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Preparing for Trials: the Importance of Scripture Memory

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Preparing for Trials: the Importance of Scripture Memory

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Two godly women, Dolores Michelson and Logan Carr, share their experiences with scripture memorization and how it has helped them navigate life's challenges, including chronic pain, brain tumors, and multiple sclerosis. They emphasize the importance of memorizing scripture to have hope and joy in the midst of trials and to lead their families with confidence and wisdom.

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Today's episode is dedicated to the memory of my grandfather. Burton E. Michelson. Welcome to Hope in the Morning. turning tragedies and tears into testimonies of hope.

Welcome to Hope in the Morning. I'm your host, Emily Curtis. Could you imagine sending a troop of soldiers into battle without armor? a lack of preparedness would result in almost certain death. As Christians we are guaranteed challenges in this life, and the time to prepare for all of the trials that lie ahead us is before we enter the battle.

Today we're going to talk about the immeasurable value of scripture memorization. I'm joined by two very special guests, my grandmother, Dolores Michelson, who I call Moremore, and a dear family friend, Logan Carr. These two godly women have memorized Scripture for dozens of years, and have memorized entire books of the Bible. What makes them a wealth of wisdom, however, is that they have not only memorized Scripture, but have faithfully obeyed it and clung to it throughout their lives. Mooremore and Logan, thank you so much for joining me today on Hope in the Morning.

Well, we're thrilled to be here. You both are very godly women that I look up to. And I know that you're humble enough to not want to take that compliment, but. You both have memorized scripture and lived it out. And.

You haven't walked easy lives. You both have gone through quite a bit of things. Logan, I know that you have gone through.

Some chronic pain throughout your life, and more and more you have gone through a brain tumor with pop-op when he was only 25 years old, and you had two little kids at that time, and then you found out when you were very young and pregnant with your third that you had MS.

So And you've gone beyond that. You guys have had more trials than that, but that's just to set the table that. You have had to put your memorization and your faith to work.

So what What are some of the things that caused you guys to decide that scripture memory was important?

Well, go ahead. Want me to say? Yeah, you stay. You stay. Because I did not want to wake up in the middle of the night.

concerned about whether Uh my husband was gonna live or die. I wanted my mind to be on the Lord. and not on the circumstance. That's the reason I started to memorize. How old were you when you started to memorize?

You know, I think it was about When I really started getting into it. But I had started before that. And now you're about 25? Yeah. And holding, holding.

And Logan, what for you caused you to decide that it's not enough to just read your Bible, you wanted to actually memorize it?

Well, I came to the Lord later in life, and I got run over by an 18-wheeler truck. And so I lived through it and walked away from it. And you don't just do that all the time. You shouldn't anyway, right? Exactly.

And so then I came to the Lord about a year later. And when I showed up at Grace Church, a lady who was discipling me said, you need to have a quiet time and you need to read your Bible every day and pray every day and memorize scripture.

So I said, okay. I got run over by a truck. What am I going to say? No? No.

So I said, okay. So I started, and she was really big into memorizing scripture and big chunks of it.

So I started, I said, well, okay, I'll memorize the book of Luke.

So I started with chapter one.

Well, it's 82 verses.

Okay. After I finished those 82 verses, I went, are you kidding me? What's the so I did chapter two? That was like 75 verses. I said, I'm never going to make it through this book.

But that, so I stopped at chapter two at that point because I thought if the next one is that long, I can't.

So I went on to do other things, you know.

So I, I did. I don't know, maybe half the New Testament at this point in my life. But it was because of her inspiration to me to say, Look, this is what you do. I didn't even know what I was doing. Yeah.

But when you get run over by a truck and you know your life has changed and you know you're around people like this gal here, I'm going, I don't know these kinds of people. Yeah. You know? They're very different kinds of people. Yeah, you know.

So, one of the cool things about your guys' friendship is that it is very much an iron sharpens iron. Like, you guys both, you have a passion for the Lord. I would categorize you both as deep worshipers, which. I don't know that you could give that title to just any believer. I think that you guys worship at the feet of Christ on a moment-by-moment basis, not even day by day.

