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TD Jakes Sermons Can God Trust You With Trouble 1 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I'm done. I am not going to the country club
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  Speaker 1: and tell my friends at the golfing tournament that my
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend is pregnant with the Holy Ghost. I'm out. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just out. I'm just out. Whenever God does something you
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  Speaker 1: don't understand, you have a tendency to want to back out.
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  Speaker 1: But the real truth of the matter is life is
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  Speaker 1: designed to try your staying power. This is the Christmas season.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. But the first Christmas was
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  Speaker 1: not filled with shopping malls and shopping carts and long
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  Speaker 1: lines and coupons and getting on the Internet. It was
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  Speaker 1: filled with trouble and tests and trials. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you. Whether you're celebrating or frustrated. Can God
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  Speaker 1: trust you with trouble? Take a look at this. I
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  Speaker 1: almost entitled this message Mother Wit because I now realize
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  Speaker 1: that Mother Wit is the remaining nectar of truth that
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  Speaker 1: has survived through the struggles of life. Its essence and
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  Speaker 1: aroma permeates the soul of the student and stays with
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  Speaker 1: you even after your mother is gone because her wisdom
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  Speaker 1: is the nectar and the composite of what she learned
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  Speaker 1: through the adversity and the vicissitudes of life. You can't
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  Speaker 1: have mother wit at 15. You can't have mother wit
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  Speaker 1: at 20. You can't have mother wit at 30. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have mother wit at 35. Motherhood is what is left,
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  Speaker 1: what works out of what you try, your conclusion, what
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  Speaker 1: you come up with. And I almost call this motherhood.
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  Speaker 1: So my wife taught me a lesson. She didn't even
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  Speaker 1: know it. One of the problems that led to her surgery,
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  Speaker 1: she had a herniated disc in two different locations and
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  Speaker 1: the herniation had pressed against the nerve and her left
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  Speaker 1: arm and hand were not working properly, and she had
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  Speaker 1: lost all feeling and sensation in her extremities. She could
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  Speaker 1: move it a little bit, but she couldn't feel anything
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  Speaker 1: when she touched it, and she had problems moving it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a real problem. So we were praying about it.
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  Speaker 1: She went in. She had the surgery. All the kids come.
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  Speaker 1: We have the kind of family that when one of
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  Speaker 1: us is in trouble, everybody huddles. Yeah, we all huddle. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you jump on one of us right now, you
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  Speaker 1: really got to be awesome because everybody's going to dive
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  Speaker 1: in and ask what happened later because it's old school.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's out of style. It doesn't happen much now,
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  Speaker 1: but we huddle. We huddle. We attack things together. We
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  Speaker 1: survive things together. So when my wife came out of surgery,
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  Speaker 1: she went in. I prayed for her before she went
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  Speaker 1: in surgery. She came out of surgery. She's in the
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  Speaker 1: recovery room. She's In their intensive care. The anesthesiologist has
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  Speaker 1: just walked out. She's now coming out from under anesthesia.
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  Speaker 1: And she came out praising God. She came out thanking God.
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  Speaker 1: She came out glorifying God. And once she had gotten
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  Speaker 1: herself together. And she and I spent a few moments together.
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  Speaker 1: All the kids came around the bed. So all the
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  Speaker 1: kids and me are around the bed. And this was
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  Speaker 1: one of the life lessons I will never forget. I
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  Speaker 1: really cannot articulate it. Like she did. And all the
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  Speaker 1: children around the bed. And I'm around the bed. And
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  Speaker 1: my wife is weeping. And she's just thanking God that
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  Speaker 1: she's come through the surgery okay. And the children all
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  Speaker 1: gathered around the bed. And she reached out. And she
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  Speaker 1: started touching them. Just on the hand and in the face.
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  Speaker 1: She said, she's just touching them. Just touching all over them.
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  Speaker 1: And she was crying. She said, I can feel my
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  Speaker 1: children again. And every now and then we have this
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  Speaker 1: moment that I know it's a moment that I'll never
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  Speaker 1: forget the rest of my life. It's a teaching moment.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the sort of thing that most men would
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  Speaker 1: do had we regained consciousness. We would appreciate the support
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  Speaker 1: of the family and the friend. But my wife took
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  Speaker 1: it somewhere else. She was touching all the children. And
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  Speaker 1: I knew she was remembering touching them before and feeling
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  Speaker 1: them in her body. In a way, she went somewhere
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't go. And she was crying. She said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she said, I can feel my children. And the whole
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  Speaker 1: room was in tears. Because it was the kind of
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  Speaker 1: communication that requires no speech. Through the connectivity. that pre-existed birth,
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  Speaker 1: I can feel my children. Again, and I step back
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  Speaker 1: because this was a mother moment. You couldn't touch it.
