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I Am Doing a New Thing [prophetic word] - Isaiah 43
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After releasing a prophetic word, off the cuff, in a recent monthly membership call, Margaux was prompted to share with the greater Breathing Underwater/ Permission To Reign community. Which is YOU! Corporately we can sense that God is doing a NEW thing, something we have not known before which can create all kinds of discomfort, fear, and brings to the surface the “old” things that are time be rid off. Are you perceiving the new things God is doing or do you old lenses on? Are you dealing with unbelief, road blocks, insecurities…. Well you’re not alone and this is actually a part of us being brought into the new thing. In this episode Margaux shares some of her recent revelation around “returning to “ who we are designed to be vs. “becoming “ who we are designed to be and the work of renewing the mind and removing lenses to fulfill all that we were intended. Through the message of Isaiah 43: 18-19 God reveals 3 keys for us in this time of transition and returning, and orients us to the season we are truly in.
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Introduction and Community Engagement
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Seeking Divine Wisdom
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We were designed to hunger for the deep things of God, to thrive on faith and wonder, to seek out divine wisdom that defies human logic. We were designed to unlock the mysteries of God.
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This is Breathing Underwater.
Summer of Love Series Introduction
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Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is Breathing Underwater. My name is Margo. We are going to jump right into our episode today. it is the second in our summer series on the Summer of Love. And as per usual, the Holy Spirit is mixing stuff up a little bit. So I'm bringing in a different episode today than was anticipated.
Sharing a Divine Word
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We just had one of our monthly membership calls and I was led to release a word that I've been chewing on something God has been showing me and it ended up being impactful for the other members in the group and one of them even came to me and said I think you need to release this on the podcast because I think the greater breathing underwater and permission to reign community is really going to resonate with this as well so what I'm going to do is I'm going to share a snippet with what I shared with them and then I'm just going to recap a little bit at the end and maybe just clarify a little bit more of of what that could look like to walk out this word.
00:01:36
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And what I would love is if you, the listeners, would give us feedback, would give me feedback. I always have my email at the end of the show in the show notes. I want to hear how this resonated with you.
00:01:48
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I want to hear if this feels in line with what God has already been showing you. If you were challenged by it, maybe you disagree with me on some of this. And I would really love to hear all of that feedback.
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So I just challenge you to do that after you listen to this episode today.
Invitation to Read Isaiah 43
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And for those of you that might want to to read alongside in scripture, the word that I release is coming from Isaiah 43. So if you want to grab your Bible, bring that up next to you. Now's the time to do it.
Discovering Purpose and Identity
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had He already created us with everything inside of us that we need to be who we are and accomplish our purpose on this earth, but also in eternity. There is something for us to accomplish. There is actually like a DNA inside of us that holds everything.
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part of our character, every part of our call, the fullness of who we are actually meant to be. But the work we do in this earth is actually just taking down all the things internally that hinder us from being able to see that.
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It's not like we have to become that. We already are that. We're mostly just taking down these structures that lie to us that we aren't that or that keep us from not being able to see that we are these things.
Overcoming Internal Lies
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And i don't know if any of you have ever gotten a word from God, but you're like,
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Are you sure that's who I am? Like, what do you mean? Like i get words sometimes where I'm like, I'm called to that. Like that just, I don't have any gauge for what that means. But if you're saying that's within me, then I trust you because you know what you put in me from the beginning.
00:03:36
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So I'm not becoming, I'm actually just returning. and so I've been in this space of seeing as these mindsets come up, just as, just as like a structure of lies that the enemy has created to keep me from becoming and embodying the fullness of myself. And it's been, um i'm I'm actually speaking this out in case it speaks to any of you, but it's a different perspective. It's a higher viewpoint of kind of the things that we're going through where this resistance comes from the enemy to hinder us from returning.
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This mindset is in place because of stuff that happened with our family that came through the fall that the enemy has used to hinder us from returning to who we actually
Aligning Decisions with Divine Guidance
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are. And this natural state of union with God and this natural state of union with ourselves and this natural state of of fulfilling who we are and our purpose on the earth and Leaving a church, God calling you to leave a church, like it'd be so easy to go, oh, I have all this stuff coming up about that. Like, is it right? Is it wrong? What are people going to think?
