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Welcome back to What

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Have You. I'm

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Rachel Jankovic. I'm Becca Merkel. And

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it's the mini advent train

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wreck podcast. It's the

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end where we realize we

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actually have no tips. We have no

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ideas. We don't want to recommend recipes

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because we're already out of the mood

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for them. We're feeling like, well, move

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on. Let's talk about a juice bath.

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We've run out of ideas, guys. No,

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we haven't. But we're, we,

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one of the things that I meant to

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recommend a couple days

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ago when I said that we

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were talking about gratitude. Okay,

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we're talking about that briefly. And I meant

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to recommend you may not

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think you're struggling with contentment because

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you might not think you're struggling

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with contentment. But you ought to

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open up the old audio

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book of Jeremiah Burroughs, The

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Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

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because just, wow, just right

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out of the blocks. It's just,

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wow. It's just so

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pertinent, so rich, so

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good. And just

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hilariously on point, which is, I

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don't know when Jeremiah Burroughs lived,

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do you? Probably. Well,

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I know, but I'm saying I'm going to

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look it up because it's really funny that

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you can have someone who lived quite

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some time past who just sees

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into your afternoon's behavior with

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incredible, yeah, 1599 to 1646.

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And boy, he just, with

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a laser pointer at the ugly. He

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only lived to 48 years old. Yeah.

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And he got the stuff did in that

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time and he knew how. was sitting.

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Mom, early 1700s. Oh

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yeah, 1500. Early 1600s and just had

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a read on the on the sorts of

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things that I need to hear. So

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what I'm saying is, and I wouldn't

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have, I'm just clarifying, I would not

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have said I'm struggling

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with discontent. So I actually think if you

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just want to think about being

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a Christian, this is the

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time and the place to do it.

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This is the Cask strikes admonition

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from someone who's just like,

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wow, I found your weakness

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and I'm going to poke it and you're going

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to be like, yes, I needed

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to hear that. So are you

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saying there's an audiobook of this? Yeah. Okay,

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so where do people find this audiobook? It's not audible. I

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think it was free on, I

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don't know if it still is, but I think

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I had it in my library and I don't

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remember if I was listening to it. So it's

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possible that I downloaded it thinking I was

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about to listen to it. I think I

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read it many years ago, but it was

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just wow. So what I'm saying

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is, I love, like now is the

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time when I am really, we're

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landing the holidays, but I'm really

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thinking about what's next

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kind of that you're like. And

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I love to read an organizational

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or cleaning book or something. And

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let me say, this is the

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one that will just, whoo, more

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of a fundamental thing. This is

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a little more, this is a

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little more getting down in it

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with stuff. We

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were really laughing this year because we got

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our basement ready for Jevon Aiden. So

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we had people move out of the basement and

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people move around in bedroom to clear it out for Jevon

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Aiden to be there. And

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there was an element of that that was really. a

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you know let us release

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any desponies in our home and bring

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them bring them to the main areas

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like could we find any bins of

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things that no one knows what to

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do with get them out here in

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front and center like get them and

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it and it's great to do that

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because one of the things

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that you notice is that you are

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living with a lot of things that you don't

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want yes and there's a

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way in which i feel like just

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turning yourself to some spiritual rigorous

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yeah and this is you as you point out

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he lived to be what did we say 48

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48 he the people of

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that time were just way more

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tuned into their own mortality and

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how like they turned a profit

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on their lives in a very

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aggressive way and it's

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really refreshing the way

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that they do not mess around with

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like like they're actually about the business

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of communicating something that they

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think is valuable yeah and they are

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not messing around with how you may

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feel about it yeah sure they're like

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i have a truth here's

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the truth the

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truth is that your problem is not submitting

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to god but

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i think it was more that i was

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just feeling like it was just like

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you hear my burrows all the way

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back from the 1600s is like

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get down christian get under

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the will of god this

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is this whole section talking

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about submission to god's will

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the content christian likes

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to get under and get down and

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get and he just he

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doesn't trouble himself no anyways

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this is my tip prepare

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both for christmas and beyond christmas

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by by ruffling out all of

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the death moneys and things that

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you might be storing up in

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your life that are making everything feel a

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little boggy. And you

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could, with the help of

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Jeremiah Burroughs, take a

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peek at some of those things and

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do a quick repent. Like,

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just like okey dokey or the

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jokey. Let us all

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have a quick free

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Christmas repent. And you

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know what? Nothing can make Christmas better

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or after Christmas better than

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you getting rid of the

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weird, just funny baggage of discontent. So

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I'm just saying, that's my hot tip.

