Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and I want to welcome you to the Mosaic Podcast.

I want to also bring into some exciting things that are happening here.

If you go to the Mosaic app, you will learn about our conference coming up this year,

about MSC's new album and their tour across the

country and you can learn how to connect and be more involved in mosaic in so many

different ways and by the way we now have the mosaic YouTube channel

and you can go access not only these talks but

other fresh and new materials that are being created specifically for that

channel and so if you want to be connected in a richer and fuller way, not only be a part of the

podcast, get to the moussai gap and get to the channel and we'll see you there.

I know the announced last week that last Sunday was the last part of Battle Ready. But that was the last part before

the last part. But we may also pick it up next week. Because we don't want to bring this to a close until we are actually

battle ready. I've been doing this long enough where I've seen people's lives form in ways that are oftentimes

unexpected.

I have seen people that surprised everyone, people that others thought would never make it,

who faced such overwhelming obstacles and difficulties, that people had already written them off off but somehow they just kept getting up.

They just kept finding the way out of the rubble dusting themselves off and moving forward. And they inspire me. And I've also known people who were

so talented and gifted and they were brimming with potential and so oftentimes they were They were the focus of the admiration of everyone.

Everyone was sure they would make it.

But then they faced a crisis that was unexpected.

They had a failure that they couldn't imagine.

Then you watch them cycle in that one moment in their life and that moment circumvented all their future because

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