Invisible Alignment

In this episode of The Charging Station, Tracey dives into an unexpected lesson in patience and alignment, all inspired by a simple morning routine. Through a personal story about the costly consequences of rushing through processes, Tracey explores the importance of waiting with purpose and trusting in God’s perfect timing. Tune in for a reminder that, just like a retainer keeps our smile in place, patience keeps our lives in alignment and prevents us from veering off course. If you’ve ever struggled with slowing down and embracing the wait, this episode is for you!

Chapters

• 0:23 Aligning With God's Vision
• 7:47 Learning From the Retainer Lesson
• 21:02 Preparing for Life's Small Adjustments
• 38:45 Spreading Love and Inspiration

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:23

What's good everybody. Welcome to the Charging Station. It your girl, tracy Massey of Living my Empowered Life. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what's going on? If you are a returning listener, welcome back, boo. You know I love me some. You. Thank you for joining me for the shenanigans on the couchy couch. Once again, if you are new here, welcome. I'm so glad to have you here. I don't take it lightly that you could be doing anything, listening to anybody, but you're lending me your ear. For this, these few moments, these precious moments. I thank you and I hope that you come back. I hope you stay. I hope you become a proud member of the power squad. That's who we are over here.

Speaker 1: 1:05

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Speaker 1: 3:02

So I'm in my bathroom right and I am getting ready for the day, doing my skincare routine, saying my affirmations. Got my worship music playing in the background. It's a whole vibe in the mornings. I have a whole morning routine. I can share my morning routine with y'all on the socials if you want. Just let me know. But I'm getting ready for the day and I go to take my retainer out.

Speaker 1: 3:31

So if you don't know, if you're new to me, I've had braces three times. Yeah, yeah, and I actually got braces when I was in my 30s because my mom could not afford braces. So I had to walk my entire childhood with these teeth that I was very self-conscious about. So when I got in a position where I had some good insurance and was making you know I'm starting my career and everything when I got in a position where I could get braces, I got them and I was 30. Was I 30 or 31? I was in my early 30s, but I got braces for the first time and I got Invisalign. Now, why did I have braces three times? I'm just going to go ahead and give you all the gist of why, and we'll go into further. You know you'll see how this plays along.

Speaker 1: 4:29

But I got braces three times. The first time, great, everything was groovy. The second time, there was a fire in my old apartment complex. One of my neighbors was playing chemist, from what I was told, and it blew up. They blew up their apartment and my apartment was right next to theirs Like we shared a wall, and so at that time I was getting ready to go somewhere. So I had my retainer out on the counter and because of the fire and the smoke, damage and the soot, the firemen were like no, you got to throw this retainer away. You can't, we can't clean it, we can't, we're not gonna have let you put this in your mouth or whatever child.

Speaker 1: 5:13

I was trying to save money. I know, I know, I know who would want a sooty retainer anyway. But I was like y'all don't know how much I paid for this the round. Y'all was over 5 Gs. Okay, thank God for insurance and healthcare savings, flexible spending accounts, okay.

Speaker 1: 5:32

So I had to call my orthodontist and say, hey, I need a new retainer. And what happened was they couldn't get me in for like a month happened was they couldn't get me in for like a month. Well, since they couldn't get me in in like a month, my teeth were like, woohoo, we free. So by the time I got back to the orthodontist, my teeth had shifted and had started to move back to their original form. So I had to get braces, and this time we got wire braces. So I had to get braces, and this time we got wire braces. So I had to wear that for like a year and then, the third time, I lost my retainer. So I only had one one retainer at the time and I lost it. Come to find out years later, when I moved, I found that thing behind my couch. But again, because I couldn't get into the orthodontist office for like a month, I had to wait and when I got there they were like, yeah, we're shifting again. So now we got to get the braces again. So that was the third time.

Speaker 1: 6:37

So why am I telling y'all about my braces? Because this is what God had to show me while I was standing in the bathroom removing my retainer to brush and care for my teeth. What he showed me, I am going to share with you right now. You might, you might, want to go ahead, grab your coffee, grab your tea, grab your water, grab your wine, whatever your beverage of choice is, bro, go ahead and grab it and have a seat right here on the couch, because this is about to get deep a little bit, all right. So here we go. God showed me through my retainer what alignment looks like and the cost of alignment the cost of nobody seeing you being aligned, the pain of alignment and how invisible alignment can be. Baby, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. I know you're trying to digest that, I know you're trying to digest that. How did I get all this from taking my retainer out of my mouth? All right, then let's go.