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  Speaker 1: It was just somewhere else. I was just in awe
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  Speaker 1: at the bond. I got my little feel in though, but...
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  Speaker 1: Put my face out there too, feel me? Yeah. There
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  Speaker 1: are some times that I have a tendency as a
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  Speaker 1: man to be insensitive of certain things relating to femininity.
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  Speaker 1: And she'll have to educate me to the significance of
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  Speaker 1: a moment. She said, that's important to a woman because
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  Speaker 1: of so and so and so and so and so on.
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  Speaker 1: And then she becomes the teacher and I become the student.
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  Speaker 1: One of those things is the whole notion of giving birth.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm wanting to give birth. And the whole process
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  Speaker 1: is something that I see through a glass darkly. I
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  Speaker 1: have never wanted to be pregnant. The idea of something
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  Speaker 1: inside me living and kicking makes me sick. I just,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot see what would be wonderful about your stomach
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  Speaker 1: moving around like the exorcist inside of you. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a God thing, but she... She has to help me
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  Speaker 1: with that to understand why that would be wonderful and
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  Speaker 1: how your body changes and how your attitude changes and
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  Speaker 1: how there is a bonding that takes place and there's
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  Speaker 1: a loving that begins before birth. There is an excitement
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  Speaker 1: there that, you know, I was there when y'all was born.
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  Speaker 1: I was there. I was for you. Hoping you'd come
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  Speaker 1: out all right. I was cheering you on Listen to that.
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  Speaker 1: Here come another one. For those of you who don't
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  Speaker 1: know what that is, that's the machine that lets you
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  Speaker 1: know the contractions are coming. And I told everybody we
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  Speaker 1: were having a baby. You know how we do? We're
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  Speaker 1: having a baby. But it really wasn't true. She was
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  Speaker 1: having a baby. I was eating up the hospital food. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Expectations are everything. It's amazing when you have this expectation
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  Speaker 1: and it's an exciting moment. That's why I chose the
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Mary to teach today. Because she's having this girl moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to do a guy's rendition of a
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  Speaker 1: girl's moment. She's getting ready to get married. Curly stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all turn into somebody else when you get married. Ugly
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  Speaker 1: women look good when they get married. They get a glow.
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  Speaker 1: There's an effervescence that comes against them. They start flashing
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  Speaker 1: their engagement ring and rosebuds pop out on their cheeks
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  Speaker 1: and stardust gets in their eyes and they're running all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. Girl, I'm getting married to... She is
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  Speaker 1: espoused to Joseph, planning her wedding. It's been said if
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  Speaker 1: you want to make God laugh, tell him what you
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  Speaker 1: got planned. And in the process of planning for this
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  Speaker 1: special day with this special person, with your special friends,
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  Speaker 1: an interruption occurs. God will interrupt your plans. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: care how much money you spend on it, how long
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  Speaker 1: you've dreamed about it, how hard you've worked at it,
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  Speaker 1: how you've envisioned it. You've got everything set up and
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  Speaker 1: then it's going to be like this. And when I'm
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  Speaker 1: 22 and by the time I'm 28, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be here in about 36. I'm going to be right here.
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  Speaker 1: You've got it all framed up how it's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: He'll knock it all over the floor. Angel comes in
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  Speaker 1: and says, hell Mary, you've been highly favored amongst women.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. You've been highly favored. That's good news.
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  Speaker 1: It's wonderful. I'm favored. I see y'all shining. I got
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  Speaker 1: the favor. You know, the choir was singing in my favor. Oh, favor.
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  Speaker 1: Been highly favored. You should bring forth a son. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I plan that after we get married. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have a child. No, it's not going to happen when
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  Speaker 1: it's convenient. It's going to happen when it's crazy. I
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  Speaker 1: thought you said I was favored. Uh, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be like pregnant. The first woman with an unexplainable pregnancy.
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  Speaker 2: How?
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says she pondered these things in her heart.
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  Speaker 1: God says stuff that makes you think. He takes you
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  Speaker 1: through things that you don't talk about. You ponder them
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  Speaker 1: in your heart. Why did I come up the way
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  Speaker 1: I came up? Why at this stage in my life
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  Speaker 1: did I go through what I went through? Why are
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  Speaker 1: we relocating at this season in my life? Why after
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  Speaker 1: 20 years am I out of a job? Why did
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  Speaker 1: I lose? I'm the only one that's ever asked God why.
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  Speaker 1: God does some things that are confusing. He does some
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  Speaker 1: things that are confusing. He allows some things that are unexplainable.
