Well, friend, this is my last episode of work and play before I take a two-month break from the podcast

and a six-month break from work and social media. I just want to use this time and space to

encourage you. And I want to speak life over you and I want to encourage you to speak life

over the people around you. I'll also tell you a little bit about what to expect from me for the

rest of the year. It's going to be a short and sweet episode and I kind of hope it feels like a

little podcast hug and I'm excited to know I'll see you again soon.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 125.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

Listen.

When I started this podcast over two years ago, my hope is that it would be an outlet for me to speak life, to speak life. That's it. That I would

be able to speak life over you wherever you are and that I would encourage you to do the same

in your own life. And today, I want to encourage you to simply do that to whomever you are with, even to yourself sometimes,

to whoever's in your family, to your coworkers, to the people in your life who are even difficult,

for you to speak life.

What we say with our words are so important.

Proverbs 1821 says life and death are in the power of the tongue.

The Passion Translation says,

your words are so powerful that they will kill or give life,

and the talkative person will reap the consequences.

As I'm recording this episode,, I am getting very close to having

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