Speaker 2: let it poison my life. I'm going to protect what

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Speaker 1: From the day before.

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Speaker 2: Somebody offended you at work, they didn't treat you right.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to let that offense stay. It feels good

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Speaker 2: Say no, I am not giving this offense any room.

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Speaker 2: I Am not going to let it sour my day.

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Speaker 2: They hurt you once, don't let them continue to hurt

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Speaker 2: your destiny. Or you wake up in the morning and

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Speaker 1: How are you going to pay your bills?

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Speaker 2: What if the medical report's not good, You'll never get

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Speaker 2: I know God's in control. He's got me in the

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Speaker 2: Life is too short to go through it with negative

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Speaker 1: David said in Psalm one three.

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Speaker 1: Now I've learned, if you'll empty.

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Speaker 2: Out the negative, if you'll make room, God will fill

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Speaker 2: will fill you with peace. You empty out the insecurity,

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Speaker 1: God will fill you with confidence.

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Speaker 2: My question today is is God trying to fill you.

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Speaker 1: With good things? But there's no room.

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Speaker 2: Your container is full of worry. Regret, bitterness, jealousy. Why

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Speaker 2: don't you start emptying that out? Somebody did you wrong.

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Speaker 2: You could hold on to that bitterness. Instead, God, I

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Speaker 1: I let it go. You didn't just forgive. You made

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Speaker 1: when he'll give you beauty for ashes, joy for morning.

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Speaker 2: You're in a tough season. The medical report wasn't good.

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Speaker 2: You should be stressed worried. Instead, God, I trust you.

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Speaker 2: You said you would restore health back into me. You

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Speaker 2: You empty out the worry. God will give you peace

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Speaker 2: in the midst of the storm.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps a coworker got the promotion that you work so

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Speaker 1: hard for, envy, jealousy will come.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand that. Instead of letting that stay, God,

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Speaker 2: I know you're.

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Speaker 1: No respector of persons.

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Speaker 2: You did it for them, I know you can do

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Speaker 2: out of favor. He doesn't have a limited supply. If

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Speaker 2: you will empty out the jealousy, then when it's your

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Speaker 2: time to be promoted, God will open doors that no

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Speaker 2: man can shout. If somebody what you wanted, that simply

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Speaker 2: for you. If they got the man you wanted to date,

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Speaker 2: let's make it real. If they got the girl you

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Speaker 1: In, don't be upset. God knows what he's doing. If

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Speaker 1: it worked out your way, it would be second best.

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Speaker 1: Bottom line, what has your name on it is not

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Speaker 2: That will poison your life. Empty it out. God is

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Speaker 1: What has your name on it will show up.

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Speaker 2: God promises, if we will make room, he will not

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Speaker 2: only fill us with good things.

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Speaker 1: But he will keep us young and strong.

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Speaker 2: And the reason some people are not young and strong,

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Speaker 1: Worry will make you weak.

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Speaker 2: Living stressed out will make you old, give you wrinkles,

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Speaker 2: Take your passion. Being bitter, angry, resentful will shorten your life.

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Speaker 2: Proverb says, A relaxed attitude lengthen's life. You can be

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Speaker 2: eighty years old and young at heart. Your spirit never ages.

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Speaker 2: I met a woman in the lobby a while back.

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Speaker 2: It was her one hundredth birthday. She was standing there,

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Speaker 2: her mind was as sharp as can be. I ask

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Speaker 2: She said, I don't worry. I let things go and

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Speaker 2: in one hundred years, she's had trouble. People have hurt her,

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Speaker 2: She's made mistakes, life has happened, Offensives have come, but

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Speaker 2: out and lot. God promised He's filled her life with

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Speaker 2: and energy. The way this happens is give no place

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Speaker 2: the offenses, Empty out the worry you make a mistake,

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Speaker 2: empty out the guilt you didn't do your best. Empty

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Speaker 2: out the regret, do better next time. Nobody gave you credit.

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Speaker 2: Empty out the self pity. You had a bad break,

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Speaker 2: you don't understand it. Empty out the questions.

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Speaker 1: If you'll get good at emptying out the negative.

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Speaker 2: You'll be like this lady, strong, young, vibrant, full of faith,

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Speaker 1: Jesus said, blessed are the pure in heart. They will

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Speaker 1: see God. That word pure, in the original language is

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Speaker 1: where we get our word cathartic. It means cleansing, releasing.

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Speaker 2: You have surgery, sometimes the doctor will put in a catheter,

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Speaker 2: same root word. It's a tube that drains out the

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Speaker 2: impurities of the body. You can't get up to use

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Speaker 2: the facility. That catheter automatically takes what's not beneficial, the toxins,

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Speaker 1: To release the impurities of life.

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Speaker 2: When you get in a habit like this catheter of

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Speaker 2: what bitterness is to our spirit, It's infection. Guilt is infection. Worry, doubt,

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Speaker 2: self pity. These things are not unusual. Impurities come.

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Speaker 1: You have to push them out.

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Speaker 2: It's when we hold onto them that it contaminates our

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Speaker 1: You weren't created to carry around guilt, regret, bitterness, anger.

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Speaker 2: That poisons your life. Well, Joel, I'm bitter because I

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Speaker 2: had a bad break. I'm sour because somebody walked out

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Speaker 2: on me. I say this respectfully. That's simply an impurity.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you release it so it doesn't infect the

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Speaker 2: rest of your life. Don't let a disappointment, a divorce,

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Speaker 2: worried about my health, worried about my finances, worried about

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Speaker 2: my children. Worry is a part of life. Those thoughts

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Speaker 2: you forward. That's an impurity that wasn't meant to stay.

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Speaker 1: You have to release it.

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Speaker 2: God, I don't see a way, but I know you're

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Speaker 2: still on the throne. I know you're bigger than this problem.

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Speaker 2: I know you're supplying all of my needs.

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Speaker 1: You just released the toxin. Are you holding on to infection,

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Speaker 1: to impurities? Angry? Jealous, worried, discouraged? Maybe you had a disappointment,

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Speaker 1: something didn't work out. Imagine there's an angel that has

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Speaker 1: a delivery with your name on it. It says beauty

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Speaker 1: for ashes, new beginning, new opportunities, new friendships. He's in

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Speaker 1: with one of those good things. The problem is, if.

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Speaker 2: You're holding on to the old, there's no place for

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Speaker 2: him to deliver it. I wonder how many things are

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Speaker 1: The angel is standing.

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Speaker 2: By with our joy, our peace, our confidence, our creativity,

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