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So the word encouragement can lose it to me.

You hear the same word over and over.

It's like, what does that really mean?

In the Bible, like, there's one image that's used. It's the word to spur on, I guess, translated, encouragement. But to spur on

means keep going. Like, help people keep going. And I hope we're doing that for you as you listen to the

songs and stuff we get to talk about like it's always the goal yeah just keep

going and maybe it's maybe today it's a one foot in front of the other kind of day well it's okay

that's okay and maybe you don't have it figured out for tomorrow or a week from now or a year from now

or 10 years from now well guess what none of us control that going. Hey, if you see this study, they come

out with it every year. The happiest countries in the world, and they talk about it a lot. And it's

always Finland wins. And then it's followed by, Finland won again, didn't I? Followed by Sweden and

Norway. I went into, I was like, how are they determining that?

Because I've traveled quite a bit.

I haven't been to Finland, but I've been in a lot of places that don't have that much

money or anything.

I can't tell that the people are less happy.

Okay.

And sure enough, at the very bottom is just the poorest countries.

Uh-huh.

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