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Hi, I'm Kyle.
Welcome to Crossroads
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Thanks for joining us for
a Thanksgiving experience.
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Thanksgiving is one of
those times of the year
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where it's so critical
and so important,
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particularlly in
years like this one,
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years where so many
things are different
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and it's harder sometimes
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to find things to
be grateful for.
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But we believe there's
power in pausing
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and practicing
gratitude together
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Now, speaking of different,
what you're about to watch
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is going to look different
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than what you can see
around you right now.
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Because this episode is one that
we think has incredible power,
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but it was filmed
before the pandemic.
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Remember before you had
to wear a mask everywhere
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and you could actually sit
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closer than 6 feet
next to each other?
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Yeah, it was filmed then.
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But the reason we're
bringing it to you is because
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there's an amazing experience in
here that you're going to learn
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An experience that Brian has
done with his family for decades
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that holds incredible
power in gratitude
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and may very well may become
a family tradition for you.
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Not only is it for this year,
but for many, many to come.
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Let's get started.
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You know, we're
doing this because
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we want our
Thanksgivings to be better.
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We want them to be different.
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We don't just want the same old,
same old and gorge on Turkey
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and have tryptophan overload and
all the rest the stuff. Right?
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We want to connect with God.
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So we're giving you real things
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you can do to
start new traditions.
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Well, hey, my
name is Brian Tome.
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It's great to be with you
today here at my house.
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And I've got some
friends, family members,
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and colleagues around the table
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that we'll be talking
with them in a little bit.
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We're doing something
a little different.
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Well, it's different for me.
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It may be very
different for you.
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It's called Thanksgiving Eve.
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You might be saying,
"Thanksgiving Eve?
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What is Thanksgiving Eve?
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I've heard of Christmas.
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I've heard of Christmas Eve.
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Why Thanksgiving Eve?"
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Well, we invented it
here at Crossroads.
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Yes, we actually --
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someone else might have
been doing it for a while.
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But we have been
doing this at Crossroads
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for many, many,
many, many years.
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Thanksgiving is really
probably my favorite holiday.
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Of all the holidays,
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it's one holiday that hasn't
been commercialized.
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And it's one holiday that
has deep, intensive roots.
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So why not just
celebrate Thanksgiving
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when we can also
celebrate Thanksgiving Eve?
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And we're going to
do something right now
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that I think is going
to be helpful to you,
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helpful to all of us.
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And even if you're
just watching right now,
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if you do this tomorrow
on Thanksgiving
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or New Year's Eve
or Christmas Eve,
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I promise you you're going to
have a more meaningful holiday
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than you normally do.
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So let me give us a scripture.
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The scripture is 1
Thessalonians 1:2.
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It says this:.
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We give thanks to God always
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for all of you constantly
mentioning you in our prayers.
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We give thanks to God.
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They give thanks.
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Well, why isn't it like we think
thanks, we meditate thanks,
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we philosophize
thanks, we have thanks?
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Give thanks.
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To give something is assuming
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there is an object or an
entity who is to receive it.
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That's what Thanksgiving is.
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We are giving thanks to the One
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who is worthy of receiving
thanks, and that's God.
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And we're going to try to
remember today the things
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that God has done in
our life over the last year.
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And we're going
to celebrate that
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and we're going
to thank God for it.
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We're going to
thank each other for it.
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And in the midst of it,
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we're going to have something
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that's going to
actually overflow.
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We've been doing
this in my family
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for, gosh, probably 20 years.
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It centers around
this vase right here.
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This vase is a family keepsake.
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It says engraved on
this Waterford crystal,
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"Only in America.
Gee, aren't we lucky?".
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Gee, aren't we lucky,
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that's how an old friend
of mine used to talk.
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Not quite that dorky.
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It's has the initials CHL,
which is Carl Henry Lindner.
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Carl Lindner was
the, I don't know,
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just a very wealthy
philanthropist in Cincinnati.
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He owned the Cincinnati Reds.
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A primary shareholder in
Great American Financial
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and Chiquita Banana, and a
whole bunch of other things.
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And I got the blessing to
go to his 80th birthday party.
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I'm not sure exactly how I did,
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but I got to go to his
80th birthday party.
