It is already time for our weekly pep talk. Are you ready for it? This is a five minute little

mini podcast we do on Sundays. Hopefully help you through the Sunday scaries. Give us something

positive to think about going into your week. You may listen to this before you know you go to

bed on Sunday night. There's anytime any sudden positive. You know it's here. Five minutes or less.

Every time we do one of these with my mom and it's up next.

Today I want to share a quote with you from Desmond Tutu who was an amazing Anglican priest

from South Africa that I have loved and admired for so many years who died a few years back.

But his quote is discovering more joy does not, I'm sorry to say, save us from the inevitability

of hardships and heart breaks. Yet as we discover more joy we can face suffering in a way

than in nobles rather than in bitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heart

break without being broken. I want you to think about that this week and to think about the hardships

and the heart breaks it that you've been through in your life and how in retrospect you can see

that perhaps the work and the blessings that came to you through those times have really enriched

your life and brought you joy. The one that stands out most for me and you all have heard me talk

about this so many times but it was truly the death of my mother when I was 17 years old.

I was in such denial that she was dying because I couldn't accept the fact that she would no

longer be here with me. That was so hard and I truly lived in denial. I don't remember so much

about that time around her death. I don't remember her funeral service. I don't remember her burial.

I just don't remember because it was so painful that I have blocked it from my memory even at 70

years old. But what I do know was that in my 30s when I started therapy I started addressing

the loss of my mother. Now mind you this is you know 20 years later not quite 20 years maybe 15

years later after my mother had died but that was the first time that I was really able to address

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