Hey, thanks for showing up. I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything

Show, affectionately known as Joe, where this season is all about truth-telling, finding the good,

and showing up for our lives today no matter what has happened even yesterday. All month,

we're making some important distinctions.

Sometimes even a slight difference in words is actually a really big difference in meaning.

It's definitely the case today, and it all has to do with actually just a few words difference,

but as we will talk about today, it makes literally all the difference in the world.

Trust me, you won't want to miss

this one. I'm in if you're in, so let's get into it.

One of the most popular sayings today isn't a new saying, but it's certainly made its way

into pop culture on hats, mugs, said by some

really influential influencers as part of their branding and so forth, we can do hard things.

And listen, I love this statement too.

For one thing, I'm an extremely determined person.

I do not like it when someone tells me that something cannot be done.

I believe with all my heart, if it was up to sheer

willpower, I'm one of the ones that could do the hard things. My only caveat with that is running a

marathon. Honestly, I even tried to do that once. And I I stopped training when I got up to like eight miles

because I decided it was dumb. I just flat out decided it was dumb to do it and I didn't want to do it.

Part of me thinks that I may never have been able to run that marathon because I never wanted

to do it. And then part of me says, well, yes, of course, you could

have run if your brain would have let you, because running, at least running like that for

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