And I've seen it lived out with both of you, where scripture memorization is a huge portion of that. And more, you know, having a front seat to your life. I remember being in your car and you'd have your folded-up paper with all your memorizations. And if we hit a red light, you were reading, you were memorizing. And that stands out to me.

And that's a legacy of something that you passed down because it showed me throughout my life the importance of scripture. And we talk, you know, we talk about how Logan has faced chronic pain and more and more. When you faced the brain tumor that pop-pop got at only 25 years old, what were some of those scriptures that went through your mind that brought you comfort? Oh. You know what?

I couldn't pick out any in particular ones because. Uh when you are in a position where I was, I I clung on to those scriptures like they were. logs of wood. when I would have to I would have to drown if I didn't hang on to those blocks of wood. And that's exactly how.

I how I memorize it. I mean, to save my life because I didn't know what was going to be happening to us. I knew I had three little kids. and my husband all of a sudden Uh was having grandma seizures, And Even UCLA could not say For sure, that they could operate on him and he would be okay. didn't know what portion of the brain would have to be removed.

Yeah, it it was it was a very um tough time and a glorious time. Because Not everybody has to go through those hard times to come to that. Realization That's the Scripture verses Feed your soul. They feed you. They uplift you.

You they are the wood you're hanging on to in the storm. Yeah. You know, with you talking about how the scripture feeds your soul, it makes me think about how when we're ministering to other people that are in the midst of their grief, we often think to bring them food, right? We think, man, they need a meal because they're tired, they're in the midst of this trial. Surely, this is not the time for them to prepare a meal for themselves.

And in the same way, we can. Bring scripture to people that are in the midst of a trial that may not be able to prepare that meal for themselves because they may be so weary. That Maybe words on the page are not even clear to them right now. And yet, if we come to our loved ones and we minister to them as scripture tells us to minister to them. That that is soul giving.

You know that that's something that breathes life and hope. into a situation. When you found out that you Had M S. Um I remember you had told me once that you woke up one morning correct me if I'm wrong in this but I think that you Woke up before you knew, before you were diagnosed with MS, you woke up and you couldn't see one morning. Is that correct?

Right. And you were pregnant, you were actually pregnant with my mom at the time, and Right. How did you How did you combat? The fear that must have been instantaneous in that moment. How did you combat that with what you knew to be true of God?

Because what you knew of scripture.

Well actually Emily It was um I only went blind in one eye. And before I went blind, I saw double vision. And so I would see Uh One of my babies, and I was then I would look down at them, and there's two babies, and they're exactly the same baby. They're multiple. That's scary in and of itself, right?

That that really was um kind of a a test. But Um You know what? The Lord. Ah. This is honest and true.

The Lord meant everything to me. Everything to me. Because I knew That God would not give me anything that He would not help me through. And so I depended on him. From the very beginning, the Yeah.

When I started having the double vision, which I knew was the beginning of whatever. The brain was acting weird. I just revelled in being in his Care. And he and his Love surrounded me. I have never been closer and I have never been further away.

Because once you get that close to the Lord, you never. Back away, you never do, and he is. All in all to me, he carried me, literally carried me. Drew. The whole Episode of having double vision.

I mean, I couldn't even drive a car because I didn't know which car was the real car that was coming to me. But but uh my loved one, there were always two of them instead of one.

So, you know, I tried to make as much of it as I could. And uh Love the enjoy, love the enjoyment of going through hard times. But God has been so merciful to to both Burton and I. Because You know, he was... had a brain tumor which we didn't know about.

And uh And when we had to have the brain tumor Uh Taken out. and eradicated We had a couple of children. And I so I had to kind of think about How I was going to live my life without him if he didn't come through the brain operation. And even though it was at UCLA, And I had a lot of mer confidence in them. How much do you confidence do you have in somebody when they have to open your brain up.

take the tumor out. you know, and then close the close it back up. Yeah. Um Do you remember sitting in the waiting room waiting during that operation? Do I ever?

What scriptures were you clinging to at that time? You know what? Here's the good thing about this. God was so close to me. That I did not even have any of the scriptures with me, they were in me.

It had solidified my heart. I it's a time when you can't talk. You can't explain. You can't do any of these things. All you have to do.

You have to sit. Close your eyes. And just meditate on God's goodness. It is beyond you what you can. Say or do or anything.

