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When Joel and I first started dating many years ago, we had a mutual friend.

I didn't know this at the time, but my friend was talking behind my back with Joel.

She would say things like, she likes you, she told me she did.

And Joel would say, well tell me what she said.

What did she think about our first date?

He began to question her and she began to tell him, just keep doing what you're doing.

She really likes you a lot.

So he began to hear how much I liked him at the very start of our relationship.

And so it gave him the confidence to pursue this relationship.

And he began to pursue a relationship with me.

He found out something very important.

He found out that I liked him too.

A lot.

So as we continued with our relationship, discovering things about one another, learning things about one another,

and it began to grow and it began to flourish.

And 29 years later, it's still growing and it's still flourishing.

You see Joel went from hearing that I liked him, to experiencing that I liked him.

He went from hearing to literally knowing by my words and by my actions.

And too often, we sit on the sidelines of life because we hear something is good,

but we don't allow it to develop a confidence in us to pursue what is good,

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