Welcome to Season 5 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I'm still your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.

The program continues to be sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John is a good friend, and he's helped me and my family in everything

from stock and mutual fund investing to annuities, life insurance, and retirement planning.

I certainly commend him to you if you have needs in any of those areas. You can reach him

at 205-326-7364. Thank you again for your ongoing encouragement and support. Let's get started.

Hey, thanks for joining today. I want to say right out of the box that today's episode is not about body weight, diet, exercise, any of that. I think maybe there could be

some principal application to such things, but today's quote comes from a short video that a

professor used in a speech. I'll tell you all about it in just a minute. Firstly, though, I just

want to take a minute and reference back to last week's episode and

thank everyone who reached out with encouraging words and shared with me how those simple

ideas were helpful to them.

I only mention that because I think today's content unintentionally really is very much connected

to those things.

So if you listened last week, I hope that today is a nice follow-up to help you move forward in it.

If you did not catch last week's episode, just let him.

Then check out what we're doing today.

If this is something that's important to you, you may want to go catch that because I think it can help.

Just by way of reminder, we talked about

three categories of people that you will experience in your life. There are those who do not like you,

who do not want to be a support to you, maybe they're entirely focused on themselves. There are

others who do like you, who do want to be in a healthy, godly relationship with you, and then of course there is

God himself who loves you unconditionally. You have a part in each one of those categories. If it is

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