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01 03 2026 Reasons for Thanksgiving and Prayer · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, January three,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our new
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth christ in Philippians
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  Speaker 2: and Colossians. That's a mouthful, but I'm getting the hang
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  Speaker 2: of it. And our caption for today is Reasons for
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  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving and Prayer. Reasons for Thanksgiving and Prayer. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to just say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time. I'm asking you to please go over to
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  Speaker 2: Please please let us know where you are in the
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  Speaker 2: world at your Daily portion dot com. This is one
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  Speaker 2: of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for the Sabbath morning. Please teach us
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  Speaker 2: to serve you with everything we have and everything we
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  Speaker 2: are and live thanks God, not just give thanks, but
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  Speaker 2: live thanks. Let it, let it, let it overflow from
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  Speaker 2: our lives into other people's lives. That you have been
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  Speaker 2: so good to us, and help us to be faithful
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  Speaker 2: to you until Jesus comes. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and a man again. Live Thanks, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: So what I'm going to do, I'm moving my notes
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  Speaker 2: around the screen here is I'm going to take you
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  Speaker 2: into our life application guide. Some of you have just
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  Speaker 2: started with us, and you're like, well, what does he
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  Speaker 2: keep referencing this life application guide. I'll get to that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment and share just a little bit
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  Speaker 2: from that. But first we begin with with our memory text.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when we actually used to memorize the memory text?
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  Speaker 2: Who by show of hands like type of one in
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  Speaker 2: the chat. If you actually memorize the text. God gave
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  Speaker 2: his people an interesting way of remaining connected with him,
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  Speaker 2: and so he's given us a memory text. And it
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Philippians, chapter one and verse six. It reads,
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  Speaker 2: be confident of this very thing, what thing, brother Paul,
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  Speaker 2: that he who has begun a good world? You who's that?
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  Speaker 2: That would be Jesus. He started the work. He who
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  Speaker 2: began a good work in you, will complete it until
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  Speaker 2: when complete it, until the day of Jesus Christ, the
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  Speaker 2: second coming of Jesus Christ. So he started a good
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  Speaker 2: work in you. He's not going to leave you alone.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to leave you in a position where
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  Speaker 2: you can't continue, you know what I mean. Like sometimes
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  Speaker 2: people put us in a position where, like in Jamaica,
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  Speaker 2: they say they give you a basket to carry water.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they expect you to do some things and
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  Speaker 2: then don't give you the tools to complete it. We
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  Speaker 2: must not accept that. But in Christ, whatever he has started,
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  Speaker 2: has he started you with patience, give thanks for that.
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  Speaker 2: He will complete it until the end. Even when it
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  Speaker 2: gets sticky. People who are who get under your skin,
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  Speaker 2: they will manifest And that may cause you to feel impatient,
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  Speaker 2: except you yield your will to God. He's beginning and
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  Speaker 2: He's going to carry you through. Is he giving you
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  Speaker 2: the ability to be kind? Give thanks for that. He's
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  Speaker 2: giving you the ability to be generous. Give thanks for that.
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  Speaker 2: To overcome sickness and trials and temptations and that big
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  Speaker 2: word tribulations. I know, very similar words, but tribulations just
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  Speaker 2: sound so much heavier. Then give thanks for that. And
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  Speaker 2: so the lesson writer said that Paul quite intentionally begins
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  Speaker 2: his letters or epistles with words of greeting and thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: Here's another example in Colossians chapter one, verses two and three.