00:04:51
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Am I going to be lonely? Am I ever going to settle? You know all this stuff, these questions that would come up. And yet God is so fierce. Over Anna becoming the fullness of Anna and Heather becoming the fullness of Heather and Kat and Rage and Adam and Laura and Margo becoming the fullness of Margo. Like that is what he is so jealous over that he will navigate us through circumstances
00:05:19
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that will expose our walls that keep us from returning, if that makes sense, just returning to who we are. And so I'm finding that I'm renewing my mind daily on this and just yielding to like, okay, you're you're the one that says who I am in in a moment to moment
Setting Boundaries and Recognizing Capacity
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basis. Maybe that's me having a conversation at work where I would normally want to maybe conserve energy and build And guard myself a little bit because I know how much I have to do that day. And another relational connection feels like, oh gosh, but I, that feels like too much for me right now. And in that moment, checking in with the Lord and going, okay, is this actually becoming more of who I am? Sometimes it is to to actually, but um,
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protect and honor my capacity because it's actually meant to go other places. Maybe that boundary really is a part of me returning to who I am and not taking on something that's people pleasing or whatever.
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Or maybe in that moment, that's me being self-protective, not understanding the relational capacity that I actually have. And so I get to make a choice in that moment. Oh, me actually leaning into this is me returning to who to more of who i've already who I've already been created to be. I'm actually leaning into my shape more. I'm actually filling out more of my capacity, knowing that I can lean into this and still have all that I need to get through my day.
00:06:43
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It could be a decision on a job you take. It could be a decision on what you're going to believe over a situation. It can be looking at finances like we still don't have finances. How is this a part of God's plan? But what is it actually revealing internally that just needs to be brought down so that you can return?
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to who we are. to Does this make sense? So this has been and just not a brand new revelation, but an angle of it that I'm really trying to embody. And in the midst of this, site I felt like the Lord brought Isaiah 43 and part of this is going to correlate.
Renewing the Mind
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And I think a lot of you will understand this correlates to a renewing of the mind as well. And in the renewing of the mind, it means like
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recognizing what's there that's in resistance to who God says you are or to yielding to him so that we can return and be and fill out the space we're meant to fill out and it's Isaiah 43 starting in 18 this is when you guys probably all know do not remember the former things and Do not consider the things of old.
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Behold, I'm doing a new thing.
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Now it shall spring forth. Shall you not know it? I, even I will make a road in the wilderness, says the Lord, and rivers in the desert. Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.
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And this has been a part of of what how he's been discipling me through the scripture. It's like sometimes our subconscious parts will be consistently reminding us, actually remembering on purpose, and negative things that have happened in the past to protect us.
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Oh, remember when that thing happened? It's going to be like that again. Don't do that. Or remember when you were wrong about all of those things? Maybe that's happening again. There's like a subconscious remembering that is happening internally in us too to protect us and to keep us safe.
00:08:50
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But God is saying, don't remember that. he I love in this version, it doesn't say forget. He's saying, don't remember. Like there's actually, we're active in remembering and we need to not. Don't don't exercise that remember muscle of the old.
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Don't exercise that remember muscle of of things that are in the past.
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but I'm doing a new thing. Can you not perceive it? Do you not see it? And that part has been like, there's a lot of things right now where I look with my eyes, i don't see it.
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I see a lot of stuff that feels old, that that looks like it has been. But can I renew my mind to the point where I can see the new that he's doing? Because he's doing a new thing.
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Can you see it? Can you not? I'm doing it whether you can see it or not. Can you focus on seeing it? Where are you seeing it? Even in a small way, renew your mind to the point where you can see how the season has shifted, how I am speaking on these things, how I'm moving in these areas. Even if it doesn't look like the fullness of what I've promised yet, where do you see it? Because it's new.
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There is a new thing.
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And then I just really felt too, like i will make a road in the wilderness, just this reminding of...
Trusting God to Forge New Paths
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He's not waiting on us to make a road in the wilderness. He, he's got to do that.
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Like we partner with him, but I think especially in long waiting Caesar when seasons are when things feel like they're not coming together or it feels like there's a battle. It's like, did I do something wrong? Do I need to do something more? Is there like, am I in the wilderness? Cause I should have just plowed through that sucker and like cut down some trees and then I'd be on the other side by now.
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But it's this reminder of he will make the road in the wilderness. He's the one that's doing that. So it's felt like this kind of threefold. Hey, what you can do is stop exercising that remember muscle.
