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Speaker 1: Hi, this is joelan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media.

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Speaker 2: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to start with something funny and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this elderly couple. They were sitting on a swing

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Speaker 1: celebrating their sixtieth wedding anniversary. In feeling romantic, the husband

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Speaker 1: said to his wife, honey, our love is tried and true.

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Speaker 1: She had difficulty hearing and ask him to repeat it.

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Speaker 1: He said it louder, I said our love is tried

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Speaker 1: and true.

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Speaker 2: She still couldn't hear him.

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Speaker 1: Said what when you speak up? Frustrated, he shouted, I said,

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Speaker 1: our love is tried and true. She said, well, fine,

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Speaker 1: I'm sick of you too.

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Speaker 2: Okay, y'all nothing inspiring, but.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Ready, this is my Bible and what

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Speaker 1: it says I am. I have what it says I have,

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 1: will never be the same.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about choosing to

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Speaker 1: be happy. When we make up in the morning, we

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Speaker 1: get to choose how we're going to live that day.

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Speaker 2: We can choose to.

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Speaker 1: Live in faith, happy, expecting favor, or we can choose

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Speaker 1: to live discouraged, defeated, focused on our problems. Happiness doesn't

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Speaker 1: automatically happen. It's a choice we have to make. You

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see what kind of day it's going

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Speaker 1: to be. You have to decide what kind of day

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Speaker 1: it's going to be. First thing in the morning. You

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Speaker 1: need to make up your mind. I'm going to live

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Speaker 1: this day happy. I'm going to see the good. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be grateful. I'm going to love my family.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to enjoy this day. If you don't decide

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Speaker 1: how you're going to live, circumstances will decide for you.

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Speaker 1: You'll see every problem, how it's not going to work out.

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Speaker 1: You'll think I don't feel like going to work. This

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Speaker 1: traffic's so bad. I never get any good breaks. When

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Speaker 1: you dwell on those thoughts, you may not realize it,

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Speaker 1: but you're choosing to live discouraged. You're choosing to have

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Speaker 1: a lousy day. The scripture says joy comes in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Every morning God sends you a fresh supply of joy.

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Speaker 1: You can dismiss it.

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Speaker 2: I think that's not for me.

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Speaker 1: I have too much coming against me. Or you can

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Speaker 1: receive it and say things may not be perfect in

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Speaker 1: my life, but I know God's.

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Speaker 2: On the throne. He's ordering my steps.

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Speaker 1: His plans for me are for good, so I'm going

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Speaker 2: This is what David did.

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Speaker 1: He had all kinds of opposition, armies trying to stop him,

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Speaker 1: people slandering him. But in the middle of all that

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Speaker 1: he said, this is the day the Lord has made.

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Speaker 1: I will rejoice and be glad in it. His circumstances

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Speaker 1: said he should be discouraged, afraid, lonely. If he was

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Speaker 1: reporting on the situation, he would have said, this is

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Speaker 1: the day the Lord has made, and I'm really discouraged.

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Speaker 1: That would have been the truth, but he wasn't reporting.

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Speaker 1: He was making a declaration of faith. He was saying,

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Speaker 2: I will be happy.

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Speaker 1: Despite people lying about me. I will be happy despite

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Speaker 2: I'm going to live this day happy.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to be happy, you have to be

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Speaker 1: happy on purpose, because there will be people, betrayals, delayed,

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Speaker 1: all kinds of things that can cause you to live sour.

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Speaker 1: You have to put your foot down and say that's it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not letting other people still my joy. I'm not

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Speaker 1: letting what's not working out cause me to be sour,

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Speaker 1: will live this day happy. See, your will is more

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Speaker 1: powerful than how you feel. David didn't feel happy when

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Speaker 1: he wrote this, but he declared.

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Speaker 1: Don't wait to feel happy before you decide to be happy.

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Speaker 2: You have to decide.

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Speaker 1: First, then the happiness will come. I like David. You

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Speaker 1: may feel discouraged. You may have a good reason. Things

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Speaker 1: were not fair, you went through a loss. Nothing looks

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Speaker 1: promising in your life. The enemy would love for you

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Speaker 1: to never get your hopes up to think that's the

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Speaker 1: day sour. You have to kick your will into gear.

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Speaker 1: will focus on the goodness of God. Your will is

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Speaker 1: going to override how you feel now. Mark of maturity

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Speaker 1: is when you can be happy even when things aren't

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Speaker 1: going your way, that your joy is not based on

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Speaker 1: your circumstances. Well, Joel, when the pandemic is over, I'll

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Speaker 1: get my joy back. When I finish school, I'll be

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Speaker 1: happy again. When the Texans win, I'll be in a

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Speaker 1: good mood. They be waiting a while when I get married.

