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If you're wondering, how do I become the life of the party at holiday gatherings? Here's the fact that you can bring and to spark discussion, get a good discussion going, like a group discussion. And this is going to make you the life of the party? Yeah, I guess so. Okay. I just want to clarify for it. Okay. Anyway, it's true. You can tell them, this is true. Rain Deer, real reindeer.

Uh-huh. Okay. It will change their eye color from brown to blue in the winter. It helps them in low light conditions.

Hmm. Yeah. And then you can just like... Yeah. Talk amongst yourselves.

No, no, no, you don't. You walk out.

It's a drop the mic thing.

I don't think drop the mic in life of the party are the same thing. Yeah, that's not a discussion.

No, you don't.

You continue to engage in meaningful discussion.

There are emotions that if we just live with them all the time, they'll kill us.

Things like fear, anxiety, anger, it'll kill us.

Shame takes a big toll.

Huge toll.

It's interesting because the things that we're supposed to double down on,

the wisdom in the Bible, things like love and joy and trust, we know this, just psychologists

know this, those things push back on those other things. If you've got, if you're full of joy,

like the sense of well-being regardless of circumstances well

it's very difficult to be anxious at the same time when we're grateful we're giving thanks to

god it's very difficult to be anxious at the same time it's very difficult to be angry while

you're thanking god it's very difficult to be angry at people while you're praying for your enemies

all that stuff that we keep inside of us that kills us,

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