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And Carl is like the only guy
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when someone comes
to his birthday party,
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he gives them gifts.
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So he gave all
the guys cufflinks
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and all the ladies this vase.
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"Only in America.
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Gee, aren't we lucky?"
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I know his sons would often
times talk to him and say,
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"Dad, we're not
lucky, we're blessed.
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We're blessed. We
didn't just hit the lotto.
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God has been smiling on us.
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He's blessing us.
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It's something to give
thanks to God for."
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So what we've done
is we've taken this vase
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and we put it in the
center of our table.
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And we go round
and as we give thanks
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we take a little water
and we pour it in.
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And most the time we
have little itty bitty teacups
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that trace way back to Lib's
grandmother and we do those.
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But it's going to be a lot
cleaner for us right now
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to just use water like this.
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And this also is tied into
something in the scripture.
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It comes from the
Book of Psalms 23:5.
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King David says:
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You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
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You anoint my head
with oil, my cup overflows.
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I've been around this table,
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we've got a lot of
things to give thanks for.
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I'll bet around this table
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we have a lot of things
that are overflowing.
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Not all of us have
overflowing friends
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or overflowing finances
or overflowing health.
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But all of us have
been blessed by God.
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All of us have received
things from God.
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And we want to say
thank you to Him.
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Right now we want
to give thanks to Him.
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So before we go any further,
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why don't we just give thanks
to God right now in prayer, OK?
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God, I am amazed
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at the number of things that
You have blessed me with,
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the number of things
You blessed us with,
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the number of
things You've given,
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and the number of --
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The amount of protection
that You've given me
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and probably everyone
around this table.
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I pray that all of
us who are here,
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all of us who are streaming,
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all of us who are
engaged right now,
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You would hear from
us that we're thankful.
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We want to give You our thanks.
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We want You to be encouraged
and You to be blessed
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by us articulating
how good You are
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in specific ways this
Thanksgiving Eve.
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Amen.
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Well, I'm going to start here.
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Actually, we have all staff
members around the table.
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So I'm going to start with this.
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I'm going to say, one of the
things I'm really thankful for
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are the incredible,
incredible people
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that God helps me work with,
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that God enables
me to work with.
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I'm thankful for
Ali cat over there,
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who's, man, you hit
a whole new gear.
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All new gear in terms
of teaching this last year.
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Thank you for Malcolm,
also known as X.
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Thanks for X and the amazing
job you're doing at Florence.
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I'm so thankful for A-A-Ron,
also known as Aaron,
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who does a lot of our digitizing
and music behind the scenes.
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Robbie Reider who
does all of our music stuff.
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Latasha who does our H.R.
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I mean each one of you guys, I
probably should do my own thing,
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but I just wanted a blanket
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to say I'm just so
thankful for all of you.
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I'm a blessed man to
be able to be with you.
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I give thanks for you, to you.
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- So I'm next.
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So I -- this year,
I'm really thankful.
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My husband, Nick and I
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are expecting our
second child in April,
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which is great.
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But I know that
there are just --
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There's so many families
who struggle to get pregnant.
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And so I am just
really thankful
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that that was not an
issue for us with this baby.
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And at the same time, I
have two sister-in-laws
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that are also due
within a week of me.
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And so I'm just excited for
my kids to grow up with cousins
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and to be blessed with
another healthy pregnancy.
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- That was good.
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- I'm Ali and I'm a teaching
pastor at Crossroads.
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And I give thanks to
God this year specifically
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for the opportunity
to be in school.
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I'll actually be finishing soon
and I'm excited about that too,
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the opportunity to
get out of school.
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But I don't -- I'm not
thankful for the knowledge,
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though I think that will
serve me in some ways.
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I'm thankful that I
know Him better.
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I feel like as a result
of being in school,
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because He knows me and He
knows how I'm going to meet Him.
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And He knows how I'm
gonna get to know Him,
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that this process of
being in school for me
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has been like a long process
of getting to know Him better.
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And I am so grateful for that.
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I'm so grateful
that He knows me
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well enough to put
me in a situation
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where that's going
to be the result,
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even if at school in my 40s.
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So I'm incredibly thankful
for a God who knows me
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and who just lined up all
the circumstances in my life
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to make that possible for
the last couple of years.