Speaker 1: 7:47

So I had to look up the definition of the word retainer, because I love words, I love definitions, I'm a little bit of a nerd. I love to study stuff. This is the kind of stuff that fascinates me. Okay, so go with me, and I know this kind of stuff fascinates you too, because you wouldn't be here. We vibe, we're similar, so you enjoy the stuff too.

Speaker 1: 8:06

So the definition of the word retainer not the retainer that you do for an attorney or to retain services from somebody, but a retainer is a thing that holds something in place. So remember when I said I had braces three times, every time I didn't wear my retainer or couldn't get to the orthodontist to get, you know, aligned again, my teeth were shifting back to its original form, that retainer that I wear faithfully now, if I sound funny right now, it's because I'm wearing it. That retainer keeps things in place. That retainer keeps my teeth from shifting back to its original form, which was misaligned. It had gaps, huh, girl. So this retainer, though it's small and it's clear, you can't really see it unless you like looking directly into my mouth or you don't even know I have it on unless I pronounce my s is a little different. You know, sometimes, when you, when you first put the retainer in, you're gonna, you're gonna sound a little funny, but very few people hear it. You know, excuse me, because the longer I wear my retainer, the less the speech impediment is heard and unless you have a trained ear, you won't hear it. This is good to me. I know I haven't said much yet, but I know I'm looking at my journal, because I have my journal sitting right beside me because when I tell you, god was dealing with me on this little piece of tool to keep my teeth straight. I was just like blown me on this little piece of, this little piece of tool to keep my teeth straight. I was just like blown, like blown.

Speaker 1: 9:47

So the retainer holds my teeth in place after having braces removed. So let's deep dive into this now. The braces were there to correct something that was not formed correctly. Now I had my original teeth, my original smile had a gap, and I remember just specifically having my first encounter with the tooth fairy. I'm doing air quotes I really need to do video so y'all can see my animated self but I remember my first encounter with the tooth fairy and how the tooth fairy left me some money, okay. So I figured out you know, I lose my teeth, then I get some money, right, kid logic. So when my front teeth became loose, I was like, okay, y'all not falling out fast enough, so I decided to help them along by trying to pull them out. In me doing that, trying to rush the process of what was naturally going to happen, I ended up making my gap worse and so my front teeth actually had a gap and then they kind of like scooped up to where they were, like poking out of my gums. It was a mess, child. It was a mess. I should have never done that.

Speaker 1: 11:11

And that's kind of like how we do in life. We know that there's a natural process to things, but then we rush the process, we get ahead of God. We have our Abraham-Sarah moment. You know, when God goes to Abraham and says you're going to be the father of many nations, he even gives the same word to Sarah that she's going to have a child. And they're old, like in their hundreds, and Sarah was barren. So they go to rush the process and Sarah tells Abraham you know, why don't you go lay with your handmaiden? You know she's good and fertile. This is Tracy, this is Tracy's version of the Bible. Okay, go and lay with Hagar, your handmaiden. You know she's good and fertile. Go ahead, knock her up and we can go ahead and get this process going. And that's how we do.

Speaker 1: 12:01

God gives us a word. We don't sit down and we don't pray. We don't ask him. You know, is this a now thing? Is this a later thing? Like, what do you want me to do with this? How do you want me to handle this? We just say, okay, bet, yeah, we got this thing, so let's go ahead and get it done Because we feel like God's timing isn't right and my mentor tickles me when she says this, but it's the truth. God is the slowest on time. God, the slowest on time, god. He does not move in our time, ever and never will. One second to us is a thousand years to God. So sit down somewhere and be patient In your waiting, wait with purpose, wait and work. That's a word, that's a podcast for another day, but anyway, so we go and we rush this process.