It's got to be done ahead of time. And I think that that is the. Saying that Probably Um Helped me most. was to know that I had to do The other medication. all that medication, all the memorization.

that I have done of God's work. Had to be in place. Yeah, yeah. You know, you talk about how God. God, like a lot of people want to use the phrase that God won't give you more than you can handle.

And that's actually not biblical. And when we come back from the break, we're going to talk about how. God often gives us more than we can handle because it drives us to dependence on Him. And that's exactly where we find our rest. There is no rest in ourselves, there's no rest in dependency on ourselves or any other human faculty.

So when we come back, we're going to talk about how memorization. Prepares you for these battles.

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Your donation helps keep these stories of hope on the air and helps tangibly meet the needs of the herd. Welcome back to Hope in the Morning. I'm your host, Emily Curtis, and I'm joined today with my wonderful and beautiful grandmother, Dolores Michelson, whom I call Mooremore, and a sweet, dear family friend, Logan Carr. And we are talking about the value of scripture memorization and why it matters. You know, so many of us, when you hit those hard times, Mooremore, you talked about waiting in the waiting room while your husband had a brain tumor at only 25 years old.

You're sitting there with three little kids and It's overwhelming. You know, you're not in a mindset to say, let me open my Bible and study Luke 2. You know, you are thinking, Lord. Through your spirit, Pour into me what you've already put there. And that is, that's why this episode is so important because we are all guaranteed trials in this life.

And not only are we guaranteed trials in our own life, but as Christians, we're guaranteed to walk through trials of our friends and our family. And what kind of counselor are we going to be? We all are counselors as Christians. Are you a good one or are you a bad one? And what do you do with the scripture?

That you have read? Have you hidden it in your heart? Which is what you said you did: that the Lord brought these things to you. Your mind, um Logan, for you, when you have dealt with several surgeries in your life and chronic pain, what are the verses that you have recited to yourself over and over as you've literally been laid up in bed for weeks, months at a time. Wow.

Well, the one that comes to mind, the one I've been clinging to this year is Romans 15, 13. But in other past times, because the pain is always there and the pain always drives you to the Lord. And, you know, I've figured out all the end times. I figured out all of, you know, I memorized Revelation. I mean, so I'm doing massive things all in the scriptures is what I'm doing.

If I can't get out of this bed, this is what I'm going to do now. And of course, I run everything by her to make sure I'm doing it right. But Romans 15, 13 was very incredible this year. And it is, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust him. And so I that was taken back by that verse.

And I'm in pain, I haven't slept in weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks. And I'm in meditating on that. And I'm going to trust you. I've said, and I went like this to the Lord. I said, I'm going to trust you no matter what.

I'm going to trust you. And I was, because I was in such pain and so tired. Yeah. And the next night, that night, I mean, that night I slept. And I said to my husband, I said, Was he waiting for me to say that?

Yeah. Maybe he was. Yeah. Maybe he was waiting for you to say.

So that has taken over my life because the no matter what can be horrific, it can be heartbreaking. It can be painful. It can be treacherous. It can be anything. That no matter what is so, can be so scary.

So that is my verse. It is in me. It is, and I tell it to everybody because it's like whatever happens to you, you cling to that because then the supernatural power of God of hope fills you with joy and peace that has nothing to do with you. Yeah, yeah. You know, we don't, we don't know.

We don't know what lies ahead. Yeah, it's his supernatural power. You're in the midst of something horrible. Let him do the work. And all of a sudden, that's what C.S.

Lewis always says, you know, surprised by joy. You know, surprise by joy. But that's because he's the God of hope who fills you with all joy. Yeah, not just a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, Milmore, you taught me as a very young girl the importance of scripture memorization. And I remember you used to actually tell all of us grandkids, I'll pay you money for every chapter that you memorize and you can recite before me. I'll pay you money. And now as a mother, I look at that and I'm like, What what a Perfect way to use your money because you know, kids want the latest whatever it is, and And you are saying.

You can earn this money by having something that's going to last you your entire life. And I remember I was probably a teenager when you. Started memorizing James. And so I started two or three years ago taking my kids through the book of James. And we memorized all of chapter one, most of chapter two.

