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Thank you. the truth tool, the joy of Jesus doorbell fills this house with fear dysfunctional family christmas is here sorry just couldn't help it matthew west has a brand new

song out.

And I think it's a great way to start our conversation today.

Hello, friends.

Welcome to In the Market with Janet Partial.

I'm so glad you're with us because we're going to talk about how we can avoid that dysfunctional family stress that Matthew West is singing about.

It's the holidays.

Every single one of us want that

experience to look like something out of a hallmark movie. It just doesn't happen. And we really

want it. And then we get stressed. And then that person that you're related to by blood or marriage

is going to be sitting around that table. You've avoided them like the black plague all year long.

And yet you have to

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