Speaker 1: 12:48

So in me rushing this process of my natural teeth falling out, I messed my teeth up even more Because my gap with my baby teeth it wasn't that big and it probably would have closed on itself on its own, naturally would have closed on itself on its own, naturally. But because in my kid logic and looking at thinking like getting this money, this money so I can go to the candy store, get me some candy, I rushed the process and paid for it dearly later in life. And I learned in this moment with God, where I was just taking the, my retainer out of my mouth my new retainer, actually, because I got some new one, but my new retainer out God was showing me all of this like this stemmed from when I was a little girl, like I lost my teeth when I was what? Seven, eight, I don't know. I'm somewhere around there. So the thing about having this retainer if I don't wear it, I run the risk of my teeth reverting back to their original state. That's what happened when the fire happened and I couldn't wear my retainer, couldn't see my orthodontist for a month, the second time when I didn't wear it, the third time when I didn't wear it, and then not being able to get back to the professional who could actually assist me. That time span of waiting.

Speaker 1: 14:16

It costs me even more and a lot of times that's what we do in life as well. We don't go back to the one who created us, the one who has all the answers. Let me tell you something my relationship now with God is totally different than my relationship a year ago. It's totally different than my relationship 10 years ago, 20 years ago. It has, it's continuing to evolve.

Speaker 1: 14:43

One reason being is because I sit in the face of Holy Spirit. I listen to Holy Spirit. Now, I'm not saying that I'm perfect y'all, because sometimes I'd be like, yeah, I don't know, I'm just being honest. I'm just being honest, but Holy Spirit is there to lead, guide and direct us, to comfort us, to teach us. And whenever I listen to the one who created me, who has all the answers, who knows my beginning, middle and end, who knows and will give me an expected end, he has thoughts of peace and prosperity towards me. He knows his thoughts towards me. Why wouldn't I listen to them? So whenever I don't listen to Holy Spirit, that's when it costs me so much, and it's it's not just monetary stuff, y'all. It costs me peace, it costs me time, even though God is the redeemer of time. A lot of times we get out of place because we just won't listen and we have to be like the children of Israel walking around in the wilderness, in the forest for 40 years, when it was an 11 day track on, track, track, walk. And A lot of times we're a lot like the children of Israel because we're on this 40-year journey, because we're complaining and murmuring because of the decisions that we've made.

Speaker 1: 16:09

This is not here to bash y'all. I'm actually not talking about you. I'm talking about me. I know for a fact there are things that I should have never gotten into, but I did it because I was doing it out of my own will. I know for a fact there are things that I should have never gotten into, but I did it because I was doing it out of my own will.

Speaker 1: 16:25

And the one thing I love about God he's very much of a gentleman. And God has this permissive will and his perfect will. His permissive will will allow you to get that thing that you're asking him for, begging him for. He knows good will is not good for you. He got something better for you. If you just wait, but because we want it so bad, god's like, all right, I'm going to give it to you. And then we get it and it's like, oh, this is not what I really wanted. But even God, in his grace and mercy, will still love on us when he gives us that permissive will.

Speaker 1: 17:00

We just got to walk through that process a little bit longer. So sit down somewhere, tracy. Sit down and just listen to the one who created you and knows all okay. And you know, like I said, I can't talk about you. If that fit, you insert your name where I said Tracy. If that fit you, okay, because I can't. I ain't talking about you, I'm talking about me, I can't talk about you. So back to this retainer and this whole word God was giving me. And let me just say I'm so glad I didn't have a lot to do that day because I was able to just sit and listen to God and write what he was saying and just soak all of that in. Because if I had to be somewhere that day, I don't know what I would have done. I would have been late, that's what I would have been. I would have definitely been late.

Speaker 1: 17:48

So this process the first time I got Invisalign. It was exciting because I knew the end result was going to be beautiful. But, just like life, sometimes we don't know the end result and that process can be painful, it can be ugly, it can be scary, but the thing is you have to keep faith in knowing that, whatever the process, the outcome will be beautiful. You know, nothing compares. The suffering of this present time does not compare to the glory that will be revealed later on. We may not like it, it may not feel good, but, baby, that glory is worth it. Ask me how I know glory, it's worth it. Ask me how I know.

Speaker 1: 18:44

So when I got the Invisalign the first time, I went in and they scanned my teeth because they wanted to get the. Well, actually, the first part of this process was removing something. So I had a tooth that I had to have removed, I had my wisdom teeth removed, I had some spacers done because some of my teeth were crowded. So it was that pre-work. That pre-work, before we got to the work, was the thing that was like yo, do I really want to do this? Do I really want to do this? Do I really want to do this? And I laugh at that because I remember God telling me I'm probably one of the few people that know like have seen a glimpse of what my future looks like. I saw this years ago when I was in my 20s. I'm in my 40s, pushing 50 now, at the time of the recording of this podcast.