And when my dad died, and when our baby died, James 1 is what we quoted to each other over and over and over again. And it was just. I loved the fact that it talks about considerate all joy when you encounter various trials, knowing. That the testing of your faith produces endurance. It's not hoping that it produces endurance, you know that it will.

And so if you have genuine faith in the Lord, Those trials are for our good. And they don't feel good. It's not something that we would ever choose. You know, we're not going to say, God, if you want to run me over by a semi-track, I'm up for that today. You know, that's not something that we choose.

Buy it. When you know scripture and when you see his character woven throughout, You can trust him, like you were saying, Logan, because you know who he is. He's the same God yesterday, today, and forevermore. And How have you guys each used your scripture memorization in Counseling that's come up, maybe counseling that you weren't expecting to do when someone calls you and says, Dolores, such and such just happened. My marriage is failing.

I need to talk about it. You know, you weren't necessarily, you hadn't been studying all week to counsel her. How valuable was your scripture memorization? in those times. Because when you Memorize it, it's like you eat it, it becomes part of you.

And The hope That is in the Word of God. is there to anybody that comes near me. and has any kind of a problem, Those scriptures come back out. Because they're part of me. Yeah.

What about for you, Logan? If you have people come to you unexpectedly and say, I'm going through this hardship, how have you found that having it memorized has uniquely prepared you to counsel people effectively?

Well, it says you don't need a thesaurus. You don't need to look it up online because it's in you. And so, depending on what the problem is, they tell you what the problem is. And the Lord just says, okay, use that verse you did in 1 Thessalonians or use that verse you did, you know, in Colossians. And you literally, the Holy Spirit guides you to just give them the scripture because we got nothing important to say.

We got nothing important to say.

So it's really kind of cool to sit there and listen and go, help, Lord, help. And pretty much, and that's what she and I do all day long. You're talking about dependence. I mean, we're dependent on every step we take. We can't take a step on our own.

So we are worshiping every moment because we are dependent on him every moment. But it's so exciting to see the Lord just kind of move and go, give them that scripture. And they go, Wow, that's great. You know what's neat about that too is that it gives us a confidence in counseling or a confidence in. Walking alongside other people in their trials because sometimes I think people avoid.

Walking with people or even having a conversation when they know that somebody is going through a really immense trial, whether you've lost a child or you've lost your job. They don't know what to say. And so they say nothing. And that's not how that's not how we want to Love one another within the body of Christ. That's not being the effective hands and feet of Christ.

And so when you have scripture memorized. You have this confidence because, like you said, Logan, it's not your own feeble words that you're just regurgitating that really has no wisdom to it, but it is the endless wealth of wisdom that comes from Christ alone. And his word, what would each of you say, since you each have kind of walked through some somewhat different trials? I know that more and more you have had seasons in your life where you have dealt with pain too, with MS, but you've dealt you've walked through different trials.

So, how would you encourage people that are walking through those trials right now? Mm. Mm well, when I found out that I had multiple sclerosis, Uh I asked the Lord to Just Be my partner through it. And It was so wonderful because The Lord never says no. He always is willing.

to come alongside and lift you up. and carry you. And that's what I had to have happen. There was nobody that really could understand because I didn't even understand all the things that were happening to me with MS. It's very.

is a very strange disease and or whatever it is called Ah. and it acts on your mind as well as your body. But you know what? This was so great because I would take a portion of scripture and memorize it and live in it. And I would live in it.

And that's the difference because when you live in it. God gives you hope. And that hope Uh makes you stand straighter. Makes you be stronger. It gives you enjoyment.

Hope is joy. It is joy. People would say, I mean, I talked to so many people. I went into the hospitals and talked to people with MS because. Their mental attitude was taking them down.

And I knew that if I could talk to them, about the Lord and talk to them about Um Crane and And talking to the Lord in a in a optimistic way. such as, Dear Lord, just help me get through to day Help me have a good attitude towards everything that happens to me. And I would talk to these people. I had a lot of friends, actually, that had MS in the hospital. Wow.

Yeah, because. Because they were going down the hill and you can't go down the hill with MS. If you do. It will take you down faster. And so the scripture is what kept you up?

Oh, totally. The scripture is the thing that. Totally kept me up. Yeah. Totally kept me up.

