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and get 15% off your first order today. Really, we are a sum of many parts. There are lots of parts of us and that sum equals a very, very unique

individual that when all your parts are tied up together, there's nobody else on

earth like you and I know a lot of us heard that when we were growing up as some

like motivational speech about ourselves that we felt special and I I definitely think a

lot of us feel a little too special about ourselves so I'm not suggesting we're the center of any universe. However, we are put on purpose on this earth by God for great purposes.

And when you think about that that he uniquely placed you and made you,

doesn't that make you curious of for what? For what purposes? And I think what we've been also

conditioned to think that I hope this season is fighting in you is that there is one purpose for you just one and that's not true I don't know where we got that the reality is as we've talked about there will be several different times and callings in your life that

your gifts your passions your threads show up and what this is hopefully doing

for you is giving you a framework to make decisions.

We're all pretty familiar with the grief cycle,

like the five points of grief, denial,

and anger, and status and all the different things.

Well, maybe about a decade ago,

they added this sixth step of the grieving process and it was living a life of meaning it was taking all the pain that you've been in this

bad me cycle yeah right and it's if you look at the chart, it's like the grief cycle, it's circle and then there's like a little cleft off the side because it it kind of ejects you out of the grief cycle when you're in a really healthy place around it and gives you meaning and purpose and that comes from taking all the pain that you've been through and being able to reach back and say, oh me too, let me show you how, let me show you how to make it a little bit easier let me show you how to sit in the pain and not let it crush you and I think that for many women who were just like man am I ever gonna get over this like many men too

have I ever gonna get over this is it is this gonna consume you for the rest of my life

I think the real question that we should be asking is how can God use this?

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