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The Time we spent with People Special Guest Nick L · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin. This is Ariel Santana. Can you believe
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  I'm seven years old already?
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  I'm old enough now to introduce my dad.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, your host, my dad, Angel Santana.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin. Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a while.
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  It's an honor to be introduced a powerful new voice joining Have Faith,
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  Let It Begin family because he's been here many times before.
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  Please welcome Nick. And by the way, he will become the new host of an upcoming
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  podcast, Fulfilling God's Purpose.
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  That is coming soon. We don't have a start date yet, but he will officially
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  be on Have Faith That It Begin from time to time, giving you some insights.
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  So you're going to get a sneak peek as Nick brings a heart for ministry,
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  a passion for spiritual growth, and a gift for connecting real life experiences
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  with timeless truth of scripture.
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  His mission is simple yet profound. So to
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  help listeners discover and embrace and walk boldly in a new purpose of God's
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  place within them We're excited and blessed to welcome him to our community
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  Fulfilling God's Purpose with Nick is coming soon And he is going to have his
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  own Gmail account for that I don't want to steal his thunder,
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  but without further ado This is now the Nick Show for the next episode here
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  He's going to take it over Nick,
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  the floor is yours, my friend Thank you, Angel.
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  And it's always good to be here and talk to your Have Faith,
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  Let It Begin audience. So my...
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  My intention is to really kind of talk about, it's kind of related to what you
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  also do, is to talk about the everyday occurrences, our everyday lives,
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  and how we get through the day, and relate it to Scripture, how God wants us
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  to live our life, how he wants us to have the interactions with one another.
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  So with that being said, I actually had planned a different episode for today,
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  but it's something that we'll put off for the next time.
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  But I wanted to talk about the time that we spend with the people who we come in contact with.
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  You know, our significant others, our family, our colleagues who we work with.
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  And you can even add strangers who we've never even come across before.
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  When we have these interactions, we should live in the moment and not put it off.
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  And what I mean by that is, you know, if you're speaking to someone,
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  someone in your family, or if they're speaking to you, let's do it that way.
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  If they're speaking to you and maybe telling you about their day or they have
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  a question or they want to start a conversation with something that's on their
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  mind and you're involved in something else at the time,
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  like you're either texting something or you're watching something on TV and
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  you say, well, can I just finish this or can I just watch the show?
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  Or, you know, maybe tomorrow morning, I'll have some time tomorrow morning.
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  Why don't we, you know, just sit down and we'll be able to talk. Don't do that.
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  Don't do that. Live for the moment. Stop everything that you're doing,
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  if possible, and take care of what the present brings.
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  And I'm going to relate that to Scripture now, because that's the intention
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  to try to do everything that we talk about, try to relate it to Scripture.
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  In Matthew 24, 42 to 44. and I'm certain that everyone in your audience,
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  Angel, has heard this before.
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  Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day or what hour the Lord will come.
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  But understand this, if the owner of the house had known at what time of night
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  the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
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  So we don't know when our time is going to come. It could be five minutes from now.
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  It could be five days from now. It could be five years from now.
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  Live your life as if, you know, it's short term. You never know.
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  So pay attention to things like that. Pay attention to people who want to connect with you.
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  You know, and just make sure you make time. Time as current as possible.
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  We should never know when your day is going to come.
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  You know, everyone, I'm sure everyone knows that you and I work together.
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  And, you know, we interact with between, you know, the both of us between 200 and 300 people a day.
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  And I know that as far as I'm concerned
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  when I'm coming out of my car walking into
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  the building I'm saying to myself God give
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  me the grace to get through the day today just give me the grace and the tools
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  to get through the day today because some of the some of the people we interact
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  with are pretty tough and when you when you're going through it you just feel
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  like you know ending the conversation,
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  hanging the phone up, but you don't.
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  We try to help them as much as we possibly can and treat them as if we're the
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  only person that we have to talk to all day long.
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  Meanwhile, there's another 200 or 300 people yet to go.
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  We want to make sure that they feel that they're being taken care of at that moment. So,
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  So live your life that way. Live your life and pay attention to things like that.
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  Don't put people off. Don't make them feel that they're not important because
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  you may regret it. You may regret it.
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  And don't forget, at the end of the day, we're living here building a resume,
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  building a resume from the day when we're going to be judged.
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  And the Lord is a fair judge, but he's going to look at everything.
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  So just keep that in mind of how you live your life.
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  And towards that end, let me tell
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  you a little something that I'm going to change in my life a little bit.
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  And I challenge your audience to think about it and see if it works for them.
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  Starting this Sunday, Sunday is the Lord's day of rest.
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  So I'm going off media on Sundays.
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  I will not reply or even look at text messages.
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  I'll have my phone with me. If something comes up and something is emergent, I will take a phone call.
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  I will answer my phone, but I will not go on the internet. I will not text anyone.
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  That time is going to be left for my family and friends or whatever.
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  So I'm going to try to make that time on a Sunday, which is the Lord's day.
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  He rested on the seventh day.
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  And I'm going to try to revitalize my life that way. So...
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  I think everyone should think about it, maybe give it a try and see if it works for you.
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  So any thoughts, Angel? Well, first of all, I want to thank you,
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  Nick, for the powerful reminder. I do have some thoughts. Here at Half Faith, I'm going to begin.
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  We couldn't agree more with what you said. Life is full of distractions,
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  but the moments we share with people around us are families, right?
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  They are our families, they are our coworkers. They're even the strangers that God places in our path.
