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Hi everyone. Happy Sunday. I just thought I would hop on here really quickly to say hi

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and share kind of a few God moments for me the last few weeks. I don't know, it's just

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been so good the last few weeks, just realizing that everything's okay all over again, you

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know, and then experiencing it, you know, like the hard part of choosing it and then

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just experiencing it. And so I just wanted to share a few things that we've experienced

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the last few weeks just by means of encouragement, I guess, and just knowing that this place

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in God truly does exist because if you would have told me two years ago that my life looks

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like this or that my relationship with the Lord looks like this, I wouldn't have believed

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you that this kind of life can exist, this side of heaven. And so just as a means of

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encouragement for any of you who might be frustrated by the process or might be frustrated

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with yourselves, feeling like you're just the odd one out that's not going to get it

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and that, you know, it's just this formula that doesn't, that has one kind of like clause

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in it and that clause applies to you and you're just afraid that you don't get it,

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that I just wanted to share just kind of my journey the last few weeks just as a way to

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encourage anyone because if I can live this life, then truly anyone can because I am not

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one of those people that understand and get things easily on an academic level or really

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understand things in school. Like I was never one of those kids that was just really smart

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and really took off and was like, oh, well, if you can do this, well, then I'm going to

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be able to do this and all these things. I was very held back, a very fearful child,

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and so just to be able to live this life and work it out is truly, you know, anyone can

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with a life of this level. So anyway, we are currently in Maine and I'm going to see if

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I can turn my camera off because sitting here on the last evening of the year and everything

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is so still and I just want to encourage you, let's just set the record for something still.

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Let's just make the entry count so that you all can just get a glimpse of the epic view

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of Maine. That's just the key. Anyway, so one of the stories this week, we came down here,

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we were originally going to be down here for a day longer than what we are now, so we were

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going to go home on Tuesday and then suddenly came up and now we have to go home on Monday

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and so originally when I found out that it was kind of like, almost like a double booking

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situation, there was an event that I had to be at on Tuesday and I told Josh, I'm like,

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I should have known that this event was coming up on Tuesday and I did know it, I just had

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no idea that our dates were overlapping. So he was like, oh, you know, no big deal, like

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we'll just pack the day early. So we're packing up a day early and in my mind I was like,

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we booked the Airbnb, we can't get a refund for the night, you know, the night that we're

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going home early, and in my mind I was like, you know, darn it, I should have known better,

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like we should not book the Airbnb another day, like we're going to have to pay another,

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you know, however much it is a night. I'm like, that's going to be wasted, like it's

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going to be sitting open, or it's going to be sitting empty and it's because of me that

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we wasted all this money for the night that we're not going to be able to stay here.

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And, you know, this was a few weeks ago, I was just like wrestling with it and just

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beating myself up about it, and somehow I'm like, you know what, I'm not in, we're not

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in line financially, whether, you know, whether that means that we actually have money in

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the bank account or not, but because of who we are, we are not working in any way. And

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so I just kind of walked myself through this in like three seconds and I'm like, whoa,

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like, I'm not, I'm not subject to any kind of, you know, including this. So, if it just

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so happened that we overbooked, then there's that time that there's literally nothing I

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can do about it, so I just was like, what? There's no point in getting upset about it,

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there's no point in beating myself up that we are going to waste a lot of money.

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$100 for a night, I was like, we did it.

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So anyway, the crazy thing is that we invited people to come down here with us,

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just like we invited them to be our guests here for a few nights.

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So they came and spent, I think, two, it was two nights,

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and we totally, like, we invited them to come as a guest,

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not expecting that they would come and, like, pay their share right anyways.

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And so on the evening that they left, the gentleman that was here,

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he put down some money, and he was like,

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he just really appreciates that we would invite them,

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and put down money for helping, like, just as a, like,

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kind of a monetary gesture of how much it meant to them

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that we would invite them to come up here and spend time with us.

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And would you believe that it covered the cost of their meeting

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for the night that they went?

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And then they almost dove down to the dollar.

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It's not just barely enough to cover this, and it took kind of a minute.

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And I was just like, oh, my goodness.

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Like, here it is all over again.

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Like, it is all over again.

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And I just don't like to be here and allow myself to realize that

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that we overbooked the Airbnb and all this stuff,

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but that literally, like, it was, yeah, the liberty,

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it was almost double what we would have paid for the night.

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And so it's just like, I mean, it's not just getting by, you know,

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but it's abundance.

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And anyway, it was just one of those moments where I was just like,

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God, how are you this good?

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How do you see me to this extent?

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And then another quick, really random story.