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The best you can. Let go of what was behind. Don't focus there anymore. Look for what is new. It's easy to look for what is old. You don't have to try.
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And that is... That's the path of least resistance. And our minds, our brains are actually literally wired to look for the path of least resistance.
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That's why we fall into those old patterns so easily. So we actually have to pay attention to to not remember.
Embracing New Beginnings
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And then create the new neural pathway, the new muscle of looking for what is new.
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And remember that but the streams and the desert places, that the the places that look barren, like that shifting is is on him. It's on him.
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Yeah.
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So even as I'm just hearing everyone share, it's like, I can see the newness. I can see the newness for you, Adam. I can see the newness for you, Rach. I can see the newness for you, Laura. I can see how the butterflies coming out of the cocoon. i can see the blooms coming up, but can we, can we see it on our old lot in our own lives?
00:12:04
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And can we yield to sight of seeing the new and letting go of this exercising the remembering muscle. That's kind of probably a part of what we're all working out in some way, shape, or form.
00:12:19
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And i so I would say even the new thing he's doing is actually an ancient thing, which is where this all is like the beautiful paradox of scripture. It's new to us. But it's already been established since before the foundations of the earth as well.
00:12:34
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It's like we are returning to who we are. We are taking the land and inherit and inheritance that he has already established for us. It looks and feels new to us, but it also feels ancient and totally in line with who who we actually are.
00:12:53
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Whew, that's a good word now that I'm listening back to it. This was actually just kind of a riff in the moment. It was that one of the first times I had articulated really what had been percolating inside of me and what I felt like God had been showing me. And it ah was a it was a response after we had all on the membership call gone through and shared some of what was happening in our lives.
00:13:13
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Some of the good things, but also some of the frustrations. And I just felt to release that. And I do feel the same to release that to all of you, because I think God is doing something corporately where he is absolutely doing a new thing.
00:13:27
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That same scripture, when i when I read it in the Passion Translation, it says, I'm doing something unheard of. And like I mentioned just now in that word, it's something ancient.
00:13:38
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It's actually nothing new for the Lord. It's what was written to be established all along, and yet we haven't seen it yet. We haven't experienced it yet, but it is a part of that returning to who we are And all things being righted and brought into God's order and the reminder of his sovereignty that he is doing something new. And sometimes we're not able to actually even perceive that because we have these lenses of the old.
00:14:10
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When I was talking earlier about that, you know, the mindsets or the limiting beliefs, the remembering the past definitely keeps us protected, but it also keeps us in these lenses where we don't see what's in front of us in the now clearly.
00:14:28
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This is something that God has been working with me on. And so it's a part of what I want to just release to you and challenge you with is where is God actually asking you to remove these lenses? Where is he poking on something that may be hard to believe? Maybe it's a promise. Maybe it's something he's saying you're called to. Maybe it's something he's asking you to do that you don't feel capable of.
00:14:51
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Maybe it's to actually believe that things are going to change and you've been praying for something for a really long time. I don't know exactly what it is for you, but where are those areas where he's saying, this needs to be removed, this unbelief, this doubt, this memory of the past that keeps you in in fear.
00:15:12
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This needs to be removed so that you can actually return Becoming in returning to who you are meant to be and to actually see what I'm doing in this in this time, this new, new thing that I'm doing.
00:15:31
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I even had this recognition actually just recently, I was not even conscious of it, but when I stepped back and take a look and took a look at it, Holy Spirit actually was the one that that got my attention. I had been in a thought pattern where I was kind of replaying tapes. You know how that happens? Or you're thinking back over something that had happened in the past that was negative. And I just had this realization, oh my gosh, I'm doing that.
00:15:57
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It wasn't like I sat down to intentionally have a remember session, right? Like it was just naturally already playing through my subconscious because that part of me is trying to keep me safe or it's trying to find something to compare to what I'm seeing and is happening now.
00:16:13
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And so immediately i was just in the experience from the past and it makes it almost impossible to see something new when I'm wearing the lenses of the past.
00:16:25
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And listen, he's working this out in me. He is working this out in me right now. But we are in a time where God is ruthlessly going after in his righteous jealousy who we were actually created to be. He wants us to be in the fullness of ourselves more than we do, far more than we do, way more than we do.
