Hi, it's Chris Vallatin here. Welcome to my podcast where I hope to inspire you to walk

in your royal identity in Christ and experience God's goodness in every area of your life.

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enjoy this message. I was, of course, thinking about my mother on Mother's Day. She passed a year and a half ago,

and so I think this would be our, think, our first Mother's Day without her. And I was thinking

about my mother's sayings. My mom had little quotes. Did your, did your mom have quotes?

Does your mom have quotes like little sayings that she says?

My mother used to say, it takes all kinds of people to make the world go around.

You know, she had like four or five quotes, and now that I like know me, I like, I understand

why she repeated those all the time. I've come home from school and I went to a very, I went to

high school in a very troubled time. There was race riots and all kinds of the police were at our,

we're at our school all the time and I'd come home really frustrated and my mother would say,

it takes all kinds, and I go, I go I know takes all kinds of people to

make the world go around and another one she used to say to me Rome wasn't built in a day I think

that had to do something with my impatience and my hyperactivity because I would work I would do

models no matter what I did like I had to like stay until it was finished.

So I'd be like, one o'clock in the morning, my mother would come. I had a, we had a basement downstairs cellar. We lived in this very old house, and I'd fix it up to be a place to build models. And my mother would come down there at one o'clock in the morning. She's like, are you still up? I'm like, yeah, I have to finish this model.

And she'd say, Rome.

And I go, I know, it wasn't built in a day the other

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