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So.
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- That's great.
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- My name is Malcolm Henderson,
Community Pastor at Florence.
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And as of six hours ago,
other than car payments,
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my wife Erin and I are
completely debt free.
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- Wow, that's awesome.
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- Yeah, so we closed on a
house a couple weeks ago.
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And because of the
check that they cut,
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we were able to pay
off all student loans,
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all credit card debot.
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And God has just completely
turned around our finances.
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So, that's amazing.
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- How did you do that? Any
key things you did differently?
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- My wife's very handy,
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so she completely renovated
the house we lived in.
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So literally first day on
the market, first showing,
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a full price offer.
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God just showed us so much
favor through the process, so.
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- That's amazing.
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- I'm Aaron. I'm on our
music team at Crossroads.
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I get to work with this
guy, which is a lot of fun.
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And one of the things
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I'm really, really
thankful for this year
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is my son was born in February.
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His name's Anson.
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One of the reasons I'm
thankful, it's our first son.
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So we have two
girls and a boy now.
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But more than
that, I'm thankful
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just because I'm reminded
of God's faithfulness.
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Our oldest, Juliet, was born.
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We didn't have any
issues having her.
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And then after that,
we actually lost two kids.
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And the doctors -- it
was terrible surgery,
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like an emergency
surgery for my wife.
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She lost one of her tubes.
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And the doctors told us that
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we probably weren't going
to be able to have kids again.
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But we were believing for more
and really just knew that --
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We believed that God was
going to give us more kids.
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So we've had two
more since then.
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We think He's going to
give us even more than that.
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So it's just -- just
100% God's faithfulness.
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And I believe each one of
these kids is a miracle, so.
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- Fantastic.
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- Yeah.
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- So, are you done?
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- No.
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He wants more.
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- More.
- More.
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- This is -- this little nerdy.
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So can I get a little nerdy?
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- You are are a little
nerdy, so just be yourself.
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- With your glasses
you fit right in.
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- Yeah. You haven't
pushed there.
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- There we go.
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No, so you all know I
have I have type 1 diabetes.
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And it's just -- I limp
with that all the time.
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That's my --
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And it's -- if you're going
to have a chronic illness,
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it's the one to get.
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So let me just
phrase it like that.
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But the technology behind
it makes my life so rich.
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So like right now I wear
these medical devices
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and you can't even see them.
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But I wear them and they make
me more aware and healthier.
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So while I -- So now I can --
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So, I've got one here on my arm.
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I've got one on my belly.
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But I can look at my watch
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and it will tell me
what my blood sugar is.
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And it alerts me
if it's high or low
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and it tells my
wife when it's high.
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And so, like I have a care team
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of people who
love me and want --
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You know, she may text me and
go, "You need to eat something."
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I was like, "I
didn't even know."
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So I'm grateful for the science
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and the technology
that lets me live a really --
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I'm probably
healthier right now
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because of it than I
would be otherwise.
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So I'm really thankful
for the technology
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that makes me continue
to live every day.
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I'm really grateful.
Look at that.
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- Oh!
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- I'm so grateful.
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So grateful.
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- So I actually have in general
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hated to travel
almost all my life.
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Maybe because I'm impatient.
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Maybe I don't like airplanes.
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I'm not exactly sure.
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But when my daughter graduated,
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I made a couple of
promises to myself.
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And one was that I would
buy really fancy luggage
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and get the Clear or the TSA
pre-check and I would travel.
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And so I'm so grateful
and thankful to God that --.
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- The Clear, the eyeball thing.
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- Um-hmm.
- Is it worth it?
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- I don't know. Yeah, I mean.
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Well, you know
what's not worth it?
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TSA pre-check,
because everybody has it.
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- Yeah, totally.
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- Everybody has it.
- There's too many pre people.
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- Seriously.
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- Yeah. Right. We
need post check.
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- Yeah. Not a lot of people
have Clear, so that's why, yeah.
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So I had the TSA Pre
and then I got the Clear.
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- OK.
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- So I got fancy
luggage and I got Clear.
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And I've already a
couple of places this year.
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And I've also scheduled lots
of great trips with girlfriends
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and with my family and
with my kid and with friends.
