Hello, welcome back for season two of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris

Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies to help you build stronger

relationships, deepen your faith, and just get the most out of your life. Thank you for

joining. Let's get started. Welcome back to the program. I'm so glad you're here. Today I want to talk to

you about a literal storage building that is located in our backyard.

It's been back there for about four years.

I don't know the exact size of it.

Maybe it's a 10 by 6 or something like that.

But I know this much.

It was completely full. We had been piling things into that storage building

that shed for the entire four years, and as of recently, you couldn't even get inside.

In fact, whenever you would open the door, things would fall out at your feet.

I couldn't see anything in the back half. You've probably

had a experience similar to this. We just start piling things in, things that we feel like we can't get

rid of, and so we pile it back in the shed out back. So Summer and I decided that we would get the

kids together and go out and clean out the storage shed.

I have to tell you, we made that decision a year ago, and we never did it.

But just yesterday, we finally gave it a go.

I had a feeling right off the bat that we would learn some things that applied to our present situation.

I had this idea that something about this storage shed was a metaphor for our lives, and I know

at least for us it has been, and I want to try to make a few connections for you as well.

In fact, you may already know where this is going. The storage shed represents your life

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