Speaker 1: 19:39

So a lot of things that I've done in my life. I now realize that I was excited and rushing the process because God promised me this thing right here and I want it, like I'm excited about it. I want it. So there are some things that I've done in my life. I'm like I'm rushing the process and it wasn't worth it. It set me back, it set me back, it set me back.

Speaker 1: 19:59

So, yeah, don't do that Trust the process, but that pre-work was having me think, huh, I don't know if I really want to do this. Is this worth me going through to get this smile that I'm dreaming of, that I envision, so that pre-work almost took me out, vision, so that pre-work almost took me out, because I don't know if y'all, if you've had work done on your mouth. It's something about that dental work that is just like, yeah, I actually, when I leave from recording this episode, I have to go to the dentist right after this because I cracked my tooth and I have to go get that fixed. So I'm not looking forward to it. Y'all pray for me. Okay, I don't mind going to the dentist, it's just that after thing, and, and as much money as I spent on these teeth and the processes I've had to go through, um, I want to keep all my teeth in my mouth, so I'm going to go. I don't like it mouth, so I'm gonna go. I don't like it, but I'm gonna go. Anyway, I digress.

Speaker 1: 21:02

So we get the pre-work done out of the way and I go in and they scan my teeth because they need to get an accurate account of what my my teeth are looking like. So what they do is they send that original scan off and they give you they. Your first trays come in. So the trays come in based off of the progress. So I think I change trays every eight weeks, if memory serves me correctly. It may not, because this has been a long time ago, y'all. So this is with Invisalign, and remember, I've had traditional braces, the metal braces, and Invisalign. With the Invisalign, the first time they scan your teeth, they send your scans off. Your trays are custom-made for you. With that customization, my trays will not fit anybody else's mouth but mine.

Speaker 1: 22:02

Okay, here's what God showed me, in that you know how we get caught up in social media posts. We look at other people's lives and you know we may sometimes get sad that we may not be in the same position or better, or whatever. Their life was custom made for them. Your life is custom made for you. If you try to do something that they're doing, it may not work, because God has not put his anointing on you to do that. He has not graced you to do that. So, instead of looking at somebody else's life, you can be inspired, because there are a lot of people's lives who inspire me.

Speaker 1: 22:51

There's many people on social media who inspire me, but at the end of the day I realize that they're showing me their highlight reels. I don't know what they've had to go through to get to where they are or maintain where they are. I don't know if they're happy. I don't know if they have joy. I don't know nothing except what they show me, and that's the thing about invisible alignment. Nobody knows that I've had braces three times, unless I tell them. Nobody knows the process that I had to go through to get the smile that I have today. Nobody knows. Nobody knows what I have to do to maintain the smile that I have today. And I'm not. I hope y'all are catching this, because I'm not just talking about my physical smile, like my teeth. I'm talking about my spiritual smile, my mental smile, my emotional smile, my financial smile. Nobody knows the things that I have to do to maintain what God has given me.

Speaker 1: 24:07

In the church we say you have to be a good steward over that, what the Lord has blessed you with, and that's true. That's like for my car, for example. Every once in a while I have to take it to go get an oil change, because if I don't get an oil change. It could lock up my engine and it's going to ruin the car. I got to buy a new car.

Speaker 1: 24:29

That's like, think about it like that with your life, the things that you have, you have to take care of them, whether it be your body, whether it be your money, whether it be your mind, your health. I can't sit here and eat pizza every single day and not expect to not gain weight or my arteries begin to clog up. I'm not putting anything healthy in my body. I'm not moving. I'm not doing things to maintain, like right now, me being on Fit, fine and Fabulous by 50, where my goal is to drop this 100 pounds and be in the best shape of my life by the time I turn 50 years old. It's work. It is work, but you have to remember and believe and constantly tell yourself and affirm that you are worth the work. And if I want to stay where I am, then I need to maintain what I've been doing and when it's time for me to elevate, I got to change that script a little bit.