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And so I'm super grateful just
for the opportunity to travel.
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What I've learned, kind
of like camping, Brian,
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is that you have
to have great gear.
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And so I'm super
grateful to God for that.
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- That's good.
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- Woo, close.
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- This is a year I had a
lot of construction projects,
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a lot of Hands-On stuff.
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I shot my first deer this year.
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I did a lot of stuff
around the house.
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This table got made, the
buffet over there got made
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and a bunch of other things.
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I just -- I'm thankful
that God has given me
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the skills He's giving
me to do these things.
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And specifically He gave me
those skills by introducing me
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to people who
gave me those skills.
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Scott Federoff in Construction,
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Max Andrijeski in
Cabinet making/cabinetry,
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Shimon Myers who sat at this
table the day after Thanksgiving
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and gave me a primer on
what cross-bow I needed to get
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and what to do, and
the next day I had a deer.
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So it were these people
just building into me
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and giving me
information I didn't have.
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And I'm thankful for being
competent and capable.
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I'm thankful how God has
brought the right person
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into my life at the right
time to give me a full life.
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(crosstalk)
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- I'll let you have it.
I'll let you have it.
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I'll let you have it. Would
you want me to overflow it?
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00:15:14
- Kinda kind of.
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00:15:16
- All right.
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00:15:17
- No, not -- not now.
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00:15:18
You already made your decision.
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00:15:20
- I'd like to stretch it out.
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00:15:21
You know, this is how I
go, I like to stretch it out.
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00:15:24
I want more gratitude.
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00:15:25
- I know.
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00:15:26
- I know you, you're
tired of this gratitude thing.
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00:15:28
Can we just go start
watching Netflix?
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00:15:31
No, I'm enjoying -- I'm enjoying
the worshipful environment here.
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00:15:36
- I appreciate the
water overflowing,
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00:15:38
going, "Look at how
generous God's been."
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00:15:41
You're just, you know,
you're stiffing God here
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00:15:46
by not letting us experience it.
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00:15:47
- Okay.
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00:15:49
- Is this Thanksgiving?
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00:15:50
- Oh, yeah.
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00:15:51
It pretty much is, yes.
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00:15:53
- A very aggressive
Thanksgiving.
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00:15:56
- Aggressive. We
live an aggressive life.
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00:15:57
- I'll do another
one. There you go.
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00:16:01
I am really thankful, I used
to shun social media stuff.
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00:16:05
I used to judge people
who did social media
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00:16:07
and did blogs and podcasts.
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00:16:09
Boy, was I wrong. I've had --
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00:16:10
God's given me a lot of favor
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00:16:13
and having fun doing
Aggressive Life and the podcast.
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00:16:17
And it's been fun to
think about things to post.
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00:16:19
I think I did a bunch
of posts on this table.
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00:16:21
So there again,
another new experience
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00:16:24
that God gave
me this last year.
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00:16:26
My cup runneth over.
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00:16:34
I like to say my cup overflows
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00:16:37
because I'm visibly seeing
the cup overflowing right there.
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00:16:41
And it's true, my
heart, my cup overflows.
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00:16:45
So it's really cool to have
a physical representation
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00:16:47
of the way I feel
or we feel inside.
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00:16:49
It's good.
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00:16:50
So here's the way this goes.
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00:16:52
It's mandatory going
round the circle.
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00:16:53
And then once it
overflows like it just did,
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00:16:56
then it's just free for all.
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00:16:57
If you don't have anything
else you want to say,
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00:16:59
you don't have to say anything.
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00:17:00
If you want to pitch in now,
it's just kind of free for all,
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00:17:03
if you want to add on and
see the cup overflowing.
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00:17:05
We start adding
stuff on right now.
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00:17:08
- I've got another one.
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00:17:09
For the first time
ever in my life,
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00:17:11
I have a mentor,
which is amazing.
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00:17:13
And it's named Don Gerred.
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00:17:15
He's the exact opposite
of me in every single way.
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00:17:20
But man, he challenges me.
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00:17:23
He's making me a better leader,
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00:17:24
a better husband,
a better friend.
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00:17:26
So very, very thankful for him.
