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Here I want to read to you. I want to start today by reading to you out of the book.

It's page 192 and it says this, so many of our problems come when imperfect people

try to act as if they have it all together.

We have all been there and what's the result?

We hide behind images we create of happy, clean, impressive lives.

We are exhausted because if you create an image to hide behind you'll have to spend all your energy holding it up

Here's the freedom guys

We do not have to hide it is my favorite thing about Christianity. I'm telling you, there isn't

a better storyline than I can be in perfect because I have a God who makes me perfect. It's so great,

because we all want to be perfect and we all want to impress people and we all want a storyline where we are the hero but the truth is

We're not and we deep down know it and I cannot tell you how free my life has become as I have just

started to laugh at myself now I'm not saying I don't hate my sin I am always

working on that and trying to name that and find it and bring it to the light and not live in it, right?

I'm working on that. However, I live pretty free because I know I can do that and I do do that regularly, right?

Like that's something I do without much thought because I just know people that know me and that love me

are going to bring the gospel to the dark places in my life. Now some of you are

thinking I appreciate that Jenny your dark places probably aren't as dark as

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