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Well, welcome back to Rising 365, a podcast dedicated and committed to inspiring and supporting

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others to embrace the opportunity to rise with each new day.

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Rising Daily can be a challenge for many and it has been for myself.

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And I hope that what you hear in these episodes will assist you in rising every day of the

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year.

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Well, if you're just tuning in, you are tuning into the fourth and final episode of the Atticus

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Effect entitled It Just Takes One.

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So it's been a couple of weeks since we closed the live production of To Kill a Mockingbird

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here in central Nebraska.

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And it was such an honor to be a part of a show that as we stood there the last day of

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the show, which was a Tuesday morning because we were doing shows for local students here

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as myself and the rest of the cast stood there on stage before we went back and got ready.

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We're all just reminiscing about what we all went through to get to this point, the late

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nights of rehearsal, the five other straight days of shows that we've been doing.

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And when we all looked at each other, we all agreed that this was a show that we could

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do in day in and day out.

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It wasn't because who was standing there.

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Yes, each member of the cast were so talented and amazing, but it was because of what To

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Kill a Mockingbird means.

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The lessons learned in this show and in this book transcends time.

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It addresses things that even though the show was set in the 1930s, written in the 1960s,

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that we all still face here in 2024.

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It addresses racism.

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It addresses not fitting into a community.

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It addresses what people think about you and how that affects you.

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It addresses single parenthood.

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It addresses gossip.

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It addresses everything that we face continually day in and day out.

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But at the center of it all is Atticus Finch, a one person willing to not allow the circumstances

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to define who he is.

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That's why this four part series is called the Atticus Effect.

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And we're closing with that it only takes one because that's what I want you to walk

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away with.

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And it takes just one person to make a difference.

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Maybe you've never had that person in your life, but it's time for you to be that person

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for yourself in your life.

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You know, there's some amazing quotes of great people who have done great things.

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One that comes to mind is Mother Teresa says, I alone cannot change the world, but I can

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cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

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And then John F. Kennedy says, one person can make a difference.

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And every person should try to be that person to make a difference.

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What would it look like if our communities had that mindset that they set out each day

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to show kindness, to be patient, to be a person that brings joy into an atmosphere?

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The amount of change we could see in our community and in our very lives.

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It could be you.

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If you are a Christian today, we are told in 1 Corinthians 11, one that we are to be

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imitators of Christ himself.

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And look what that one person did.

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He went and he stood in the gap.

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He no longer allowed religion to socially isolate individuals.

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He showed how to love and to care and to listen.

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If we call ourselves Christians, we should be the same.

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We shouldn't be led by denominations.

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We should be led by Christ alone.

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I'm reminded of Ezekiel 22, 30.

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It says, I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge.

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And I stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy.

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But I found none.

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Sadly, we are overcome by fear.

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Sadly, we are overcome by what other people are going to think about us.

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My response to that is who cares?

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The only person we should care about who thinks about us is one ourselves because we live

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with ourselves.

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And two, it's Christ and God himself.

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We should strive each day that the end of each day he looks down and he can say to us,

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well done, good and faithful one.

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You tried your best.

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You showed kindness.

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You did the hard things in life.

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Striving to make a difference even in the smallest ways.

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So how can you be the one?

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You need to look for ways to simply display the fruits of the spirits.

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If you're not familiar with them, you need to look for ways to be loving, to be truthful,

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to be patient, to be kind, to be hospitable, to be forgiving.

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You need to look for ways to show goodness and to be gentle, display self-control.

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You need to be faithful and truthful in all things.

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Each situation is going to require a different fruit from you.

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And if we slow down enough, we can allow that fruit to manifest out of us through the help

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of Christ himself.

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We want to honor him.

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In Luke 6, 43, Jesus is teaching about the fruits of a tree are known by what flows out

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of them.

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We want nothing but good fruit to flow out of us.

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We have to be around and take in only good fruit.

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And the world doesn't offer that.

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They offer a lot of like self-help and look out for only you and don't worry about what

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other people think.

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Even if it offends somebody, it's okay.

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But the truth is that's not right because that is like a rotten apple in a bin.

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Obviously that rotten apple is going to make the other apples rot.

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We have to constantly be being filled up by God's word.

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That's where goodness comes from.

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That's where patience comes from.

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That's where every fruit of the spirit that I just shared comes from.

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And that's where you being the one person can make a difference.

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We are in a world full of self and we should be living for others.

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Once that is captured and taken hold of, you can face anything.

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Rising won't be such a struggle because as soon as you feel the light of the new day

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in your room, you're like, man, I have an opportunity today to make a difference.

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We're just one person and you're going to seize that opportunity.

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You're not going to want to waste it.

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That is the big takeaway of the Atticus Effect.

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Being that one person that people could look to and be like, you know what?

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I want to be that person that does what's right.

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I want to be that person that people trust in.

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The people, when I say something, they know it's truthful that they can depend on.

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I know it can be a lot and you and I can't do it alone.

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That's why when we find our strength from Jesus himself, he gives us everything we need.

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We are promised he will give us our daily bread.

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He knows exactly where we're struggling and he knows how to strengthen us.

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He'll never give us more than we can handle and he'll be with us every step of the way

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if we allow him.

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So that's my encouragement to you, the listener.

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That you be that one.

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Stand in the gap.

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Stand up.

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Stand tall.

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Allow your fruit of the Spirit to show and use it to make a difference in others and

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in your community.

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Well, thank you for tuning in.

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I hope each episode brings you inspiration to embrace every new day.

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Until we meet again, I'm Mike Pina reminding you to rise and seize the gift of a new day.

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You are destined for this moment.