The Life Challenges Podcast
The Life Challenges Podcast
Numbering Our Days
This episode explores the necessity of recognizing our mortality through the lens of Psalm 90, emphasizing that numbering our days leads to a more purpose-driven life. The discussion focuses on themes of wisdom, relationships, and the impact of our actions, encouraging listeners to embrace and maximize their time on earth.
• Importance of Psalm 90 and its connection to life and death
• Modern society's detachment from the reality of mortality
• Wisdom gained from understanding our limited time
• Critical reflection on relationships and the legacy left behind
• Practical steps for living purposefully and meaningfully
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On today's episode. Think or do. Life will not go on just as it is. We will decline and die, and so will all the people in our lives.
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Speaker 1:Hi and welcome back. I'm Krista Potratz and I'm here today with Pastors Bob Fleischman and Jeff Samuelson. Today we are going to be talking about this concept of numbering our days, specifically talking about our time on earth and also as we look to the end of our earthly life too. It does make us maybe think okay. So basically, you guys are just talking about death on this episode, and maybe you know that doesn't seem very upbeat during the holiday season here too, but in terms of New Year's we tend to look back at the year past and then also looking forward to the next year, and so we thought that, okay, this episode, we hope, kind of ties into some of that too. The inspiration where we do hear numbering our days comes from Psalm 90. So, jeff, do you have maybe a couple other thoughts on that and then able to read Psalm 90 for us?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Psalm 90 is traditionally associated as the psalm for New Year's Not every church, not every celebration or whatever, but it's very common there. It's also very commonly used as the psalm for funerals and as we read through it you'll see why there are obvious connections there. But even with that, it's important to remember that funerals and memorial services, they're not really for the person who has died, because that person isn't there has died because that person isn't there. Those services are for the mourners, the people who have been the living, people who have been left behind, and that's why what the Psalm talks about is just really something we should be thinking about Now.
Speaker 2:Psalm 90 is the heading tells us it's a prayer of Moses, the man of God. This is the only psalm written by Moses that is in the book of Psalms, it's really in the Bible, and it really is an appropriate topic for him because those years that he spent in the wilderness with the Israelites there was a lot of life and a lot of death and they spent a long time in the wilderness and he and everybody with him got to see it all. So it's definitely something that would have been on his mind and heart a lot. So just reading Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations, Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world. From eternity to eternity, you are God. First part there is God's perspective on time is sobering. We're talking eternity, but then he moves in, talking more about man's mortality. You, referring to God, grind people to dust and you say return. Children of Adam For a thousand years in your sight, are like a day, like yesterday that has gone by, or like a watch in the night. You sweep them away like a flood. They are like sleep in the morning, like grass which changes quickly In the morning it sprouts and grows, by evening it is cut down and withers.
Speaker 2:Surely, we are consumed by your anger and by your wrath. We are terrified. You have laid out our guilty deeds in front of you. Our hidden sins are revealed in the light of your face. For all our days pass away under your fury. We finish our years like a sigh. The days of our lives add up to seventy years or eighty years if we are strong. Yet the best of them are trouble and sorrow, for they disappear quickly and we fly away. Who can understand the power of your anger? But your fury is consistent with the fear that is owed to you.
Speaker 2:And then we switch to the prayer. Teach us to number our days in such a way that we may bring a heart of wisdom, way that we may bring a heart of wisdom. Turn, O Lord, how long. Change your mind toward your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with your mercy, so that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. Let your deeds be seen by your servants and your majesty by their children. May the kindness of the Lord, our God, rest upon us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands. And that last part we don't know how many years we have, but make them good ones. And that very last thought is make what we do worth something, and that's going to apply at every part of our lives, not just at the very end, but the work of our hands. That's what I'm doing today, right now. Establish that as well.
Speaker 4:I mean, it's an incredible psalm. I know we do talk about it at funerals a lot, but it really is a reminder about how you live, more so than how you die. There's a psalm also that talks about you know, remember not the sins of my youth. It's a lament, almost from someone who's learned from Psalm 90 that the turn of the year you know we get to December 31st. Yeah, I don't know about you guys, but I'm always thinking about I wish I had planned to do this, I had planned to do that and so forth. How many of those plans that we lay out for the previous year really reflect what's being talked about in this psalm? Are we looking to establish a name for ourselves or a name for God? Are we looking to do His will or our will? I just cringe, even though I enjoyed the movie. I cringe at the concept of bucket lists. I've never been a fan of bucket lists. This idea that I got to do these things before I die.
