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Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life, a brand new week of life. Happy Monday, my friends, the final Monday in the month of October. We have four days left in this month. Let us not waste these four days. Let's show up. Let's live well. Let's finish October right.

The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast is,

You've been tricked. When my kids were little, they could count on receiving a handmade card

and a little money in the mail every holiday.

Their great grandma was world class in investing into their lives even with a long distance

relationship and it's now part of her legacy that has outlived her.

One particular holiday, instead of receiving the typical dollar or two, each of my kids received a $20 bill in their card. And the kids were

so excited and couldn't wait to go shopping. But one of my kids would never make it to the store to spend their money.

There was some trickery going on.

My oldest son of my three kids, he was born two years before my middle daughter, I'm sorry, one year before my middle daughter,

two years before my youngest daughter.

They're all born right in a row.

My son's the oldest.

And Logan was born to be a businessman.

He sees opportunity and he capitalizes.

And the boy has always been pretty darn slick. And he saw his naive,

youngest sister with $20 and nowhere to spend it at the moment. So he moves in for the sale.

Logan gathers a collection of his broken, useless, unwanted old toys. And he says to Paola,

pow, you can have all of these toys, all of this right now, for $20. And it looked like so much to her.

And even more importantly, it looked like something she could have

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