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I'm not even doing that right before

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you're about to receive gifts

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is a great time. Oh, yes it is.

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It's a great time. And there's a little

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bit of a, and it's actually funny because

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I have, Mom has said this a lot

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and I realize, I know she loves this

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book and it's funny because I, I

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didn't realize, I know she loves the book and I've

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read it and I didn't connect it

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with that get under. Yeah.

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Is, I didn't realize that this is, this

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is a theme that old Jeremiah Burroughs really

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harks in on. And,

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but Mom is always like, get, like

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if you feel your heart rising

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up to have a problem. Yeah.

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This, this firm hand with your own

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heart that is get under God's will,

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like get under is,

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it's very funny because when you think about how

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much, like have you guys ever seen like, you

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know, miniature goats, that's

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the human heart right there. Like,

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like it doesn't matter what it is.

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It's like a hay bale that they

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shimmy up on it and then like

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to regally look out over

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their domain. You know, it could be

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a pop can that they're standing on,

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but they're on it and they're going

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to, they're going to,

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you know, pick

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their little chest out and look, yeah.

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And I'm like, the human heart is

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always trying to scramble up everything and

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anyone to stand above it and, and,

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and get big. You know, like any

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kind of like, I'm gonna be

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the parent of my husband's shoulder. Puffing

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my chest out, trying to be bigger,

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you know, trying to do, and just, it's

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just good. Oh, it's so healthy.

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It's so healthy sometimes to just be

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like, man, we can

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put a lot of nice language around

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what we're doing. That's just nothing other

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than a little dirty business of ours.

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And we have a lot of therapeutic terms.

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I'm not feeling seen at work. And what

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I would like to be seen, like I

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was a little goat. It's

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just funny how they, I'm not

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feeling seen, not feeling really appreciated.

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Right. You know?

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There's a lot of, are you struggling? A

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lot of feelings in there. Are you struggling

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with like, transitions and the way your life

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is changing? But what it really

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is, is that you need to get

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under God's will. Submit! And

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not only, his whole thing is it's one thing

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to submit, but it's another thing to

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be praising the name

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of God while doing that.

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And he talks about the whole difference

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between we're not just letting our, that

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you're not, it's not just a thing of reason.

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It's not just a thing. It's like how

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it has to be Holy Spirit enabled to

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be really content in God's will and in

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your place in God's will. Anyways,

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I don't see any downside to all

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of us, you know, getting

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a grip on this right now. No, there is no

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downside. Unless you let yourself get into

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a funk over it. Don't do that. That

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would be a downside. Is if you

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then decided to have a nice little

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wallow about like, oh, I'm so bad

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and I'm so not content and oh,

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I've failed in every way and oh, I've

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really screwed it up. Don't do

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that one. That one won't bring me in. You mean,

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don't do an introspective. If you're the sort of

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person whose husband sees that you're reading it, in

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a Puritan book and moans inwardly that

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it thinks, oh no, it's going to

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be a dark and heavy holiday. The

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reality is that when

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something points out your sins,

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it's the recognition that

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you've been carrying this around. Like,

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what a good piece of news that you don't

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have to. It's kind of like if

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you're really overweight and you want

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to lose weight and

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then someone's like, hey, you

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could unlock these ten pounds. Right.

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And they're like, how dare you?

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How dare you? It's actually a

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real gift that you can confess

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baggage and sin. But don't be

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an inspector. I think

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it's not the interest, I mean, yes, don't

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do that, but I just mean if you're

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genuinely convicted, genuinely repent

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and walk away from it, don't stay

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there in the wallowing and

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go because I feel like isn't

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there sort of a genre of

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maybe Instagram videos of I

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don't know what I'm quite

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picturing. It's like someone in a Snuggie

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who is lying down outside their back

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door kind of in the snow sort

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of moaning about something. I

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mean, you know, you think a different

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Instagram world than I am. I think

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they're supposed to be funny. I think

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they're like funny ones where they're like

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out there lying there having a cry.

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Yeah. And that is

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what you should not do now. That's

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what you shouldn't do the spiritual version

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of that. No, but if

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you want a little sparkling,

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insightful entertainment from the

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way back, try the rare jewel

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of Christian. All

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right. Merry Christmas. Until tomorrow. Bye.

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Bye.