Speaker 3:Why.
Speaker 4:You think something later is going to be worse than what you've got now. You know what's coming because of God through Christ is incredible. He's already accomplished your ultimate bucket list, but we get kind of lost in it. And that psalm reminds us and I've tried to. When Jeff was reading it, I was trying to imagine Moses writing this. You know, during that kind of that last part of his time in the wilderness, he doesn't enter the promised land. He saw a lot of life and he saw a lot of death. He saw people get lost in the part and he recorded those notions. And so, like the words that stuck out for me was the one that says you know for gaining wisdom.
Speaker 4:What wisdom are we talking about? This is not just knowledge. A lot of people you know know a lot of things and are not very wise. Wisdom talks about a spiritual maturity that you recognize. It builds you up. So if you have to turn the other cheek, if you have to walk the extra mile, if you're willing to rejoice in your sufferings, the wisdom the world gives doesn't equip you for those times no-transcript.
Speaker 1:The psalm, I mean, as you were reading it too, jeff, I just felt like, wow, this is really. This just is worded so well and just very encompassing, and then how it ends with the prayer too. So, because I mean it's talking about how our days are full of suffering and it leads you to think, oh okay, think, oh okay. But then it does end in a way that is hopeful too and talking about the work that we can be doing and that purpose too, and so I just felt like, oh, put together so nicely too. Most people, most Christians today, don't really spend time thinking about our lives and the passage of time in the way that the psalm does. Why is that?
Speaker 2:Well, there's a tendency, especially in our modern world, really to just live as though our lives will just keep going on and on as they are, and this is reinforced in all the advances we have in science and medicine and technology. They've enabled us to live longer and live healthier lives, which just kind of encourages this thing, that inattention to the eventual end that we all have to face. And just one little aspect of that why do we call the businesses that we all have to go to when a loved one dies a funeral home? Well, it's because these things were always centered in homes, not in separate buildings and businesses. And that was because originally the common practice was when someone died, you had the visitation or wake, or whatever you called it, in your home. It was right there staring you in the face.
Speaker 2:You could not avoid dealing with this. But these days people die in the hospital or the hospice. They get taken from there to the mortuary, from the mortuary to the funeral home, from the funeral home to the cemetery and then buried, home to the cemetery and then buried. It's a lot easier to avoid thinking about this aspect of how things change when you're not confronted with it face to face. And that's in early ages. People simply had to deal with this stuff a lot more, and they don't have to do that quite so much these days.
Speaker 4:Jeff's right in that If you look at, like the Mideast, even today, if there's been a death, 24 hours later they're buried and everybody. You have to deal with it, you have to process it, you have to accept it. She would tell me stories about when her grandmother had died and she was in the coffin at the bottom of the stairway, you know, at the foyer entrance to the house. And it was just reality. You face it. And today you know and I feel strongly, more strongly about this now than I've ever felt in my life that I've been bamboozled by our culture. I've been bamboozled by our culture. It gives you so much pleasure, so much luxury and comfort that you're beginning to say to yourself I don't really even want to die, I don't want to move on.
Speaker 4:So you begin to throw resources towards extending life and so forth. When this psalm says teach me to use my life in a valuable way, every Christian, every one of us, should be asking ourselves what does this mean? What does this mean for me, what does this mean for all of us? You know, we might say to ourselves well, we support a ministry, we go to a church, we've got a good pastor, we pay him a good salary, we take good care of him. He's getting that work done. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're missing the point. This is for all of us.