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  Speaker 1: He disrupts your life in crazy ways. How could you
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  Speaker 1: tell this girl she has favor and when I leave
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be pregnant and they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: looking at you and you're going to be riding the
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  Speaker 1: back of a donkey with no place to stay. Birth
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  Speaker 1: your baby in a barn. How is that favor?
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  Speaker 2: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: Christ the Lord is born in a messy relationship by
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  Speaker 1: a couple on the run and a pregnant, sweating woman
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  Speaker 1: gives birth to a holy child who doesn't even have
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  Speaker 1: any clothes to wrap around him, takes the milk rags
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  Speaker 1: with the sour milk expelled from the cows, and wraps
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  Speaker 1: the milk of the word in the milk of the cows.
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  Speaker 1: What's pulling me down to the mountain when I have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go to the top?
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  Speaker 3: If you've ever climbed a mountain, you know that reaching
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  Speaker 3: the summit requires perseverance, determination, and struggle. In your journey
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  Speaker 3: with Christ, he's often pushing you to a new and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes uncomfortable place. But there's always purpose in the pain.
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  Speaker 3: And when you reach the destination that he leads you to,
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  Speaker 3: the few is worth it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the key to me, to who I am,
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  Speaker 1: to what I am. And I had no chance of
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  Speaker 1: unlocking the door to myself without getting to the key.
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  Speaker 1: And he took the key and hid it in his
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  Speaker 1: garments and started up the hill and told me, you'll
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  Speaker 1: never know if you don't chase me.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, Sarah? Babe, it's time for Christmas. And
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  Speaker 4: the best part of all is giving. God gave his
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  Speaker 4: son and we celebrate his life. I think my.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite part is getting an opportunity to spend time with
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  Speaker 1: our friends and family.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly there will be many laughs.
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  Speaker 1: The love of Jesus is the source from which all
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  Speaker 1: love flows. Let that love flow into your life and
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  Speaker 1: remember that Jesus is the reason for the season. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you. The oxymorons of life will trip you up.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not careful, we have a tendency to process
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  Speaker 1: things This is good, that is bad. This is good,
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  Speaker 1: that is bad. This is a good job, that's a
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  Speaker 1: bad job. This is a good house, that's a bad house.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good person, that is a bad person.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you think linearly about life, you will
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  Speaker 1: always be confused. Because life is quite paradoxical. If you
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  Speaker 1: meet somebody bad, you'll find out they got good qualities.
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  Speaker 1: And if you get around somebody that you think is
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  Speaker 1: really good and you hang around them close enough. And
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  Speaker 1: it will blow your philosophies away over who's good and
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  Speaker 1: who's bad. Because sometimes the person you thought was bad
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  Speaker 1: would help you. And the person you thought was good wouldn't. And.
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  Speaker 1: You learn not to be so cynical, so critical, so conclusive,
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  Speaker 1: so premature in your understanding to think you know so much.
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  Speaker 1: It takes all of your life to figure out life.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Should
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  Speaker 1: I be happy or should I cry? I'm confused. We
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  Speaker 1: celebrate when they come. We cry when they leave. But
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says that's backwards. The Bible says we should
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  Speaker 1: cry when they come and celebrate when they leave. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever been crying about something you should have been
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  Speaker 1: shouting about or shouting about something you should have been
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  Speaker 1: crying about and it took you 10 years to realize
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  Speaker 1: that the thing that you cried about brought you the
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  Speaker 1: most joy and the thing you were excited about brought
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  Speaker 1: all kind of hell in your life? I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. hold your wisdom for
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  Speaker 1: a while because wisdom works slow don't be so quick
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  Speaker 1: to tell everybody what they ought to do because you
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  Speaker 1: might not be as smart as you think you are
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  Speaker 1: you may have misdiagnosed a moment God says you've been
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  Speaker 1: highly favored and right after his exodus she has to
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  Speaker 1: go tell Joseph uh I'm not going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to wear that gown. And now you go into the
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  Speaker 1: test that comes before triumph. And the frustrations that come
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  Speaker 1: before favor. Because her boyfriend says, I'm out. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to walk out quietly. I'm done. I am not going
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  Speaker 1: to the country club and tell my friends at the
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  Speaker 1: golfing tournament that my girlfriend is pregnant with the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out. I'm just out. I'm just out. Whenever God
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  Speaker 1: does something you don't understand, you have a tendency to
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  Speaker 1: want to back out. But the real truth of the
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  Speaker 1: matter is life is designed to try your staying power.
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  Speaker 1: Your staying power. Are you having done all to stand?