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  Speaker 2: Grace to you and peace from whom God, our Father,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to the
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  Speaker 2: God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for what
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  Speaker 2: so many different things, for so many things. So we,
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  Speaker 2: like Paul, have much for which to be thankful. We
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  Speaker 2: have experienced God's grace in profound ways. Continuing, the lesson
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  Speaker 2: writers quote ways that even angels can't comprehend. Angels had
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  Speaker 2: not been victorious I'm not quoting here, not victorious over
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  Speaker 2: smoking crack, like angels have not gotten victory over being
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  Speaker 2: addicted to pornography, like angels have not been addicted to
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  Speaker 2: God forbid abusing your spouse their spouse because they're not married,
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  Speaker 2: and they have not sinned in this regard. Like so
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  Speaker 2: the people who are being delivered from impatience, from pride,
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  Speaker 2: the people who are being delivered from thinking of themselves
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  Speaker 2: less than we should. When God has elevated us through
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  Speaker 2: the blood of Jesus Christ. Angels did not have to
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  Speaker 2: go through that, And so angels can even comprehend some
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  Speaker 2: of these ways that we give thanks. The same is
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  Speaker 2: true of God's gift of peace, which embraces harmony with
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  Speaker 2: God and the hope flowing from God's love. There's so
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  Speaker 2: much I could say, but now I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: into our life application guide. We haven't done that in
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  Speaker 2: a long time together, and so it is broken up.
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  Speaker 2: For those who don't know, you're going to get it
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  Speaker 2: after the Sabbath, Please go and get it after the Sabbath. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's broken up into four life application segments, Spiritual, personal relationship,
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  Speaker 2: and of course professional. So why don't we jump into professional.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's Sabbath, but we need to be preparing
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  Speaker 2: for when the six days that we labor okay, and
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  Speaker 2: so professional application doub you. So we have an acronym
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  Speaker 2: or a framework when so doub. What is important now
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  Speaker 2: starting your work day with a mindset of gratitude rather
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  Speaker 2: than stress and complaint. Oh my God, help us during
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  Speaker 2: knee sabbath hours to learn how to be grateful and
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  Speaker 2: stop the complaining. Always something about which to complain. There
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  Speaker 2: is always somebody who will get under your skin. There
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  Speaker 2: is always something that's not going right. There is always
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  Speaker 2: some kind of protocol or procedure that is not being followed.
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  Speaker 2: There is always somewhere that they should have communicate, communicated
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  Speaker 2: more effectively. There is always going to be someone who
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  Speaker 2: is leading in a poor mindset style, always something for
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  Speaker 2: which to be a complainer. But don't do that, like,
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  Speaker 2: don't do that. So we start our workday with a
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  Speaker 2: mindset of gratitude rather than stress or complain. Let's internalize
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  Speaker 2: this insight. Let's make it make more sense. How you
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  Speaker 2: begin sets the tone for how you proceed. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody needed to hear that. So during these Sabbath hours,
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  Speaker 2: while we don't have to meditate on the things of
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  Speaker 2: the world and what we do in the mundane things
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  Speaker 2: of life. Prepare your mind here with God. Paul's started
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  Speaker 2: his letters with thanksgiving, which framed everything else. He addressed
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  Speaker 2: when you begin your work day by acknowledging what is
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  Speaker 2: going well, rather than fixating on the problems, you approach
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  Speaker 2: challenges with a healthier perspective and greater resilience. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 2: what in the next best move before jumping into the
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  Speaker 2: tasks tomorrow morning, invest two minutes to write down three
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  Speaker 2: things you are grateful for in your work and let
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  Speaker 2: that gratitude shape your attitude for the day. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to actually do that before you jump into your
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  Speaker 2: tasks tomorrow. Right after the Sabbath this evening, I want
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  Speaker 2: you to just take a couple of minutes, invest a
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  Speaker 2: couple of minutes, write it down, jot it down three
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  Speaker 2: things that you're grateful for your workplace. What are they?
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  Speaker 2: And then go to God and say God, I'm thankful,
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful. Can I tell you that one of the
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  Speaker 2: most difficult times of my life, Well, I won't say
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  Speaker 2: when one of the most difficult times in my life
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  Speaker 2: in a work setting has set me up to do
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  Speaker 2: some things in a positive way that I would not
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  Speaker 2: have been equipped to do except that I went through
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  Speaker 2: those things for the few years that I did, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful and I hope you can learn to be
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  Speaker 2: grateful too. I know I rush some people into the work.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to run away from it. But give God thanks.
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  Speaker 2: As you have the privilege to do work, do it
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  Speaker 2: unto the Lord. Make it a great Sabbath, peace. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,