Speaker 4:So how do we calibrate our lives? And the way you calibrate your life is you come to grips with what your life is supposed to be all about, and it is not supposed to be about your job, it is not supposed to be about your spouse, it's not supposed to be about your children, it's not supposed to be about all the toys you can gather, all the vacations, all the bucket list items, getting them done. You have a greater calling. God said you take care of the greater things, I'm going to take care of all these other things, and you've got to take him at his word.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you know it's just very common. I mean, I even find myself kind of thinking this way too, sometimes Like, yeah, I want to go to heaven, but just not now. And I think that is true for a lot of believers too. It's like, well, you know, and I mean some of it stems from when you know that you go. Then you know, I mean obviously, like if I were to die tomorrow or something, I mean I'm leaving my children behind and so like I like that saddens me, like to think about that or something. You know, like that, and I mean that's kind of how we think, like with losing loved ones too. And so I think there is this sense, like in the Christian community too. It's like, yeah, I mean heaven's awesome and amazing, but none of us have ever been there, so we don't really know what it's like. And then we just kind of get so into the day-to-day and what this world can offer.
Speaker 4:You know, I've always been struck in the Scriptures about the story of the transfiguration. There's so many questions that come out of that story for me, the disciples knew who they were Moses and Elijah but they weren't called out. They were fully whole and yet certainly by this time their bones had to have been dust Time, the arid climate and all that kind of stuff we actually have evidences of. You know, I sometimes have said in the Bible class you know how would you like to have been Lazarus, to have died and then brought back to life on the fourth day? You know, it's like I kind of liked it where I was, and yet somehow it isn't an issue.
Speaker 4:We probably have more clues about death than we care to admit, but we live in a culture and a society that has us ever so focused on the here and now. And I know this sounds like I'm getting to be an old person, but I read the obituaries every day, partly because I'm fascinated by what people write. It just strikes me to this day why, out of all the money you're going to spend for the obituary and of all the things that could be said, you want the world to know that you were a Packer fan.
Speaker 4:I mean if you lived it that way, you don't even have to tell anybody. They should have known. But you get stories like that and so forth and then once in a while you read the story of a seven-year-old that dies, a child that dies, even an adult that died at a young age, and at some point in the obituaries someone's going to write they died too soon. Somehow we got to get out of that notion. We got to get out of that notion in light of what Christ did in death and instead the focus should shift for Christians into but how did those seven years go? How did the life go? I just read an obituary yesterday or today about a child that died, that had congenital defect from birth on, struggled with it and so forth, and they talk about. But he was always a ray of, struggled with it and so forth, and they talk about, but he was always a ray of sunshine, always smiling, and so forth. It's how you live your life that counts.
Speaker 4:God has taken care of the death part. How do you live your life? What way are you glorifying God in all things? And it begins at home, it begins with mom and dad. And I look back at the turn of the year and I remember, as I was watching my daughters growing up and all of a sudden it kind of hits you when they miss a family event because they're visiting a boyfriend's family or something like that. All of a sudden you realize my goodness, all these years passed, what happened, and you live regret. You look back over the last year. I should have not been so harsh, I should have been more accepting, I should have done more, I should have spent more time or gone to more games. Why don't we think that way about God? If God said we are to glorify him in all things, if Christ left us an example that we should follow in his steps, how well did we do that? You know, the inventory we take of our life is not just relational as far as with the people we love. It begins with the ultimate relationship we have with God and in light of what he's called us to do.
Speaker 4:In hindsight, how did we do? And in planning, what do we plan? What is our New Year's resolution? Is it always about losing more weight? Is it always about clicking off another thing on your bucket list? Is it always about making it to your grandchild's sporting event, or have you set your sights higher and when you do that, it begins to permeate down to the children, and I will tell you, as a grandfather, that one of the most gratifying experiences is to see a little something that you did, that focused your eyes on God, and to see that reflection in your children and grandchildren later on. Those are the things that matter. Why? Because if all I was worried about was them being a track star and they break their leg or they ruin something in their knee, I'm not sure that I accomplished all that much. Set your sights on things above.
Speaker 1:Thinking of the psalm too. Why is it important really, or maybe even necessary, for Christians to consider their mortality?
Speaker 2:Holy Spirit obviously wants us to do. It breeds humility in us. We realize we're not as strong and powerful as we want to think. We are A sense of reality. No matter what we want or think or do, life will not go on just as it is. We will decline and die and so will all the people in our lives. It moves us, as the psalm demonstrated, to confession and repentance as we consider wasted time and opportunities and improper attitudes towards have left for ourselves and time with others. And it should inspire and is a commitment to make the most of it. Just as much as we prayed that God would establish the work of our hands, our hands have to be in activity, we have to be doing something with them, and this should even lead us to love and service toward others, as mortality catches up to them, and we see it for what it is and we don't treat it as something that just could never happen.
