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Ever since, ever since me, got you late. Thanks for listening to this bonus podcast material, mid-days with Susie Larson. I'm Sizzy Larson, and I'm talking to author, Pastor of Joshua Gagnon. We just had such a fantastic conversation during the live show. We wanted to keep him on for a little bit of extra time. The title of his book is It's Not Over, Leaving Behind Disappointment and Learning to Dream Again. And Joshua, first of all, thanks for giving us a little extra time. It's an honor. Yeah, it's been such a great conversation. Will you say that discontentment is a major obstacle to achieving our God-given dreams? Unpacked that a bit more, if you would. Yeah, I struggle a lot with discontentment. I think we live in a generation or in a culture that struggles with discontentment. I'm always looking at what everybody else has, and I'm always feeling a little bit worse about what I have. And so, you know, even when we look at, you know, my neighbor's lawn,

my lawn can never get as green as that lawn. And it frustrates me. I'm like, man, why can't

I have that? And I think when it comes to chasing our God-sized dreams, we often live in that

same tension where we're comparing and we're feeling discontent because we're comparing our

lives to everybody else's life, right? Where we're feeling discontent because we're comparing our lives to everybody else's life, right?

We're feeling discontent because we don't have what they have.

And what we're a part of isn't growing as fast as what theirs is growing.

And we don't have the marriage that they have.

And I think a lot of times what happens is we take our eyes off of what God has called us to focus on, right? The dreams that God has put in our heart. And we start putting our eyes on everybody else's dreams. And I know this, that every time I compare the dream in my heart to everybody else's, I give away the attention that I should be focused on in my own. And so that's just something that I've had to learn over time. And it's nothing that I've overcome. I think discontentment will be something that I always struggle with if I'm being honest with you, Susie. Yeah, and I appreciate the honest, because I think it's true for all of us. And really, you know, in the day of digital platforms, Instagram, as you say, everywhere we turn, the temptation is so great because some people

just make it look easy. It's just not good for my soul. I don't like to waste time either,

so I don't spend a ton of time scrolling on social media. I post things and then I hop off.

But the idea of scripture saw this from the beginning of time, don't look to the left or the

right. You know, set our faces like Flint. I'd love to know just what that looks like for you on a day-to-day basis, because I'm sure there are a thousand distractions pulling at you, a pastor of a 10-campus church, and you now an author, you've got a lot going on. How do you keep the main things, the main things? Yeah. Yeah, since the beginning of time, like you said, you know, this feeling of not enough has come after us.

Even when we look at Adam and even the garden, right, they had everything,

and yet they still had discontentment.

So they went after something else.

And so it's something that's been a struggle in all of our

lives. And for me, you know, I really do struggle with that when it comes to social media.

I've had to fast social media at times for three years on my team, my team would post things on

social media for me because, man, I just, I'm not good when I, when I put my eyes on what everybody else is

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