We've said in the family for a long time, Wilmar, I think you probably know that we say this about you, but it's good things. But we talk about the fact that. with MS being something that is a neurological disorder. The Lord has protected your mind and your sharpness so much. And is it okay for me to say, real quick, how old you are?

Because people aren't going to believe it. Can I say that? She looks amazing. She's 94 years old, and you can hear how sharp she still is. We attribute that to your hiding of God's word in your heart because you kept your mind sharp.

On his word, and God, God has been so gracious to protect your sharpness of mind. You have been a wealth of wisdom to us for. Many years, all of us grandkids, you know, we've gone to UN pop-up and You have been someone that has Really, I mean, you've stood by my side through all of this ministry stuff. You've been the person that helped me know. How to walk alongside people because you had a compassion for them because you had a passion for the Lord and for His Word, and you see that.

So, Logan, I would say the same question to you as we continue this episode for our podcast and our YouTube: is what What would you say to somebody that is experiencing chronic pain? What would you say are some of the most important verses? They probably are not in a place where they could memorize a whole chapter. It's overwhelming, as you know, when you are in chronic debilitating pain. What would you say to day?

Take this one. Take these two. I know you already mentioned the verse in Romans. Do you have another one for us?

Well, I mean, you know, it's Colossians 3: set your heart on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. And I always say, especially with your, when you're in pain, or even look at if you're a mother of four, you don't have time. Yeah, your time is all very different. I mean, do one sentence a day. That sentence will fill you all day long and all night long through everything.

Set your heart on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. And then you sit and go seated at the right hand of God. Whoa, whoa, well, that's amazing. You don't even have to do the whole sentence. And you just meditate on that and worship the Lord and just praise Him for thank you for being seated there and being in control of everything.

And thank you for having the authority over everything. I don't have to worry about anything. Oh, I forgot. You know what I mean? And that one scripture could just spend all day and bring your children in on it.

You know, bring, you know, do it out loud. Yeah. One more. I want to touch on another thing, too, that you and I had talked about a little bit. On the phone, and you both can weigh in on this.

But the importance of because here we are, three women talking about scripture memorization, and it's so important because, just as we've seen with you and me more and more, it becomes a legacy. You pass it down. As women, we tend to be the ones home most with our children. We tend to be the ones, if you're a grandparent, you're usually the one being asked to watch them. If you're an auntie of Hogan, then you're asked to watch the kids sometimes and you can pour into them.

But what I want to discuss is how important it is. For men, for the leaders of our churches, the leaders of our families to memorize scripture. Can you speak to that a little bit? Wow.

Well I don't know exactly how to speak about that because. Um Your grandfather Really didn't want to do that. And he don't rap pop pop out more. I know, but But the problem is The good thing is, I was able to say my scriptures to him over and over and over. He had to memorize them whether he liked it or not.

I think he did.

Well, and Pop-Up read, and not that you didn't, you did, but Pop-Up read scripture a lot. And so he did internalize it, even if he didn't memorize it in verbatim form, like you guys did. But being able to memorize scripture and internalize it. That's how we lead our families, especially when you're in a time of crisis, because. You and I you and I discussed this one more the other day, the fact that So many men are They're left to lead a family through heartache and suffer their own grief.

And they're largely they're largely not met with the same tenderness, the same camaraderie that we are as women. And yet here they are the cornerstones of our family. They're the ones that have to remember the truths that God has said in his word and pour those out to their families in the most vulnerable. of times How would you say are some ways that we, maybe, you know, I know that there are gonna be some people that are listening that say, oh, I'm not a good memorizer. I'm sure you've had people come to you say, I'm not a good memorizer.

What do you say to that?

Well, they usually can memorize music. They usually can always, they know the songs from their childhood.

So, you know, we know that they don't understand what they're saying when they say that. Because everybody can memorize something. They memorize their phone number. They memorize certain things in their life that they have to do in order to survive.

So it's a question of getting it to a place where it's easy enough for them to get victorious in it.

So that's why I always say, let's just do one sentence a day. I mean, that's how I memorize books. I do one sentence a day, and the next day I do the second sentence. The third day, I put the first and the second sentence together. You know what I mean?