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00:17:30
- I'm thankful for my
father-in-law, who --
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00:17:33
We bought a new house
this year, have moved.
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00:17:35
And he has spent so
much time at our house
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00:17:38
just rewiring our dishwasher
and repainting our laundry room.
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00:17:44
And just -- he has
endlessly served my family.
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00:17:48
So I'm very thankful for Lou.
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00:17:51
- Ok, speaking of laundry room.
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00:17:54
It reminded me I
wrote down one day,
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00:17:56
I am thankful for my extra
large capacity washer.
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00:18:00
I have a household
of six people.
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00:18:03
I do so much
laundry, it's insane.
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00:18:06
And with my extra large capacity
washer, I do fewer loads.
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00:18:09
[laughter]
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00:18:13
Well, there you have it, guys.
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00:18:15
You know a good thing to do
when you close up this exercise
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00:18:17
is just maybe just --
Why don't we hold hands
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00:18:19
and just thank God
one last time here.
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00:18:21
OK?
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00:18:24
Lord, You are good
to give us each other,
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00:18:26
good to give us this holiday.
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00:18:27
And You're good to give us
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00:18:28
all the things we
mentioned and more.
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00:18:30
We pray God for this next year.
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00:18:32
We ask for more this next year.
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00:18:34
We ask for Your hand
of blessing on our life
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00:18:36
this whole next year.
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00:18:37
And we're already looking
forward to next Thanksgiving
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00:18:39
because we want to recount
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00:18:40
the crazy, great, generous
things You've done in our life.
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00:18:44
You're good.
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00:18:45
I pray these things according
to the name of Jesus, Amen.
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00:18:50
Well, one more
thing I want to do.
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00:18:52
Why don't we adjourn
to the couch over here.
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00:18:55
And why don't we sing
some worship songs?
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00:18:58
No matter where you are, we'd
love for you to join in with us.
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00:19:00
It's another way to give thanks,
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00:19:02
not just articulating
things to God,
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00:19:04
but also singing things to God.
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00:19:06
So why don't we go over
and sing some stuff to God.
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00:19:19
All right. We're not done yet.
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00:19:21
We're not done yet.
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00:19:23
Oh, by the way.
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00:19:24
Yes.
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00:19:25
Thankful for a new member
of our family, Peanut.
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00:19:27
Say hello to, everybody, Peanut.
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00:19:29
Hello. Hello.
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00:19:31
Yes. If you've been the past,
Winston has been with us.
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00:19:33
Winston is no more part of our
family, but we have Peanut here.
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00:19:36
So here's Peanuts
first Thanksgiving.
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00:19:38
And don't --
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00:19:39
You know we're doing this
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00:19:41
because we want our
Thanksgivings to be better.
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00:19:44
We want them to be different.
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00:19:45
We don't just want to
do the same old same old
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00:19:47
gorge on Turkey
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00:19:48
and have tryptophan overload and
all the rest the stuff. Right?
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00:19:51
We want to connect with God.
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00:19:52
So we're giving you real things
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00:19:54
you can do to
start new traditions.
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00:19:57
The one we did around the table.
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00:19:58
Now the one we're
gonna sing right now.
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00:20:00
When we sing it can be
very uncomfortable for us,
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00:20:02
but we sing.
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00:20:03
We give thanks to God.
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00:20:06
That's what these words say,
we're giving thanks to God.
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00:20:08
God gets to hear from
us with our voice box,
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00:20:13
making a melody, making music.
-
00:20:15
And it feels vulnerable,
which is exactly why
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00:20:17
I think God receives it
as a beautiful offering.
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00:20:21
Is that right, Captain
Worshiper, Robbie Reider?
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00:20:23
- Yeah. Yeah.
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00:20:24
What we're about to do,
I think, we can all agree,
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00:20:28
it's a little uncomfortable.
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00:20:29
But we wouldn't ask you to do it
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00:20:31
if we didn't believe
that it was good for you.
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00:20:34
So I know it's super easy
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00:20:35
that when you're
watching this at home,
-
00:20:37
maybe you've
got it up on the TV,
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00:20:39
maybe got on your laptop.
-
00:20:40
It comes time to the
singing and it's like,
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00:20:41
"Well, maybe I need to
unload the dishwasher."