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  Even like for example you're the dog in the background
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  right my dog right now is barking because he doesn't
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  know if my wife is coming home he doesn't know if a stranger's there
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  just like animals have instincts we too have instincts but one of the things
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  that we have to incorporate is the words that challenge us to slow down to be
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  present and to treasure of the conversations that can so easily slip through our fingers.
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  And this is exactly the kind of encouragement that our community needs.
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  So I'm going to ask you this.
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  You're going to go ahead and challenge others, right?
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  Like you're going to, this is one thing you want to do. You're going to come
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  off social media on Sundays.
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  You want to give basically all to God, eliminate all the distractions.
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  So you're going to call to a live to be live
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  not to be live in social media but live in the eyes and the calling of god which
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  is i think they also known it as listening deeply i've heard it put that way
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  correct so what if you know let's keep this moving here a little bit what what.
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  What got you to making that decision? What was the one thing that said,
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  you know what, I'm going to try this?
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  The Sunday thing? Yeah.
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  Well, the reason I decided to do that is because it's a hectic life.
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  I mean, this week, I actually started out of this week because my work schedule
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  was very hectic this week. It was very erratic.
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  So I had all kinds of shifts. I was working in the morning, working in the middle
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  of the afternoon, working late afternoon into the night.
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  And I hardly saw my family at all for four days, really, because,
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  you know, they're on different schedules than I am.
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  And, you know, so, you know, it bothered me.
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  It bothered me not being able to interact with them.
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  And I felt like a loss. You know, I think.
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  How do I make the time? How do I make the time when I do have off?
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  How do I make the time to spend more time with them, to pay more attention to them?
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  And I came up with this idea. And that's why you're going to do well,
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  Nick, because you're...
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  You're following what God's message was. And, you know, just when you think
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  you're going in one direction, he shifts you and says, wait a minute,
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  this is the message that you need to do.
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  So whatever message that you
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  decided to do previously, we're going to eventually put you on and do it.
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  But something intervened and God wanted you to say this because it could be
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  one individual right now that is dealing with that in addition to you.
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  And for that, we're grateful for your heart, heart, you know,
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  message, heartful message and excited for the impact that you're going to be
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  doing in your podcasting days.
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  So I think the best way to end today's episode is to start off by saying,
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  thank you for being honest about what you're going through in your life.
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  Thank you for sharing that your work schedule affected your ability to interact with your family,
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  which made you feel a little bit outside are outside looking into this fishbowl, so to speak.
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  So, you know, I know, and you know that I know, and that you know,
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  that I know that, you know, I know that our work schedules are crazy,
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  but it's not long-term, right?
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  It's short-term. And we know that we all have to pay our dues.
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  I'm sure that what you put out will come to you in, you know, tenfold.
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  So thank you for that. Let's close out in a prayer.
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  Heavenly Father, there are many of us right now that may be dealing with the same situations.
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  And even if it's not a crazy work schedule, maybe you're dealing with the fact
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  that you have the same work schedule.
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  You both get home at the same time and you're both trying to unwind,
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  but you don't realize that you can do that together or even take a few minutes
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  to unwind and meet up at the dinner table and say, hey, how was your day?
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  And sometimes when you ask those questions.
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  The other person may have had a bad day and your response for yourself may be
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  put off for a little while because your intention is really to make sure that
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  you let them unwind and release all the tension.
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  In return, you'll have your moment where you can share.
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  So Lord, we ask you to be with these people, especially during the difficult
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  times of the holiday season.
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  And we thank Nick for coming in and humbling himself and sharing with us what
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  is happening in his life.
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  We pray this unto you in the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit.
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  In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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  Thank you, Nick, for being here. I'm excited for you to join our community.
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  I'm excited for you to be on our show more.
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  And I'm looking forward to having you on for another episode.
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  And they're going to get to know you more.
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  And now you have a new email address.
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  If they want to comment on this episode, where can they reach out to you? I do.
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  I do. And I would appreciate people, you know, give me their comments.
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  But if it's negative, that's fine, too.
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  I just like to hear what people think about it.
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  My email address would be F as in Frank, F-G as in God, P as in Peter.
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  So FGP with Nick at gmail.com. All right.
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  That's FGP with Nick at gmail.com. Don't worry.
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  We're going to put that in the description so that when you go into our synopsis,
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  it'll be there. You can click on that, tap it with your fingers.
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  And we are encouraging everyone to not respond to Have Faith Let It Begin.
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  From this episode, we want you to have all of the feedback.
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  Even if it's about me, you can send it to Nick. He'll let me know,
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  but let's flood Nick with his email and give him the feedback that he wants
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  so that he can begin to build his channel,
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  to begin his journey, and to allow all of us to feel safe and comfortable in
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  the eyes of our Heavenly Father.
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  Nick, as always, it's a pleasure, and hopefully we'll have easier days before it work.
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  I think that you gave me an idea. The next episode I'd like to do with you in
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  addition to the one you were going to do, let's do an episode about what we
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  do in our work environment and how we.
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  Just try to overcome all the negativity that comes our way, even though we know
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  it's not truly meant to hit us.
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  It's just people that are dealing with a lot of things.
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  We'll get into that and make it work better, but let's do that.
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  Great idea. All right. Everybody have a good day. Merry Christmas.
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  I'll let Nick close us out.
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  And remember, have faith, let it begin.
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  Take care. And I can't wait to hear what his tagline is going to be with his
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  show. He's going to work on that one. Take care, guys. Have a good one.