Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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This week, we are headed in the exact opposite direction of what we covered last Monday.

Last week, the focus was on our past.

If you could send a letter to a younger version of yourself, would you do it?

And if so, what would it say?

This week, we will turn our attention to the future, sending a message forward, except this time

it is not addressed to you. It is addressed to the people that you love. I'll tell you now,

today might be a little tough for me. To help drive home the legacy we leave for the people that we

love, I will be sharing with you three phone calls

that I received in my life and will never forget. Three times when someone died and placed a message

in my heart and in the hearts of others that is still there today. Ultimately, the goal is for you to consider the letter

you will be leaving with the people you love when you're gone from this life, because they

won't just read it once. It will likely reside in their hearts as long as they live.

So we've got some things to dig into on that front, but first of all, I need to take you

back to last week. I mentioned to you at the end of that episode that I would be having a Bible

study at my home with a group of new Christians, men who are in the rehab mission at Triumph

Village in Tyler, Texas. All of these men have stories in their past that would shake you

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