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Welcome to another episode of Pass the Mic.

Dynamic Voices for a diverse church powered by the Reforms African American Network.

I'm your host Tyler Burns.

You can follow me on Twitter at Burns 23.

We got Jiamartizmi in the building too.

What's going on, Jame all, same all, man.

We are rounding out finally the end of the school year,

although we have an extended school year,

so we have students in the building till June 15th,

which is like full two and a half weeks past everybody else.

So everybody's kind of antsy, including the adults.

And it's funny because I've been reading through Colossians and in chapter 1 verse 11 it says may you be

strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for all endurance

and patience with joy and those two words with joy.

And those two words, with joy just struck me, right?

Like it's is one thing to sort of grit your teeth

and have endurance and patience

and just kind of get to where you're going.

But as a whole other thing to do that with joy,

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