Speaker 1: 25:27

So back to these trays. That first tray when I got it I was so excited until I put it on it on Good Lord from Zion. When you get new trays y'all they hurt because they're adjusting, they're shifting your teeth to the new position're uncomfortable, but after a few days you adjust and you don't feel the change. You don't feel that pain anymore. And one thing that my orthodontist would always tell me with the new trays, rub some oral gel on your gums. That helps alleviate the pain.

Speaker 1: 26:24

Even with the metal braces the traditional braces you have to go in and get them tightened. I used to hate going and getting my braces tightened because, again, it's a small adjustment but it hurts, and that's the invisible part that people don't see. It's a small adjustment but it hurts and that's the invisible part that people don't see. People don't see those small changes that hurt you but they bring the greatest reward. And how do you prepare for those small changes? Again, I really hope y'all are getting this. Whenever I knew that I had to get new trays or go in and get my braces tightened, I would take Tylenol before I went in and I would have my Orgel with me ready to go, because when they did the tightening, rub my gums okay, rub my gums.

Speaker 1: 27:16

So how do you prepare in life for the adjustments and the small changes, baby, if you're not reading your bible, if you're not studying the word of god, if you're not praying, if you're not fasting, you're not going to be prepared. Like think about the way the world is right now and be funny if it's like 200 years from now. Somebody comes across this podcast and they see this. I hope, hope it encourages them, I hope this is encouraging you. But the way the state of the world is right now there are wars, rumors of wars, there's fighting, there's panic, there's chaos. There's just so much happening.

Speaker 1: 27:54

But I'm going to tell you who's not fazed by it? Me why? Because the way I sit in God's face, I pray every morning when I get up. I pray throughout the day. I pray before I go to bed. I have my own little Bible studies. I fellowship with other Christian women who give me encouraging words. I give them encouraging words. This is how I fight my battles. I did not mean for that to come out, it just did.

Speaker 1: 28:27

I thought about the song, but this is how I prepare. It's that pre-work Before the chaos, the destruction, the crazy comes. I'm putting myself in a position to where, if it comes not even if when it comes I'm I'm shaken but I ain't stirred Because I don't want people to think that just because I stay, you know you stay with God that it won't impact you. It will, but the way that it impacts you. It doesn't impact you the way it does other people. You may weep, but you don't weep with despair, you weep in hope. So again, the new trades hurt, the new adjustments hurt, but it does not compare to the glory that will be revealed.

Speaker 1: 29:25

Not wearing my retainers on a regular basis costs so much. Not maintaining like not staying in the presence of God, costs you so much. You'll get involved with people that you shouldn't. Your discernment may be off a little bit. I can't tell you how many relationships I got in that I wasn't supposed to be in because I did not consult God first, whether it was a romantic relationship or a business relationship, jobs, whatever. If I'm not consulting God first, then I'm getting myself in some trouble, and a lot of times it's not even a bad thing, it's just. Sometimes God will will give you like you'll be presented with two great things good, really good offerings. But are they a God thing? Is it in God's timing?

Speaker 1: 30:15

Right now, like for, I was presented with a really great job offer, really great. It was something that I dreamed of doing. It gave me the opportunity to move abroad. It gave me the opportunity to see the world travel, like things that I really, really, really, really wanted. And I accepted the offer and as I was preparing to leave, god told me no. He told me no. He put the kibosh on it real quick and I was like what am I going to do now? Because I had quit my job of 16 years, even though I knew it was time to go. I just, you know, I thought I had this, this job, lined up. So I quit my job of 16 years. I had given up my apartment, packed up my stuff was putting things in storage, selling things, like really preparing to move. And God was like no, mm-mm, if you do this, this is what's going to happen if you do this. And with God showing me that, it scared me and I was like okay, I got to quit, I can't go. But remember when I said I quit my job and I gave up my home, I had nothing to go back to.

Speaker 1: 31:37

But in the midst of that, you know what happened about six months later COVID. Covid happened and the area where I was traveling to was shut down. First, I wouldn't have been able to get back to the United States. I would have had to stay in this foreign country and they have visa laws, they have requirements. So God knew. But if I had consulted him first before accepting the job and completely rearranging my life, I would not have been in the predicament that I was in for two whole years.

Speaker 1: 32:17

That invisible alignment Nobody knows the cost of it. So and when I say the cost, again, it's not just monetary things, even though sometimes the money is attached to the cost of things. But if I tell you how much I paid for these braces y'all, all three times, you're going to be like girl dedication. I have a used car in my mouth. Yeah, that's why I'm like I'm gonna keep these teeth all right.

