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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. On today's

Stone Choir, we're going to begin, well, will probably be a two, possibly three-part series on the image of God.

Before we get into the subject, just a few minutes of housekeeping,

if you're listening to this later on, you can skip add probably five or eight minutes.

Just want to catch up for a minute on some things that are unrelated to the subject.

First, apologize for the last couple weeks of not being able to deliver an episode on time.

It turned out that I had COVID. I didn't get tests. I've never been tested. But

the last time we were going to try to record that morning, my eggs didn't taste like anything.

And that's when I finally realized that the preceding two weeks of completely random symptoms

that would be TMI were basically amounted to what was probably some sort of low-grade COVID affection.

Like, I was never particularly sick. I was just miserable. But for a podcast, on the days that we

intended to record, I couldn't sit still for three hours. I couldn't think and I couldn't speak.

I lost my voice on one of the days. And podcasting is not a difficult thing to do, but you have to be able to do all three of those things at the same time. So today is the first day in three weeks that that's actually been possible. So I'm very sorry that we didn't have those episodes out. We try to do it every week. And we'll probably take a few weeks off in December, I think, again, like we did last year.

That was a nice break, but it wasn't a break. I was stressed out the entire time of failing to deliver.

Part of that is that this kind of is our job, in a sense.

You know, there are a lot of people who have donated some on an ongoing basis, and that means a great deal. And it also means that I want to

make sure I'm not ripping you off. I want to make sure that we deliver consistently. And so I apologize

for failing because I feel bad about it. That's why I keep talking about it. But at the same time,

had we tried to record, it would have been awful. And it wouldn't have deserved to be in the library.

So given the choice between doing something poorly and not doing it at all, we're not going to do it at all.

I thank you for your patience. There's plenty of episodes in the back catalog.

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