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Welcome back. Welcome back. We are excited to talk about patience today. This is definitely one

that resonates with us, as do every episode that we ever do. But we know that this is a timely

episode as there's so much to be patient with this year, so much to

be patient with in our hearts and with each other as we're in relationship. So listen into this

conversation and let us know what you think. And without further ado, let's get in.

Thank you. Hey, what's up, friends.

Welcome to this episode of the Encounter Now podcast.

My name's Nick.

Here's always with my lovely, fineas-wine wife, Chelsea.

Fine as wine.

Yes, ma'am.

And today we want to come at you guys with this episode and idea of the importance of understanding the virtue of patience.

And that's a long way of saying why it's important to be patient in your life. And there's a ton of reasons for this. And so we're not going to

go through all of them because I think that could be an infinite list. But we're definitely going

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