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Speaker 1: When I get married, i'll be happy. Or if I

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Speaker 1: wasn't married, i'd be happy. If you're putting off your happiness,

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Speaker 1: there will always be some reason to not be happy.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you make a decision that you're going to

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Speaker 1: be happy today? Not when it clears up, not when

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Speaker 1: your boss changes, not when you lose twenty pounds, not

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Speaker 1: when you get the promotion. This is the day the

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Speaker 1: Lord has made. I've learned. If you don't get happy

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Speaker 1: where you are, you probably won't get to where you

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Speaker 1: want to be. Well, I can't stand this job. I

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Speaker 1: don't like working at this place. Try a different approach. God,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy that I have a job. Help me to

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Speaker 1: not let these people steal my joy. If you'll have

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Speaker 1: a good attitude where you are, that's a seed that

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Speaker 1: God will use to change things. But if you're sour

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Speaker 1: at that job and God gave you a better job,

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Speaker 1: when someone does you wrong there, you'll be sour at

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Speaker 1: that place too. You have to get happy where you are.

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Speaker 1: May not be in my dream house yet, but I'm

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Speaker 1: happy in this apartment. Not marriage yet, but I'm happy

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Speaker 1: being single. This health issue hasn't resolved yet. But God,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be happy while you're changing things. You

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Speaker 1: control your own happiness. It's not up to anyone else.

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Speaker 1: You're as happy as you want to be. I played

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Speaker 1: basketball with a young man. He was always in a

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Speaker 1: good mood and so friendly and upbeaten. One day after

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Speaker 1: tell anything was wrong. I said, I'm so sorry to

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Speaker 1: hear that. He said, don't feel sorry for me. Life

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful to be alive. He could have been depressed,

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Speaker 1: to live happy. I wonder how much more we would

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Speaker 1: start choosing to be happy. We can't get away from

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Speaker 1: negative circumstances. I can't tell you that having faith will

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Speaker 1: But I can tell you those things don't have to

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Speaker 1: take your joy. You're in control of your happiness. David

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Speaker 1: said in Psalm one. Happy are the people who's God

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Speaker 1: is the Lord. And sometimes we look at circumstances and

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Speaker 1: it's nothing to be happy about, fighting cancer, going through

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Speaker 1: a pandemic, having trouble at work, nothing good about that. Now,

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Speaker 1: the reason we can be happy is our God, is

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Speaker 1: on the throne.

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Speaker 2: He controls the universe.

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Speaker 1: He's our provider, he's our healer, he's our vindicator, he's

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Speaker 2: We can be happy that the.

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Speaker 1: Most powerful force in the universe is on our side.

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Speaker 1: No person can stop him. No bad break, no sickness,

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Speaker 1: no addiction, all the forces of darkness cannot stop what

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Speaker 1: God has ordained for you. It's significant that David started

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Speaker 1: off by saying, this is the day the Lord has made.

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Speaker 1: He could have just said I'm going to be glad today,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to rejoice. He was saying, God, I recognize

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Speaker 1: that you not only made this day, but you've allowed

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Speaker 1: me to be alive. You chose me before I could

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Speaker 1: choose you. You formed me in my mother's womb. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to waste this day living negative, focused

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Speaker 1: not here by accident. God could have chosen anyone to

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Speaker 2: He woke you up this morning.

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Speaker 1: crowned you with favor. He puts seeds of greatness in you.

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Speaker 1: He calls you more than a conquer the head and

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Speaker 1: We should feel a responsibility to live it in faith, happy, joyful,

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Speaker 1: good natured. Once this day is over, we can never

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Speaker 1: get it back. We don't have time to waste.

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Speaker 1: Discouraged, focused on what didn't work out, complaining over who

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Speaker 1: did us wrong? Get your joy back? Well, Joel, I'd

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Speaker 1: be happier, But I've been through hurts. People have done

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Speaker 1: me wrong. I say this respectfully.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's been hurt well.

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Speaker 1: I've had disappointments, bad breaks, lost, We all have. You

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Speaker 1: gonna take it for granted. I recognize it's a day

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Speaker 1: live it to the full. When you have that kind

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Speaker 2: Will give you beauty for ashes.

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Speaker 1: He'll make up for the wrongs. A few months ago,

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Speaker 1: there were some birds right outside our bedroom window. Five

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Speaker 1: I thought, there's no way those birds are gonna sing today,

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