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Welcome back to the podcast.

I'm so thankful that you're listening today.

It means a great deal to me.

This journey, seven, eight years of learning and applying and sharing is a great joy in my life,

and I hope that you find it beneficial to you. Today, our focus will be in the book of

Proverbs. As beautiful and timeless and immediately applicable as the Proverbs are, I don't know that we've

given it a ton of attention over the three or four hundred episodes, occasionally one quoted

here or there. Today, I want to dig in a little bit, tell you about that book, and tackle

one specific theme that permeates the book. There are a handful of those, but one of them

is the power of words. And most vitally, the good you can do with your words when you learn how to

wait. W-A-I-T. Before we get into that specific, let me tell you a little bit about a recent study that we're

going through at the Lindell congregation. We are studying the book of Proverbs. We're laying it out in 10

lessons, and it has been so rich. I've read it, you've read it, I've got markings all over it,

but going back through it this time, we've had some exercises

and projects along the way. It's never been so rich, probably because I've never been 47 before,

and had kids the age that they are, and lived through as many things, we're always learning and

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