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Do you ever wonder how you will remembered in life? Just what kind of legacy are you leaving? We all need to make changes on how we are spending this precious time on the trail of life. In this episode Judy shares some wisdom found in ancient Native American pictographs and the scriptures about "Redeeming the Time"
Hope to see you on the trail.
Transcripts
Hello, friends.
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:This is Judy.
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:Welcome to the Creative Spiritual
Journey, where Guy and I walk with
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:you for just a moment on this journey
of life and share with you the things
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:of our hearts and the joys that
we are discovering along the way.
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:We talk of Christ and the beauties
and mysteries of nature in hopes
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:to shine some light on your way.
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:Our fellow travelers, we love you.
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:It's May, and We're coming upon
Memorial Day in the USA, a time
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:we gather at our loved ones' grave
sites to decorate with flowers or
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:candles to remember and honor them.
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:I usually place a heart rock
on my daddy's headstone.
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:Traditionally, the President of the
United States will place a wreath
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:on the tomb of the unknown soldier.
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:It's a time for remembrance of
those who have gone on before us.
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:We all wanna leave a legacy,
a life to be remembered.
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:Recently, Guy and I and our husbands
were backpacking in the Bears Ears
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:National Monument, and on the walls,
these beautiful canyon walls, are hand
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:prints, petroglyphs, and pictographs of
an ancient people that lived this land.
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:It, to me, was like an ancient memorial.
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:I was here, a soul much like you and me.
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:They loved.
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:They were married.
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:They gave birth.
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:They died.
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:They had wars.
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:They hunted for food.
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:They searched for water.
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:Life was important to them, they
had joys and sorrows and fears and
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:laughter and heartache just like
you and I, and they too wanted to
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:leave a legacy and be remembered.
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:I think it's fascinating
how it is, it's there.
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:Time has stood still, and we may not
know their names, but we do realize
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:and recognize the sacredness of their
life . So we all wanna leave a legacy.
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:This makes me think of a song that I love.
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:It's called "Legacy" by Nicole Nordmann.
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:The chorus is, "I wanna leave a legacy.
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:How will they remember me?
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:Did I choose to love?
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:Did I point to You enough
to make a mark on things?
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:I wanna leave an offering, a child
of mercy and grace, who blessed
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:Your name unapologetically,
and leave that kind of legacy."
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:Have you ever thought about that?
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:What kind of legacy are you leaving?
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:What kind of heart walls, are
you leaving handprints on?
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:We're all aware of how
precious this time is.
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:It's a commodity worth more
than gold and earthly treasures.
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:We just recently celebrated
my husband's 70th birthday.
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:Wow!
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:Where did that time go?
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:You know how it feels.
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:One minute you're 20-something
and you feel like you have
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:all the time in the world.
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:You're so busy raising a growing
family, building a career, and
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:trying to eke out some time to get
away to create lasting memories.
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:And suddenly life happens and you're
60-something, and then if you're
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:lucky, 80-something, 90-something.
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:Each one of our journeys, our time on this
earth is precious and is measured to God.
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:Our prophet, our belated
prophet, Russell M.
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:Nelson, said, "The length of
your life is not as important
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:as the kind of life you live.
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:For each of us, even a hundred-year-old
man, life passes quickly."
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:he also said, quote, "In the
contents of eternity, this life
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:is hardly a nanosecond, but what
a crucial nanosecond it is."
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:A nanosecond.
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:See, I told you it's like
time is moving so rapidly.
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:That's what I wanna share with you today.
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:It's about time
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:The prophet Alma in the Book of Mormon
taught us, "Now whether there is
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:more than one time appointed for man
to rise," meaning the resurrection,
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:"it mattereth not, for all do not
die at once, and this mattereth not.
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:All is as one day with God, and
time is only measured unto man."
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:Time is only measured unto man.
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:This makes me believe that time is
part of this mortal journey's test.
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:So how are you doing on your mortal test?
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:I've never been very good at testing.
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:How about you?
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:Have you ever heard of the
term redeeming the time?
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:I came across it lately in one of my
morning studies while seeking answers
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:and strength to know how to fulfill
the demands upon my time, especially
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:when my weakness is ADOS, attention
deficit oh shiny, or oh squirrel,
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:depending on what environment I'm in.
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:I was reading in Helaman 16 verse 10,
"Walking more circumspectly before God."
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:What does that mean, circumspectly?
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:I looked it up, of course.