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Last week, so we got our gym, or we got our garage floor redone.

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It was old cracked cement, and we wanted to put, like, a coating down

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so that we can kind of have, like, a gym out there

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and have a nice floor for the kids to ride their bikes and stuff on.

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Anyway, we had got, like, an estimate from one guy,

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and we were just like, somebody just doesn't sit right.

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He was the same guy that did our cement outback,

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and we're like, well, just give us an estimate.

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But it just didn't sit right.

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And we were like, well, why is this not feeling right?

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This is just so odd.

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And so I was driving down the road one day,

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and I see this big, huge box trailer outside the road,

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and it was, like, it said absolute epoxy.

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And I'm like, that's it?

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That's who I'm supposed to get to do our garage?

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And I had no idea.

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I didn't know this guy.

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I had no idea who he was or, like, any of his work or nothing.

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And I was like, okay, I'm just going to, like, just sit in bed

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and hope that I call Josh right now.

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Because Josh was kind of the one hitting up the, you know, the gym.

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He was, like, the one contacting people or hitting up the floor for the gym.

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He pays us back for all of the muscle and everything.

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Yes.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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That's amazing.

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So, anyway, he – Josh is the one, like, hitting up all the garage stuff.

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And I'm just sharing this because this is literally, like, how our lives are now.

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Like, since rest.

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These are things that just randomly happen to us.

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And, I mean, not randomly.

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I mean, this is literally the life that we get to experience with the Lord.

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And so I saw the box, like, the box show.

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I'm like, that's the guy that we've got to work with.

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That's the guy.

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And so I just let it sit up.

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And if I think about it, I might talk to Josh about it later.

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And a few hours later, I get a notification, like, we have shared Google Maps

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or shared Google Calendar on our phone,

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and I get a notification that said epoxy estimate.

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Okay, that's really strange.

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I went – I came home and later, using my ask Josh, I'm like, hey, I saw that, you know,

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we have that estimate for the garage floor.

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I'm like, do you know, do you remember the name of the company that you got?

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And he was like, yeah.

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I was like, I was driving down the road and I saw this big box trailer called Absolute Epoxy.

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And I was like, I knew that that's the guy that's supposed to get to our garage.

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And I'm like, I'm not making this up.

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And I was like, I literally had the same experience.

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I drove past the box trailer that said Absolute Epoxy.

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I'm like, I know that that's the guy that's supposed to get our garage from.

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And he was like, what?

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I was like, that's so crazy.

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So anyway, long story short, he was – ended up being like a much more affordable option.

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But the quality that he did the garage with, the garage floor with, was insane.

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It came in three days all by himself and had the whole entire garage floor done.

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And it turns out that the other company that we had worked with previously,

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quality wasn't near what we had hoped for, uh, paid for, because, uh, you know, I don't

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know what the reasons were, but we were just not happy with the quality that we had paid

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for the previous company to do our Cnet work, so all that to say, like, if there was no

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rhyme or reason, I didn't need to load up all these companies and rep all these companies

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and be like, you know, we're, we're spending a good amount to get our craft store done,

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like, we should know what we're doing, we need to know that we're gonna put our money

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into the right place, you know, make sure that we're doing the right thing, you know,

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like, we just need to be happy.

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The guy who came out earlier came out and gave us an estimate, and he was the same guy

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that came out and, like, did the job, and everything was amazing.

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We made an amazing company, so we were so excited about it, like, we were so inspired

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about it.

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So anyway, I just wanted to share those two stories that happened in the last two weeks

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because it's just things like that where you're just like, God, this is you, like,

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this is the life that we experience with you, and it's so, so incredibly good.

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Um, so anyway, I, this is gonna be really long, and it's starting to get cold as the

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sun is setting, um, but I just wanted to hop on and share these things as a means of encouragement

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that this is what, this is, this is what life is for, and that you guys are in it, like,

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you guys are literally doing it.

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You are doing it, and that there's nothing, there's nothing that you guys are doing wrong,

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or there's nothing that is wrong with you all.

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Like, I remember going through it a couple years ago, like, I am through this, um, but

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I just, I have loved watching all of your journeys so far, and reading all the, um,

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you know, all the testimonies and stuff like that, but just wanted to hop on here and just

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share that this life is possible, and that the degree that we accept God's love is the

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degree that we, to which we experience Him, or at least that's how it's been for me and

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on my journey.

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But it's receding, it's receding just that so hard because we don't feel like we're part

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of it.

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Um, so anyway, I hope you all are having a wonderful Saturday, and I will talk to you

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later.

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Bye.