Speaker 1: 32:52

So people again, people don't see my retainer unless they're really looking closely at my mouth. So people won't really see the small adjustments you make or the differences that you have, the shakeups excuse me, the shakeups that you have in your life, unless they're looking really closely at their life. And honestly, some people do, some people don't. I had to take a sip of water yall, sorry, my voice is getting my throat is dry but some people really look closely at your life and some people don't. I was at lunch a few weeks ago with some friends and I got so tickled because the one of my friend's daughters is in college and she got new roommates and one of her roommates told her that she has her life together because she has matching pajamas and we thought that was hilarious because we were like that's what it takes. So all the pajama sets that I have and my little calf cans honey, I be fancy when I go to bed.

Speaker 1: 33:51

Sometimes my life is together. No, no, and I say that my life is not together because I'm forever changing and evolving and growing. There are some parts of my life that are really good, some parts are not, and those are the parts that we're working on. But unless somebody is close to you, they can't tell. When you've made an adjustment, whether it be small, and trust those small adjustments. That tiny alignment creates big gains. That end result will be big, because if y'all look at some of my pictures from back in the day when I had that gap, and you see my smile now, you'd be like yo, your Adonis was a miracle worker.

Speaker 1: 34:40

Don't y'all talk about me like that. Don't y'all talk about me like that Don't do it. And all of this comes back to the fact that God knows, all, sees all. He loves us, he wants what's best for us, he knows what's best for us. But we get so bent out of shape sometimes because our process looks different than somebody else's. Our journey is different, our healing is different, our lives are different, but yet our lives are tailor-made, custom-made for us. And if we finally get in the position where we're thinking about yo, nothing can separate me from the love of God, and he loves me so much that he took his sweet time, he did his big one on me.

Speaker 1: 35:45

When you start getting into that mindset, you'll forget about what everybody else is doing. It won't even concern you, it won't bother you, it won't even make a difference in your life. Again, you can be inspired, but that inspiration isn't required. There are parts of my life where I inspire myself, like I look at all the things that God has brought me through by going through my old journals or looking in my gratitude journal, like just thinking about things that God has done in my life. Or if I'm having a quiet moment and Holy Spirit will bring back to my memory some of the things, it's like, wow, you really love me like that, like you really rock with me like that. So when you start looking at your life as inspiration, all this other stuff won't even matter, and that's my prayer for you.

Speaker 1: 36:40

I pray that your own life inspires you and I really hope that you do find some inspiration in your life, because some of you I do know who listen are dealing with grief, you're dealing with depression, you're dealing with heartache. You're dealing with some really heavy, heavy things. But I pray that you will find one thing about your life that inspires you. I am a trauma survivor and one thing that I'm inspired about in my life is the fact that all of this trauma has made me so resilient. It has made me empathetic, it has made me love people, in spite of what they do or say. I'm going to love you and I appreciate my life even more because of the things that God has brought me through. So I pray that you are inspired by your own life. I pray that you find joy in something so small. Just make a small adjustment and see what the Lord will do for you.

Speaker 1: 37:57

So I know I kind of talked in parables. So I know I kind of talked in parables, but I really hope that you found something inspiring in this message and I really didn't go into great detail because, again, I have my journal sitting beside me and there's so much more that I can say, but a lot of it is personal and I just don't believe in putting my personal stuff out there until you know God says so. So I'm not released to say this right now, but you'll see it. I may not say it, but you'll see it, but I really do hope that this and other episodes inspire you. I pray that you continue to come back and listen, because we do have a good time over here and, as always, I just appreciate you all.

Speaker 1: 38:45

You know I'm thankful. I'm so very, very grateful, so very thankful, excuse me, for God allowing me to have this platform and I know podcasts are a dime a dozen now there's so many of them, but I pray that I continue to put out good stuff and that it helps you, because if I don't have nothing inspiring to say, I ain't gonna talk. Okay, but that's it for this week, y'all. I hope you come back next week and just join us here on the charging station, here on the couchy couch. Again, let me know if this episode helped you in some kind of way, but always remember God loves you, I love you. It ain't nothing you can do about it. Boo bye.