I mean, suffice it to say, I told all that to my confessor,

I told all that to my spiritual director.

So maybe suffice it to say and just tell y'all that

I have found that the Christian life is not difficult.

I have found that it is impossible.

Hi, my name's Fr. Mike Schmitz

and this is the center of presents.

So I grew up as a swimmer.

Like I grew up competitively swimming ever since I was like

six years old, my whole family were swimmers

and it was just something that we did.

I was not very good right away.

It took me a really long time to get remotely decent

but I've always been captivated by like feats of swimming daring

or feats of swimming like incredible feats of swimming.

I was trying to say like someone who is you know

swim across the English channel or someone who has

swim across you know from Cuba all the way to the United States.

I think that's been I think that's happened.

I know yeah, that thing is something I've that's happened.

But years ago, I remember hearing about this woman

in Vicki Keith.

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