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  Speaker 1: Can you stand when you don't understand? When favor wears
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  Speaker 1: the clothes of frustration. Adorned. with the jewelry of failure,
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  Speaker 1: and you question in your own mind, if I'm favored,
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  Speaker 1: why am I pregnant on the back of a donkey
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  Speaker 1: in the hot Palestinian heat looking for a place to
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  Speaker 1: stay to give birth to a holy child who ends
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  Speaker 1: up born in a dirty place? And so it was,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, with the birth of Jesus. It was
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  Speaker 1: an oxymoron. A holy child born in a horrible place.
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  Speaker 1: Espoused to a virgin. Joseph is espoused to a virgin
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  Speaker 1: who is pregnant by a ghost. And in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of planning for the wedding, now we are planning for
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  Speaker 1: divorce and marriage. And now the life has all become
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  Speaker 1: discombobulated because it is no longer smooth sailing. It is
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  Speaker 1: no longer predictable. It's not black or white, right or wrong,
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  Speaker 1: up or down, in or out. It's complicated. If you
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  Speaker 1: ever told your life story... Oh, your mama was a
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  Speaker 1: good woman. Yes, she was a great woman, a wonderful woman,
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful woman, but it's complicated. I had a good childhood,
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  Speaker 1: but it's complicated. I'm strong. Yeah, I'm so old. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm strong. Yeah, man, I'm strong. You don't fool me.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason I did that, well, that part right there, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm strong about most stuff, but Life is complicated. The
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  Speaker 1: Virgin teaches us how to be consistent when life is complicated.
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  Speaker 1: How to be steadfast and abounding in the purpose. of
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  Speaker 1: God while you are confused and pondering in your heart
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  Speaker 1: what in the world is going on in my life
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  Speaker 1: and then when I think about it I think God
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to bring your son into the world
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  Speaker 1: for the first time, why is he not born in
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  Speaker 1: a palace? Escorted by angels in a palatial environment. Why
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  Speaker 1: would you choose the opposite? The desolate, the dank, the decrepit,
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  Speaker 1: the disturbing. And Christ the Lord is born in a
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  Speaker 1: messy relationship. by a couple on the run and a
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  Speaker 1: pregnant sweating woman gives birth to a holy child doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even have any clothes to wrap around him takes the
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  Speaker 1: milk rags with the sour milk expelled from the cows
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  Speaker 1: and wraps the milk of the word in the milk
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  Speaker 1: of the cows what you call swaddling clothes were milk
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  Speaker 1: rags laying around in the barn and God chose this
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  Speaker 1: method to make his entrance. And you see, you can
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  Speaker 1: have favor, but that doesn't mean you don't have fear.
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  Speaker 1: You can have all the favor you want to, but
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have some frustrations. Don't you sit there
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  Speaker 1: for one moment with your pretty self acting like your
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  Speaker 1: life was a straight line of unchallenged successes. How dare
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  Speaker 1: you sit there beside your little sweet muffin and act
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  Speaker 1: like you were always right. I'm right and he's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing counseling couples. They come in your office and
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  Speaker 1: they've already decided who's right and who's wrong. So they
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  Speaker 1: have predetermined scripts. Not knowing that everybody thinks they're right.
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  Speaker 1: And when you really begin to unravel it, both of
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  Speaker 1: them are a little bit right and a little bit wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And such is life. It's this Complicated situation. And the
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Mary teaches us that you can have a visitation
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  Speaker 1: from an angel and still ride on a donkey. That
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost can come upon you and you can
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  Speaker 1: still have no place to stay. That that which is
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  Speaker 1: within you can be conceived by the Holy Ghost and
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  Speaker 1: that that is around you can be demonic and angry
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  Speaker 1: and ready to give up and walk out the door.
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  Speaker 1: And your job, should you choose to accept it, is
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  Speaker 1: to survive it all. I'll be back to you in
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  Speaker 1: just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: God Trust You With Trouble?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever is going on in your life right now that
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  Speaker 1: you might take a moment and think, maybe God chose
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  Speaker 1: me for this assignment. Because he knew that a lesser
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  Speaker 1: man would have caved. That a weaker woman would have
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  Speaker 1: walked away.
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  Speaker 5: That a more childish individual would have thrown in the towel.
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  Speaker 5: And yes, I got mad. And yes, I cried. And yes,
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  Speaker 5: I was frustrated. But I kept on swinging my bat.
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  Speaker 1: What's pulling me down to the mountains? When I have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go to the top.
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  Speaker 3: If you've ever climbed a mountain, you know that reaching
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  Speaker 3: the summit requires perseverance, determination, and struggle. In your journey
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  Speaker 3: with Christ, he's often pushing you to a new and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes uncomfortable place. But there's always purpose in the pain.
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