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Happy Tuesday.

And I guess I should also say happy New Year.

It's my first week back at work.

So I haven't talked to you in a little while.

But I am excited to be back.

And this is the fifth thing.

It's the bonus episode to the Four Things podcast where

you send in emails to me, whether it's a question or encouraging thought or just something

you want to share with others. And I read four of them every Tuesday. I always start this

episode off with a quote though. And this one is from Henry Nowan,

and my pastor, Matt Smallbone, shared this in his sermon this last Sunday, and I thought

it was simple and awesome.

And I wrote it down real quick because I thought you needed to hear it.

Here it is, joy does not simply happen to us.

We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day again

that's henry now and it takes work for joy just like gratitude we talk about joy and gratitude a lot here

on the podcast and both of those things take work and there's nothing wrong with that some of you

might be thinking well i, I don't know.

It doesn't seem like joy or gratitude should be that hard or take that much work, but it is something

that you have to practice and choose and be intentional about every day. You know, it makes me think

of the Mr. Rogers movie that I watched this last weekend. It's called A Beautiful

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