to see how dying to myself can give me such peace.

I just am blown away.

Like I could just cry about that because he's so faithful.

When we let go of I and I focus on you,

he just is so good to show up.

Hey everyone, welcome to Talk It Out. Aaron and I are here for you today with something new and exciting.

Now, first, it looks a little different today because Aaron is home with a sick little guy. Aaron, I'm so sorry.

Thank you. That's okay.

We're going to make it.

But look at my cute little puppy behind me.

You talk about that dog, like he's not the precious angel that he is.

It's good that people finally get to meet him, see that he is some joy in our life.

You said he's really good when he's sleeping.

When he's sleeping. Yeah,

like right now he's so great. Well, I am also out of town. I'm visiting our daughter's family and have been able to commandeer my son-in-law's podcast studio today at home. So thank you, Ryan.

We're very grateful to be able to sneak in here and do

what we want to do with our friends because today we're doing something, like I said, brand new.

It's called Talk It Out Small Talk. Because you know what? None of us got the time we think we have.

We want more time. We need more time. But what we are

doing here together every week is so important, studying the word, talking about how it impacts

our life, encouraging one another as friends. It's vital. And so we can do it in smaller portions of

time every now and then, and that's what this is all about.

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