00:16:43
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We would always just stand for the comfortable. Right? Especially when things seem like really hard to believe. And there's some things he's told us that are hard to believe because eye has seen or ear has heard yet.
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Right? But he knows what he put inside of us.
00:17:02
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at the beginning, and he is so faithful to bring that forward. I'm going to give you just an illustration of this briefly, and then I'm going to walk you quickly back through these these kind of three things to ponder as God is speaking to you through this scripture. But what I wanted to do was just touch briefly on this revelation of the of the returning.
00:17:22
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This is something that um I have been walking in and chewing on for a while, but I feel like is really at the forefront right now. This idea that we have everything inside of us already, that we're not being made something new.
00:17:34
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We're actually returning to something old that feels new to us because it is our original design. And this kind of concept of how God is removing these false things so that we can become more full in who we are, removing some self-protection, speaking to us about the space that we get to take up so that we can fulfill, we can be full and we can fulfill who we are, who we are meant to be, and then fulfill our purpose on the earth.
00:18:09
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That imagery might be hard or different for some of you, especially if you grew up hearing or believing that God wants you to be something other
Michelangelo and God's Work Within Us
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than you are. If he's like, nope, I need to make you something completely new. we need to change this.
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I need to to form who you are into something completely different. I don't believe that that is, i don't believe that that is accurate. And there's a quote that's one of my favorites that I use all the time. And it came from Michelangelo, the the famous artist, and painter and sculptor who did the sistine the Sistine ceiling. And of course, so many sculptures out of marble and ah limestone. But at one point he was asked the question, when you see a slab of marble, how do you decide what you you're going to make that into? Like, how do you know what you're going to carve when you see that?
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And Michelangelo just answered, it's it's not like that. I actually see the angel in the marble and I carve to set it free. I see what's in there already.
00:19:10
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And then I'm just carving so that I can release its form essentially. And I think that is really a picture of what God is doing with us. He's so intentional. He was so intentional when he created us.
00:19:24
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He already sees our shape and what is on us that is false and misfitting. And those are the things he's going to remove so that we can be fully in our form.
00:19:35
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So as you read Isaiah 43, 18 and 19, there's kind of three points here.
Letting Go of the Past
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The first one is do not remember the former things anymore.
00:19:47
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This is actually the invitation to stop remembering. don't exercise that remember muscle anymore. It isn't just about forgetting. It's about stop going through that remembering process. And now, just like I gave an example of myself earlier, it's not something that I was really even conscious I was doing, but the Holy Spirit tapped me and I realized, oh my gosh, that's what's happening right now. And I was able to interrupt that and invite God into it.
00:20:15
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The second thing is Do you not perceive
Perceiving Subtle Divine Works
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it? I'm doing a new thing. Do you not perceive it? What are the lenses that are keeping us from being able to see the new thing that God is doing? Because it's happening.
00:20:29
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It's springing forth. It might just be a little sprout, but it's there. And you may not see it in every area of your life, but where do you see it? Because that is a sign to you that the new thing is here. And and just asking God to help you see, to give you the lenses for now.
00:20:47
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To give you the lenses to look at that same old tree you've been looking at for 20 years and go, see it differently in this light. This tree is not the same exact tree that it was a year ago.
00:21:01
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It's grown. it has changed. It's not the exact same tree, even though our mind registers it as, oh yeah, that's that tree. I have the lens on of, I know exactly what that is and nothing has changed. So what lenses need to be changed?
00:21:15
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in order to see the new thing that he's doing. And then thirdly, it's really this yielding and surrendering and this resting into the fact that the streams in the wilderness and the road through the desert have to be made by him.
Creating New Life Paths and Community Feedback
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They have to be made by him. It's not something that we can do by sheer will or might. It's not something that he's waiting for us to figure out. There's actually a resting into his timing and the sovereignty of his hand.
00:21:48
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So I leave you with those things. Like I said before, I would love to get your feedback on how this was for you, whether it was good, bad, ugly. If you had a bunch of stuff come forward, amazing. I'd still love to hear about that because God loves to confront us with things. And oftentimes when I'm offended or I have something come up, it's something I'm supposed to see.
00:22:04
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So I think any reaction is a success. But I'd also just really love the feedback to see where our community is and where how we're all tracking together. So again, don't hesitate to email me. My email is in the show notes.
00:22:18
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And until next time, happy, happy dreaming.