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Well, good morning, beautiful.

Welcome to a brand new day of life.

Happy Friday, my friends.

Look at that.

We've made it through the week.

We have a weekend just ahead.

What a beautiful day it is to get to be alive.

And I'm just so thankful for our time together this morning.

All right.

The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional

podcast is Your Unfolding Story. We're going to have story time this morning. I'm going to tell you

some true stories. And then we're going to talk about some scriptures and see how it applies to

your life. Yesterday was a nostalgic kind of day for me.

Fifteen years ago yesterday, we hosted our very first gathering and called it a retreat.

It was the most unimpressive duct-tape-taped-together event you have ever seen in the basement of a

city hall in Joplin, Missouri. And I've got to be honest with you, looking back, it's almost

embarrassing, but it was the beginning. I spent yesterday going through photos of every retreat since then. For the first time,

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