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Well, it's only just a matter around. It's only just a't do dance. You don't have to know how to ever since, ever since we've got you late. Welcome to Middays. I'm Susie Larson. So honored to get to spend this time with you. In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, the deep in your understanding of God's word, and that heighten your awareness of his very real presence in your life. So you're a sincere follower of Christ. You try to

do the right thing and love people well, but you have someone in your life who seems impossible

to deal with. They're controlling, divisive, they never seem to be happy. You've tried to help,

but to no avail. Worse yet, their life seems to

negatively impact yours. Is it Christian to just walk away? Well, my guest today says,

Christians need to stop worrying about the unhealthy fallout of unhealthy people who are challenged

by healthy decisions. He also says, we can't let others steal our joy and our mission. It's time to strengthen our

defense, learn to set good boundaries, and focus on our God-given purpose. My friend Gary Thomas joins me

today to talk about this book. I literally could have tweeted pretty much every line in the book.

It's underline worthy. It's fantastic. It's titled, When to Walk Away, Finding Freedom from

Toxic People.

This is going to be a conversation. I'm praying God helps us use our time well because I have more content that I want to talk about than we do have time.

We've got four copies of this hardcover book.

We've got a new process.

I'm asking for your grace because it sure helps our team behind the scenes.

It just takes you a minute.

But if you want to text 877933933-24-8-4. Just text the word book.

You'll get a link back and you can enter the drawing throughout the show. If you've got questions

or comments that we can weave into the conversation, use that same phone line to text. And I'll do my

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