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Stories with the Book Corner: When God Made You · St. Paul Podcast

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, and welcome to Stories with the Book Corner.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Jessica Taylor, Director of Communication at St.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Paul Lutheran Church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's story is about how special and unique each of you really are.
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  SPEAKER_00: This book reminds us that God made you exactly the way you're meant to be, with gifts and talents that only you have.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: So sit back, relax, and listen as we celebrate what makes you wonderful.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Turn on your listening ears and enjoy today's story.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Today's book is When God Made You by Matthew Paul Turner, illustrated by David Catrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: You, you, when God made you, God made you all shiny and new.
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  SPEAKER_01: An incredible you, a you all your own, a you unlike anyone else ever known.
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  SPEAKER_01: An exclusive design, one God refined, you're a perfectly crafted one of a kind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cause when God made you, somehow God knew that the world needed someone exactly like you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You, you, God thinks about you.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: God was thinking of you long before your debut.
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  SPEAKER_01: From the very beginning, amid history and time, you, little one, never left God's mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: God imagined your eyes, your head shape and size, and knew what you'd look like when you felt surprised.
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  SPEAKER_01: God pictured your nose and all ten of your toes, the sound of your voice.
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  SPEAKER_01: God had it composed.
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  SPEAKER_01: The lines of your hands, your hair, every strand.
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  SPEAKER_01: God knew every detail, like it was all planned.
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  SPEAKER_01: Out of billions of faces from cultures, all races, people God made from all different places.
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  SPEAKER_01: God knew your name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your picture is framed.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's family without you would not be the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because when God made you, this much is true.
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  SPEAKER_01: The world got to meet who God already knew.
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  SPEAKER_01: You, you, when God sees you, God delights in what is and sees only what's true.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: That you, yes, you, in all of your glory, bring color and rhythm and rhyme to God's story.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: So be you, fully you, a show-stopping review.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Live your life in full color, every tint, every hue.
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  SPEAKER_01: Discover, explore, have faith, but love more, and learn and relearn all that God made you for.
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  SPEAKER_01: Use your talents and passions, those gifts God has fashioned.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think up ideas and then put them in action.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because God loves you creating your true self displaying when light on the inside through art is portraying, when you make believe the stories conceived, the heroics, the magic, those tricks up your sleeve.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you dance alone, spinning like a cyclone, being whoever, whatever, in a world all your own.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: God smiles, and here's why.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: In the spark of your eye, a familiar reflection shines bright from inside.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: Because when God made you and the world ooed and odd, in heaven they called you an image of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: You when God dreams about you, God dreams about all that in you will be true.
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  SPEAKER_01: That you, God's you, will be hopeful and kind, a giver who lives with all heart, soul, and mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: A dreamer who dreams in big and small themes, one who keeps dreaming in journeys upstream, a mover, a shaker, a lover of nature, a builder of bridges, you, the peacemaker, a you who views others as sisters and brothers, and lives by three words love one another, a confident you, strong and brave too.
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  SPEAKER_01: You being you is God's dream coming true.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cause when God made you, all of heaven was beaming.
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  SPEAKER_01: Over you, God was smiling and already dreaming.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for tuning in to Stories with the Book Corner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Join in the fun every Tuesday at eleven AM at St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul, where a staff member or volunteer shares a story, followed by time for kids to play and parents to connect.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you back here next week.