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Today's talk comes from Pastor Buie Giglio.

We're at that time of the year where we have to go through this exercise called

thinking about the New Year. Anybody still in that zone or if we all just said,

hey, that was a thing that happened, it's over. We're really back to the regular scheduled

programming. Anybody decide I'm not eating X, Y, Z in 2023, but unfortunately you had that last night.

No, I'm just for real. I'm just trying to check in. See where we all are, how we're all doing.

I don't know about you, but coming out of 2020, that was a year.

Imagine if your word for the year in 2020 had been travel and adventure.

And you heard from God, you were committed, you had already written it at the top of your journal.

2020, this is my year. I'm going to see the world. I've got a list of nine places. I'm going to go,

I am going to be an adventurer in 2020. And you did. You adventured right down to the Dan,

and that was it. So 2020 kind of made us all think in 2021. Okay, things are going to shift and

change and be different and be easier. And then 2020 happened and we're like, man, that felt

rougher than 20, I mean, 2021 came and it was like, that was a little harder than 2020.

Because at least at 2020, we were all home, you know, just hanging around doing puzzles and getting

to know our family. And it wasn't all that terrible at the end of the day. In 2021, we're trying to

navigate going back to work, not going back to work. Do we feel okay going out? Do we feel better

staying in? And then we thought, well, 2022 is going to come. And I mean, this is going to be our year.

And I bet everybody had a word in 2022. And it was going to be like, yes. And then 2022 came

and it was like, okay, that wasn't great. So for 2023, I just decided I'm not going to make any

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