Hi, this is Joel in Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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I like to start with something funny and I heard about this lady that died and she was at the pearly gates and St. Peter said,

you can't come in yet, you have to correctly spell a word.

She said what word? He said any word.

So she spelled the word love, L-O-V-E. He said welcome to heaven.

Then Peter asked her if she would take his place for just a moment.

He instructed her if anybody came up just to follow the same procedure.

A few minutes she sees her ex-husband walking up.

She can't believe it. She says what are you doing here?

He said I just had a heart attack. Did I really make it to heaven?

She said not yet. You have to spell a word correctly.

He said what word? There was a long pause and she said check us Lavakia.

I want to talk to you today about empty and out the negative.

It's easy to go through life holding on to things that are weighing us down.

Gilt, resentment, doubt, worry.

The problem is when we allow these things in, they're taking up space for the good things that should be there.

Imagine your life is like a container.

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