Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and I want to welcome you to the Mosaic Podcast.

I want to also bring into some exciting things that are happening here.

If you go to the Mosaic app, you will learn about our conference coming up this year,

about MSC's new album and their tour across the

country and you can learn how to connect and be more involved in mosaic in so many

different ways and by the way we now have the mosaic YouTube channel

and you can go access not only these talks but

other fresh and new materials are being created specifically for that

channel and so if you want to be connected in a richer and fuller way, not only being part of the

podcast, get to the moussaic out and get to the channel and we'll see you there.

So this week I was noticing some statistics that were coming out on different cities across America

and he gave us the list, the top 20 teams, they have the highest number of people leaving

their city and LA came out number two. So we have more people living Los Angeles

than any other city in America except for one. And that's not unusual for us.

We're usually in the top one or two.

Because people come to LA from all over the world.

They come to LA filled with hopes and dreams, aspirations, ambitions and and they're usually the best of the best from their

own town their own community their own city their own nation and they're

they're they're so certain that they're on a path toward their destiny.

But when you have 10,000 people who are certain that their destiny is the same one destiny that everyone's fighting for. You end up with so many people who are painfully

disappointed. So it doesn't surprise me that people are leaving a light because this happens

all the time. Now hopefully some people are leaving a life because they found a higher

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