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Now, there are, and you know this, there are a lot of things that are worth carrying forward

in our lives from one season to the next one year to the next. Good friends, good habits.

And then, there are some things that we should leave behind, things that are not worth

carrying from one season to the next, from one year to the next. And for the next few weeks,

we're going to talk about one of those things because one of those things that all of us

should get in the habit of leaving behind are excuses, excuses, excuses are like paper walls.

Then from a distance, they look like real obstacles. From a distance, they look impenetrable.

From a distance, they look like we really don't have any choice, but to do what we're doing,

or not to do what we're not doing, or to not try, or to not try again. In fact, from a distance,

an excuse looks like an actual reason. Now, there's a reason I can't throw a 97-mile

in our fastball. But there is no actual reason for me not to, well, I'm not sure I know you

well enough to finish that sentence, but there are some things that I need to do that I have reasons

for, but if you were to push a little bit, you may discover that my reasons aren't really good

reasons. They're really just excuses. So excuses get passed off as reasons, and excuses easily

become in the real world, because all of us have some becausees that we habitually hide behind

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