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00:20:43
Stop. Don't unload the
dishwasher right now.
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00:20:46
I would encourage
you to take the posture
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00:20:48
of all these fine folks
right here and sit down.
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00:20:51
And the words are gonna
show up on your screen.
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00:20:53
I want to invite
you for the next 12,
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00:20:55
maybe 13, 14
minutes to sing along.
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00:20:58
Because what's
going to happen is
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00:21:00
you're going to
train your heart
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00:21:01
to fall in line with all
the things of gratitude
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00:21:04
that we just said.
-
00:21:05
We just said our gratitude,
now we're going to sing it.
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00:21:07
And it's a humbling thing,
and yet the Lord loves it.
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00:21:11
I love it when my kids
hand make me a card.
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00:21:14
It's way more meaningful
than when my kids
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00:21:16
buy me a card and just
write their name on it.
-
00:21:18
Now, which one's prettier?
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00:21:20
Well, people would
probably say the bought card.
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00:21:22
But the one I keep is
the one they made for me.
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00:21:24
And that's what
we're doing right now,
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00:21:26
we're making a card of
gratitude to our Father.
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00:21:29
All right. So step away
from the dishwasher
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00:21:31
and go sit back down on
your couch and let's do this.
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00:21:34
All right?
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00:21:39
Sing, our God a firm foundation.
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00:26:37
- So as we're singing
this this line, "we say yes,"
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00:26:41
like, one of the
things that we can do
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00:26:43
is we can simply just say,
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00:26:45
"Jesus, yes, You are the
one that is our provider.
-
00:26:48
Yes, Jesus. If there's any
amount of blessing in our life,
-
00:26:52
yes, it comes from You.
-
00:26:54
Yes. Jesus, if I have
any health, it is from You.
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00:26:58
And when I follow You, I
experience Your freedom."
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00:27:02
So here's what I want you to do.
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00:27:03
I want you to, wherever
you are right now,
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00:27:05
if you're sitting
on a couch like us,
-
00:27:07
if you're in your
car in traffic,
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00:27:09
I want you to take this moment.
-
00:27:10
We're going to give
you like 20 seconds
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00:27:12
and I want you to come
up with your own top three.
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00:27:15
What are you
grateful for right now?
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00:27:18
And then as we sing
the chorus the next time,
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00:27:20
you're just going to hold that
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00:27:22
in the front of your
mind. All right?
-
00:27:23
Think of those three things.
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00:27:34
So, God, as we sing
this, we say yes to You,
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00:27:38
that You are our provider.
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00:27:40
You are our King.
You are our Father,
-
00:27:42
You're our savior,
and we love You.
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00:27:49
You guys ready? We say yes.
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00:31:32
- God, we are grateful and
that's why we're gathered here.
-
00:31:35
That's why we're
being vulnerable
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00:31:37
and we're singing loudly.
-
00:31:39
We thank You for what
You've done in our lives,
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00:31:41
what You're doing in our lives,
-
00:31:43
and what You have
yet to do in our lives.
-
00:31:46
So with a great
hope and anticipation
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00:31:48
that comes from the power
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00:31:51
and the integrity and the
authority of the name Jesus
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00:31:55
that we were singing before.
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00:31:57
Amen.
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00:31:59
Great job, guys.
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00:32:01
That was strong.
-
00:32:02
Great job for sticking it out
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00:32:04
and not doing the
dishes right now.
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00:32:08
BT, what do you got for us?
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00:32:09
- I've got nothing.
It's Thanksgiving.
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00:32:11
Let's do something else
other than watch a screen.
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00:32:13
Let's go, chop, chop.
- Yeah, come on.
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00:32:16
- Thanks for being part
of our Thanksgiving experience.
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00:32:18
Join us starting this weekend
for our Chrismas series:
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00:32:21
Christmastime 2020,
A Weary World Rejoices
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00:32:25
I know that is exactly how
I feel, the weary part.
-
00:32:28
We put up our Christmas tree
on November 1.
-
00:32:30
It seems like this year,
more than any other,
-
00:32:33
you and I need
the grounding in Christmas
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00:32:35
so that we can get to
the place of rejoicing.