Speaker 1:When we talk about numbering our days too. I guess what really is that and how do we do it?
Speaker 2:do we do it? Well it's. I mean, obviously we cannot say, oh well, I know I'm going to die at age 91 and three months and therefore this is how many days I have left. Obviously we can't do that.
Speaker 2:We don't know those things, but what it means is that we're going to aim to be the best possible stewards of our life and health that we can be. We recognize I only have so many days left. I don't know how many they are, but I need to make the best use of them, to be the best steward of them I can be. And then practically that may mean, okay, I have to make some changes, maybe my diet, maybe how much I exercise, maybe what I actually spend my time on, whether it's work or play, or time spent with family or friends or whatever, or time spent with family or friends or whatever. Practically, it means we're going to start making preparations for the times when we cannot do the things that we can do today, and we might even be moved by numbering our days to help the people that we love with those things if, for whatever reason, they're not able to do so themselves and if they allow us to help them with them.
Speaker 4:I wonder how many people who well, let me ask this you know if you're listening to this podcast. I want to ask just a hard question is why Do you know all the things you could be doing right now instead of listening? Well, the reason you go back to this podcast, the reason you go back to that spiritual book, the scriptures, an author that you enjoy and so forth, is because you're looking to hold on to an approach to life when all the forces of hell are fighting against you. There is everything trying to pull you off track, and sometimes that everything is blatantly obvious, like clearly bad TV program, god condemning movies and so forth. But sometimes it's someone close, someone that likes to act like they got your best interest, but really they want to get you to be thinking about life in this world.
Speaker 4:All of us are engaged in a process of constantly fortifying ourselves and our faith. So when you are numbering your days, you recognize that this is a process. Scripture tells us at any time the Lord can call your life and under any circumstance. All of us have had loved ones that we've died over a lingering process or loved ones that we've died suddenly a lingering process, or loved ones that we've died. Suddenly they were here and they're gone and we try to process it. And so we recognize that. But that I like the way you worded it, jeff. It's like we don't focus on death, but death focuses us. And so you remember that I'm here today. Maybe not here tomorrow, don't really know.
Speaker 4:Someone once said it's a phrase I've heard a number of times you live each day as if you're going to die tomorrow and you face death knowing you're going to live forever. You just recalibrate and I'm going to tell you that it is harder than the dickens to recalibrate in our culture. And I'm always haunted by the words in Revelation I think it's 3.15 or 3.17, the words of the church at Laodicea. First of all, it's to the church, to the believers, the Christians, and they say you say I'm rich, don't need a thing, you don't realize you're pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Speaker 4:And I've read that and read that for many years and all of a sudden I realized that those words could be written to me when you focus on the wrong things, if you think your prosperity is somehow the measure of being in God's grace, those people in Laodicea, they said I'm rich and I don't need a thing. And he said you don't get it, you've totally missed it. As we number our days, we really are looking at ways that we communicate. What is most important, what is the hope that I have in my life? What are the things that I stand for and doggone it. It better be, better than just being a fan of the Green Bay Packers, I mean you know Well, you're really knocking the Packers.
Speaker 1:I don't know why.
Speaker 4:I mean I'm a big Packer fan. I read these obituaries and they get to the point of I mean I actually keep obituaries of how silly someone is. I remember during the Obama campaign, obviously a staunch Republican had died and he wrote his own will and he said for a memorial gift, I want you to support all causes opposed to Obama being reelected.
Speaker 4:So this is what you wanted to put in your obituary, and so I think, when people are listening to this, maybe that might be a pointer. How do you do this? If you were to write your own obituary, what would you write? Would you write about the sports teams that you favor, the causes in the world that you stand for, or just how much you love your children and your family? Or is there something even greater than that One?
