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Transformation is progressive.

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There's the word progress.

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Scripture says we are a work in progress.

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And it's beautiful.

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We're going from glory to glory.

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I love that.

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We're being changed in the image of God.

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Christ in me, the hope of glory.

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We're being shifted into the beautiful person

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we were intended to be, created that's in our heart,

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that got lost with lie-based thinking,

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that got lost with fear-based thinking.

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And so it's progress.

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It's moving in the direction of, not perfection,

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not that any of us have arrived, myself included.

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So it's important to understand

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that the goal is just continuous progress.

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It is not arriving.

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If you have this mentality that life is about,

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you know, it's like vacation, right?

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It's about getting there.

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You gotta enjoy the journey.

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I like to go a lot to Tahoe, frequently.

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If I just focus on once I'm right there on the lake,

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which is a beautiful, wonderful thing,

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I would miss the trees,

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the colors changing orange and yellow.

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I would miss the twists and the turns,

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the different types of trees.

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There are pine trees and there's the aspen trees

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and there's, you know, all of these things I would miss.

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And our life is the same way.

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It's very easy to wish away our life.

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It's very easy to just be waiting, you know,

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and you've probably seen that.

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It's like, when I graduate from college,

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then I'll be happy.

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This is the old thinking that we talked about earlier, right?

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And when I get married, then I'll be happy.

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When I have kids, then I'll,

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when the kids graduate, then I'll be happy.

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When I retire, then I'll be happy.

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When I, when I, when I, we just like wish away our life.

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But if we can instead step into the beautiful,

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divine progress that we're in,

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we can have more grace, more patience,

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more love, self-love.

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We treat ourselves pretty rough, okay?

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So progress, not perfection, okay?

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As it happens progressively.

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Paul had a very wise approach to that.

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We see it in scripture.

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It's important that both we and the clients understand,

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first of all, your past does not equal your future.

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Your past does not equal your future.

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It doesn't matter.

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The past is gone.

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It was a stepping stone.

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It was a lesson.

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It was something that you learned that didn't work.

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It was something that built your character.

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It's gone.

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It has nothing to do with your future.

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The past does not equal the future.

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The past is gone.

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It can't be changed.

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Help your clients when they start getting stuck back there

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to get back into the now, the miraculous,

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beautiful, amazing transformation potential.

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All potentiality is in the now.

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Infinite potentiality is in this moment.

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Yesterday's gone.

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Tomorrow's not here.

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That's why we call the present a present.