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Speaking of which, thank you again for being here with me.

Let's get started.

Welcome back. I'm so thankful that you're listening today.

I hope your week has started well and you're incredibly optimistic.

And as the title of the

episode suggests to give you something wonderful to think about, I hope you have a joyful week of

praying for failure. Okay, that's probably going to need some explanation and the only way I can do it is by telling you about an

illustration that I just kind of randomly came up with a couple of

days ago. It's probably a little bit half-baked, but I hope that the takeaways are clear,

and it affects the way that you pray. If this brief illustration does not work for you,

it's because it's not that great. Also, I remember learning back when I was younger from my mentor,

Steve Fontno, that illustrations

merely illustrate. They don't prove anything. So don't dig too deeply, but follow along with the

way my brain works for a few minutes, and let's see if we can think up some things together.

Here's the situation. I was up here a couple of days ago. I was recording an episode. I can sit

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