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:Latin root word is to look around,
to look carefully at how we live and
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:behave, to live, act, and make decisions
with strict accuracy, diligence,
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:and awareness of one's surrounding.
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:So I can see how it's pretty important
to walk circumspectly before God,
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:but I love what happened next.
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:The Holy Ghost sent me on a treasure hunt.
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:Does that happen to you
when you go seeking?
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:In the footnotes of the definition of
circumspectly was another scripture,
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:ephesians 5, verses 15 through 17.
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:See that you walk circumspectly, not as
fools, but as wise, redeeming the time.
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:Because the days are evil, therefore
do not be unwise, but understand
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:what the will of the Lord is.
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:This redeeming the time means to make
the most of every opportunity, especially
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:for spiritual or godly purposes.
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:The phrase suggests that time is
a valuable commodity that must be
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:bought back or rescued from waste.
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:When we think of the word redeeming,
often we think of the Redeemer, our
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:Savior, and how He redeemed us from sin.
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:So for time to be redeemed, it also
needs to be rescued from waste.
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:We all have had those moments,
haven't we, where we get trapped in
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:the rabbit hole of media scrolling,
Netflix watching, game playing.
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:I don't know what your vice
is, but I have a story.
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:I have a parable that is
called The Eagle or the Hog.
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:It's a good reminder of how
are we spending our time.
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:It starts off with saying you can't
tell the character of an individual
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:by the way he does his daily work.
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:Watch him when his work is over.
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:See where he goes.
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:What does he do with his time?
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:When he may do as he pleases?
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:Then you can tell his true character.
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:Let's take the eagle, for example.
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:This bird works as hard and
as efficiently as any other
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:animal in doing its daily work.
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:It provides for itself and its young
by the sweat of its brow, so to speak.
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:But when its daily work is over,
the eagle has time on its own
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:and to do just as it pleases.
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:Note how it spends its moments.
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:It flies to the highest realms of the
heavens, spreads out its wings, and bathes
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:in the upper air, for it loves pure,
clean atmosphere and the lofty heights.
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:On the other hand, let
us consider the hog.
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:This animal grunts and grubs and provides
for its young just as well as the eagle.
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:But when its working hours are over
and it has time to do as he pleases,
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:observe where it goes and what it does.
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:The hog will seek out the muddiest hole in
the pasture and will roll and soak itself
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:in filth, for this is the thing it loves.
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:People are either hogs or eagles
when it comes to their leisure time.
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:So what are you doing with free time?
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:Maybe you're saying, free time?
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:What is that?
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:We all have free time.
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:Let's be honest.
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:And sometimes we find ourselves wallowing
in the mud and sometimes hopefully
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:we are soaring great heights and it's
the Savior that can redeem us when
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:we are covered in that mud, clean us
off and send us on our way to fly.
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:This redeeming the time means Living
with urgency, it is a call to live
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:intentionally, wisely, acknowledge that
earthly life is brief and uncertain.
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:Isn't that so true?
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:So also in my search for
understanding, I came across
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:colossians 4:5: "Walk in wisdom towards
them without redeeming the time."
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:Those that are without can be those
that are without hope, those who are
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:without food or clothing, those who
are without spiritual food, those
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:who are without friendship, those
who are without health and strength.
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:Those who are without can
be just about anything.
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:walk towards them.
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:This would be the will of the Father.
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:So friends, fellow travelers, I wanna
invite you to pray to know what is
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:the one thing you can start doing
today to become a wise woman who walks
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:through life circumspectly, to look
carefully at how we live and behave,
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:and be able to redeem the time.
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:One simple thing that you can do.
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:Also in my treasure hunt,
I came upon this prayer.
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:It's a beautiful prayer by an American
Trappist monk named Thomas Merton.
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:"My Lord God, I have no
idea where I'm going.
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:I do not see the road ahead of me.
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:I cannot know for certain where it
will end, nor do I really know myself,
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:and the fact that I think I am following
your will does not mean that I'm actually
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:doing so, but I believe that the desire
to please you does, in fact, please you."
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:Isn't that a beautiful reminder
that we just need to simply seek
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:out the will of the Lord today?
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:Walk towards them without
circumspectly look around.
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:There's so much beauty in your
life and so much to live for.
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:Leave a wonderful legacy.
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:You are leaving handprints
on people's hearts.
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:And your time here in this earthly
life, brief or long, is of great worth.
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:You are extraordinary
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:I love you.
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:Thanks for joining me, and
I'll see you on the trail
