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I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

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Hey there, happy Thursday to you. Welcome back to the program. Today we're going to talk about

how to alleviate stress from your life. In fact, the next two, maybe three episodes will revolve around

how do we lift the weight? So many of us, even though we're Christians, and we know where we're

going, and we know in whom we believe, we just have all this pressure on us, and we feel pulled

in all these different directions, and there's all of this anxiety that goes along with living everyday life.

I'm pretty sure that Jesus died to eliminate those kinds of feelings, and that his plan for prayer and trusting in him,

and living like the beatitudes teach, where we feel blessed and happy and fruitful and free every day,

no matter what we're facing. I'm pretty sure that's what the Lord wants for us. Unfortunately,

there are a lot of God's people just so burdened down with everything that's going on, and daily

mental challenges and worries that are just stealing from them the kind of joy that the Lord

intended. We will talk about in the next episode, in episode 35, we will talk about things you can do

each and every day to plan for a stress-free day. So I'm already working on that. But while I was

doing research for that, I came across this article and I just have to share

it with you.

So before we get to where it's all going in the next episode, I want to give you a few big

picture items to think about.

There was an article written by a guy named Darius Faroe, F-O-R-U-X, if you want to look

it up.

The article is titled, Four Things I Gave Up to Be Free.

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