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Well, welcome back to episode seven.

Alleluia. Happy Easter. We're here. We made it. Everybody survived. Well, it's good to be back. This Let Love podcast. My name is Sister Mary Grace. I'm Sister Veritas. I am Sister Anna Maculay.

Awesome. And it's such a gift I am Sister Anna Maculay.

Awesome.

And it's such a gift to be finally here in episode seven.

What a season.

I know. It's amazing. And you just want to keep saying the alleluia word. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've got to make up for lost time. Yeah. I know. Well, when we were, I mean, looking at this gospel, one of the things that really took us off God was the amount of running.

Yeah.

We like that theme here in this. Well, when we were, I mean, looking at this gospel, one of the things that really took us off God was the amount of running.

Yeah. We like that theme here in this house. Yeah, yeah. Because the Easter gospel is like they run to the tomb to see. Uh-huh. And it made me think of my brother. Tell us about your brother. My brother, Greg. Hi, Greg. I don't know if he's listening to this, but he was so cute when he was little.

Really?

But he was like a bigger boy, you know? Sure, sure.

She's like a large three-year-old, like just much larger than any other three-year-old. He just was. He was well loved. He was well loved, but just good genes, you know? At 10 months, he was 36 pounds, just to give you a sense. Anyway, but at three years old, he's just a little bigger. But he was on this soccer team called the timbits. And they had these little shirts, the timbit shirts. But he was so big that it didn't fit him totally. So his little belly. Cocoa stuck out, you know. And so anyway, he didn't really like soccer or running, like to stay still. But when the soccer ball came to him, he would sit on it. And all the other little kids was come around and just kick it. And like kick it as he's sitting on it. You just stay there resolutely, you know. But then when the whistle blew for, you know, the orange snack time, break time, he was the first one there. Most he was. He had a reason to run. Yeah, yeah. And the watermelon. That's so great. I'm sure he would have made a great goalie. If he can sit in the bowls and not let them pass, that's true. He was amazing. He ended up going into football. He played college football. He was pretty excellent at that.

That's awesome. Found his niche. He found his niche. But yeah, it's definitely just this sweet running story. Like, why do you run? You know? Exactly. What motivates you? Well, it reminded me, too, of a recent trip that Sister Ann, you and I were on this one. We were visiting actually the University of Oregon and we poured out our sticker trick and kind of just went on this big arcade area in the

middle of University of Oregon. And I don't think I've ever got so many knockbacks that we did there.

But it was so worth it. We just handed out again these stickers of good news and things that say,

you know, you're wanted. God

wants you to exist. You're irreplaceable, things like that. And I was having like a low track record in terms of actually giving these things away. And so I was kind of just getting a little foolish and bold in the end. And so I see down the end of the road this woman running and like, you know, full sports outfit. She was in the zone, had her air pods in. And I was like, you know what?

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