Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and I want to welcome you to the Mosaic Podcast. I want to also bring

into some exciting things that are happening here. If you go to the Mosaic app, you will learn

about our conference coming up this year, about MSC's new album and their tour across the

country and you can learn how to connect and be more involved in mosaic in so many

different ways and by the way we now have the mosaic YouTube channel and you

go access not only these talks but

other fresh and new materials that are being created specifically for that

channel and so if you want to be connected in a richer and fuller way, not only being part of the

podcast, get to the moussaic app, and get to the channel. And we'll see you there.

So this month has been an interesting month for me because it's exactly a year since I wanted to have surgery to remove the cancer that was eating away at my body.

And so I've spent a lot of this month speaking at events around the world that I had to cancel last year.

And I canceled them last year not knowing if I would ever have the opportunity to step into those moments

again.

But wonderfully, I'm here. I'm so excited that we have another year to make the world a better place.

Another year. Another year to help you discover who you are and to live the life that you were created to live.

And that for me is so exciting because I understand the potential that's in this room,

the potential that's inside of you.

Have you ever felt like somehow there was a disconnect between the dreams that were placed inside of you and the talent that was given to you?

You know, there's this painful distance between the life you can imagine and the ability you seem to have to live life.

Sometimes it feels like we're trying to cash $1,000 checks with 38 cents in the bank.

I have these huge dreams and aspirations, but why did God short change me on the intelligence and talent side?

And maybe you're here and a moment like this, it's not really about trying to find God.

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