Speaker 1:of the things too, I think, like we've talked to. I mean you just, you kind of go through life for most of the time and you're just not really thinking about death, and then you know something happens, maybe like this the week that we're recording this, earlier this week, was the school shooting in Wisconsin. And when things like that happen, all of a sudden you do think about the value of your life more and what you're doing in your life. And I remember like the day after that my husband came down to the basement and was like oh, you know, did you hear about, you know, the thing yesterday? Yeah, you know, he's like all right, you know, gotta, gotta make sure to hug the kids before I leave. It's like, well, you do that every day. I mean he does, and stuff too. But it it, it refocuses you a little bit.
Speaker 1:And, and I too remember feeling, I mean I think too, sometimes, even just when somebody close to you dies, and I mean it doesn't have to be anything that you were directly involved in, but there is some type of almost survivor's guilt with that too. I mean I just remember thinking when my dad passed away too, like okay, I mean his time was up. God called him home. God hasn't called me home yet I'm still here. Why am I still here and my dad isn't here? And that really was something that just really hit me. And so I think there's these moments in life, too, where this concept of numbering your days does hit you stronger than other times.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know, after 9-11, there was a spike in church attendance, there was a spike in families getting together and so forth, because people were just reminded of the fragileness of life. And it's interesting because, you know, we deal with a terminal illness in our family and as we're dealing with that, you sometimes feel like an island, like why is this happening? How can this happen to me?
Speaker 4:Well, I don't know you know there's what seven, eight billion people in the world, and the world is how old? And you start, you know, crunching the numbers. Well, that's how many times this has happened, that people have had to confront mortality, and it's a reality. And it's what makes Christ so incredible the biggest, common, most devastating tragedy you encounter he's handled already. And so that's why, in light of that, you number your days. You say how am I demonstrating my appreciation to that?
Speaker 4:You know, when I was in high school, I remember reflecting back on responsibilities, younger in high school, like freshman, sophomore, and I remember someplace in some class, there was some talk about taking care of parents as they get older. And of course, I just thought my parents moving into my house? No, I want to get out of the house. You know, this is like it just seemed like the worst thing. And yet when I got out of the house, I missed my parents, I missed having them. I remember committing to them after I was out of high school and said I'll take care of you as you get older. And so in 2000, when we built our house, we built a house next to us. That's where my parents live. To this day they live there.
Speaker 4:So you start asking yourself why. Why would you do that? When I tell that story to people, they tell me I could never have my parents live next to me. They'd drive me crazy, they would you know all sorts of things like that. So why? Part of it is gratitude.
Speaker 4:I look back at my parents. I look at their backgrounds that they had, growing up, incredibly hard backgrounds. My mother lived in the Netherlands during World War II. My father grew up in a hard home, experienced a lot of hardship, and yet they were incredibly loving, incredibly helpful, incredibly hard. And so you show appreciation.
Speaker 4:Now let's raise that up a notch. No matter how good I am, no matter how much money I give, no matter how many poor people I help, it would never be enough. And at the moment I die, it could be horrible, just terrible horrible. Except God said I'll solve this one for you. I'll send Jesus. I can look at my parents and say what I do for them is gratitude. So now you look at your Savior and you say as I number my days, does gratitude come out? Would it be recognizable? My parents recognize gratitude. They tell me all the time You're loving, you're caring. They do that. But I sometimes wonder does God get the same signals for me? And I think it's worth asking those questions introspectively in light of Psalm 90. Have we communicated that message to the one who did the most for us? And I think it's a good place to start and, quite honestly, the question should drive you crazy. It's the kind of you know. If you get introspective, you're waking up with it every day.
Speaker 1:You know, one of the things too and I mean Jeff's pointed has pointed this out to me here through just working on this episode a little bit too but one of the things that really comes across in the psalm is the plural, where we're talking about numbering our days and we're talking about your servants and there's, you know, we and us and that type of thing. Just as kind of a neat way of thinking too, that this is more than maybe just about my days, numbering my own days, but also looking at the days of others.
Speaker 2:Here too, worth asking and maybe, as we're at the tail end of this holiday season, ask how many Thanksgivings do I have left with my mom and dad or grandma and grandpa, or, on the other hand, inside of it, how many Christmases are left when my children will be home and with us for those holidays? How many anniversaries do I have left with my spouse? How many of your grandkids birthdays will you be around to celebrate?