And it's slow. They always put pressure on themselves thinking, I can't do it, I can't do it, because they want to get it done. And they don't understand that, look, if it takes you a year to do a chapter, who? Come on, it doesn't matter. Yeah.

Well, and when it takes you that time, you're ruminating. On it all that time. Uh another way sometimes when I have really been uh, deep in sorrow, and sat in church, And read the uh song we were going to sing that morning. Ah, what an encouragement it was. And I think that sometimes if they can just get uh what do you call it the one uh the thing that we the book that we sing out of you know Yeah.

Hymnal And Can go through that. Oh my gracious, that gives you. And some of them you can kind of hum as you go through them, but they're beautiful and they give you such encouragement. Yeah. Well, and it's important to know how you learn.

Some people can learn by listening. We don't do that. We're visual.

So if you're a visual learner, that's going to be different how you do it.

So you got to encourage them to find out.

So how do you learn? Do you learn when you're just listening or do you learn? You have to see something written down. Do you see colors? You know, sometimes, you know, we put the first initials, you know, kuwami sil, cowardly, unbelieving, abominable murderers, adulterers, sorcerers, immoral persons, and all liars.

You know, it's kuwami sil. You make up words and then all of a sudden you have that phrase and it's in your fingers and it's in, you know what I mean? It's a million different ways. Logan, you gotta figure out. How long did it take you to memorize Revelation?

Well, it took me about a year. And the sad thing is, that was 14 years ago. It took me about a year. The sad thing is, I've done Matthew 24 now, just finishing up. It took me about a year because Matthew 24.

More is the outline for Revelation.

So that's the last thing Jesus did before he went to the cross, outlined the book of Revelation and the whole end times. And so I said, Well, I guess I'm going to, I got to do Matthew 24. I didn't think, no, it was going to take because it gets harder when you get older. Yeah. When you're young, get it all in there.

I'm glad I did so much.

So, anyway, that's um. Yeah, I mean, I so appreciate you guys coming on because it's this is so important for people to understand the value of, as I put it in the intro, going into battle with armor on. And that's what the word of God is: it's our armor, it's our armor to guard our joy, to guard our hope. To, you know, as you put it, Momorn, Logan, I feel like you kind of touched on this a little bit in what you just said a moment ago. But when you know scripture, when you know who God is and how He works all things together for His glory and our good, it takes us out of that circumstance and places us on the high hill so that we can look down on our circumstances instead of being surrounded by.

by them. And one more, I will never forget you telling me that. And um I think that that is such a beautiful I think that was I think that's in Habakkuk. Is that correct? Habakkuk.

You know, I think it is too, but I haven't looked it up recently. Yeah, it's either Habakkuk or Zrepaniah, but I think it's Habakkuk. And. That has stuck with me for probably eight years. I think you told me that eight years ago.

And What a beautiful thing for us to think about when we know who God is, when we know who holds tomorrow. We don't need to be afraid. We don't need to be afraid of what illness might come our way. what might be taken from us in this temporal world. We, and it's not an easy thing to do, but we can have open hands before the Lord and say, Lord.

It's all yours. I know that you are trustworthy and you are good. I've seen both of you too, when I categorize you as worshipers. It comes from your knowledge and your understanding and your love of God's word. Because we don't know how to worship God.

If A, you're not worshiping the one true God because you've made something up in your mind because you don't know what scripture says about him, or B, if you have not taken the time to know how. He desires to be worshipped. And You both have spent many, many years studying the Lord and studying His Word. I can attest personally with each of you what a blessing that is to those around you. Um What a blessing it was to have you guys on the show today.

Oh, thank you so much, Emily.

Well, I love you. I love you both. And I have to give a little mini shout out here to say happy almost 75-year anniversary. One more. So here you see the grace of the Lord full circle.

You know, here you were praying out to the Lord and in that hospital room, not knowing what the Lord was going to do with your husband, and you trusted him. And it doesn't mean that trusting the Lord always gets us the outcome that we desire. We can trust him even when it doesn't go that way. No matter what. But what a beautiful.

What a beautiful grace of the Lord to have given you 75 years now with that man that you didn't know would see tomorrow. Oh, I know. It's wonderful. We praise him. Yes.

I love you both so much. Thank you for coming on Hope in the Morning today.

Okay, thank you. Take care, Emily. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Yeah.

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