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Here's how this show works. Each day before the show starts for hours. I wake up early. I go out into the content fields and I find content for the show. Yes. And I hand select it. There's a lot of stuff out there, but it doesn't mean it's good content. That's right. And then I bring it to the show. Sherry doesn't know what that content's going to be. So in real time, she just has to, like, live with it. But I want you to know that I spend a lot of effort, like handpicking, artisanal, bespoke content. Each one is, even this, what I'm doing right now. I know. I know. And I spend a lot of time living with it. She does. So, yes. There's a lot of effort here. That's right. And then thinking about what we're wrong later on. But it's all... This is what you get. One thing to ask God for... This is a great idea, actually. Ask God to help you with your wanter.

What I mean by that is.

Okay.

Yeah, we all have wantters that make us want this or want that.

Like, help us to want the right things so that we flourish.

And if you're like, I know I have some things that I want that aren't that.

But like, okay, okay, that's being human.

But it's really honest with God to say, okay, I want some stuff that's actually bad, or I don't know if it's bad. Like, help me want the right things. I think you'll answer that prayer. Hey, so this may be you. There's a lot of people who listen and are listening right now. It is true of them.

They actually think, yeah, you know what? This stuff you're talking about about Jesus and stuff.

Yeah, I appreciate it. I don't think I can turn to God because of what I've done in the past,

honestly. I'm just too much of a mess. I've blown it.

And we all struggle with shame or have struggle with it. But you know what? You can actually have peace with God now. If he, it's available to you now. If you turn toward him, he comes running.

Like we're showing that. And Jesus' own story, he's talking about, he knows the heart of the father, like, where you are right now,

stopping down and calling out to God and going, you know what, God, you run this, run this. You're

my, you're my Lord now. There's no reason for any shame anymore.

Thought this was kind of funny.

I must be for the podcast.

There's a cartoon that has a frame on top and on the bottom.

And the frame above, you see a hand holding a mushroom.

And there's an AI robot smiling at it.

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