Speaker 2:And these are not meant to make you think of terrible sad thoughts or anything like that. It's just like okay, yeah, the answer to any of those is not an infinite number. How am I going to adjust my priorities in response to that? I was thinking it was really important this year to get away. And you know what? Let's take the kids and we've got this chance we're going to go to the Bahamas for Christmas this year. That'll be something really new and different. Maybe it will be, maybe that's exactly what you should do. But maybe you're also going to think, yeah, but how many more opportunities are we going to have to go to grandma and grandpa's, you know, for this? Because, yeah, maybe we'll make a different choice this year.
Speaker 2:You know and just, you know, these are practical things that you think about when you're numbering other people's days as well as your own, and you realize that our lives connect with other people.
Speaker 2:And it's just, you know, again, a very practical thing. It can be an emotional thing, but it's again part of this whole picture that we're dealing with the reality of the fact that life doesn't just go on forever, and we're also humbly accepting the fact that things don't exist just the way we want them to. We don't have the power over that. Thankfully, as Bob was definitely emphasizing, god is in charge and he's solved all the biggest problems and so everything else is just little stuff which he's also happy to help with. But there is a practicality to this in, again, not just the way we look at our own lives, but the way we look at the lives of those we love as well I don't know about you guys at our own lives, but the way we look at the lives of those we love as well I don't know about you guys Does it drive you crazy that he knows and he hasn't told you.
Speaker 4:I mean it just. You're kind of like, well, okay, it did.
Speaker 1:when my dad passed away, I felt like, wow, this didn't surprise God, but I could have used a heads up here.
Speaker 4:Yeah Well, and there is that side of us. But I think you know part of—one of the messages from this psalm is that you know, you recognize, you know it starts off on, basically, the sovereignty of God over all the earth. Like I like the way you talk about it's infinite, you know, the God being a day is like a thousand years. A thousand years is like a day. It's beyond comprehension. Okay, so you've got that kind of God, that's the God that we have. And so he says you don't have to worry, I know exactly when you're going to be done and I'll take you that time. And part of numbering your days is trusting that God knows, god knows, and so just contradicts, and don't you worry about it, I'll take care of it.
Speaker 4:Now, the other thing I wanted to say, too, is this idea of our, you know, thinking of others. I'm in the middle, right in the middle, of trying to comprehend the philosophy of Rousseau, and we're not going to get into details on it. But he had a view that your first love in life should be yourself, and then he said the second love of your life basically is a problem, because as you deal with others, they bring you down, they hurt you, they harm you, they're a bad influence and this is part of this conflicting philosophy going around. But I'm reading that and there is a strong temptation, in a world that's full of so many temptations and tragedy and stuff like that, to isolate yourself. But the mandate that we have in Scripture is to think of others ahead of ourselves, to always be concerned. So when Psalm 90 talks about that, we number our days. We do have a responsibility. Rousseau is wrong. You know, he was a secularist, thinking like a secularist. And we have a responsibility for others and the way we act does affect them. I can't control how they act, but I can control to some degree how I affect them and you become mindful of that.
Speaker 4:You're numbering your days because I maybe can't see grandma all the time, but I'm going to stay connected and we lose excuses as technology brings us along. When I was a kid you had the party line, so the best you can hope for is you can get your time on the telephone to talk to grandma presuming she had one. Then you could have your own land baseline. Now you've got cell phones. Now you've got video. You can video talk Pretty soon. I don't know where you can go from there.
Speaker 4:But you have all of these means to stay in touch. Do it, but do it productively. Use it not to just catch up on family gossip. Use it to also assure them that all things are well with you. That's another thing that bothers me. Just on going dark for a moment. You know, sometimes people will face death and they've died and you never really knew if they believed Jesus was their Savior. Minimally, you can provide that comfort for your family by wearing your faith on your sleeve, that they know where your value is rested, and so forth. I've performed funerals where the family will come up to me privately and say you know, I know he was a member of your church, but he sure didn't act like a Christian all the time. And I don't know, is that the epitaph you're looking for? I don't think so.
Speaker 1:I don't know, is that the epitaph you're looking for? I don't think so, but it's just good to realize that our days are numbered and that God, ultimately, is the one that knows how many more we have left, but is also able to help us with each of those days as well. We thank all of our listeners for joining us. We hope you have a happy new year and we look forward to having you back in 2025. See you next time. Bye.
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