 Okay, welcome back. Okay, so we were, we looked into frame of reference. Let's do a bit of practice. Okay. And what we're going to do is there are there are certain sentences statements taken out of certain counseling excerpts and just put that in here. How do you enter into the frame of reference? Okay, here again, please focus on first person responses. First person means you're talking, your sentence starts with, I mean, you're in a conversation with the person. Okay, so that's what a first person response means. So let's look at some examples and this is practice. So it's just for us to learn. So either you can unmute and or you can just type in what you, what you, you know, what your response would be. Okay, so the first one. I'm worried sick, I don't sleep well, and I'm afraid for the kids, we're so short of money, and my husband has started to drink again. How do you enter into the internal frame of reference? What would you say that helps the counseling know that you are responding or you've understood them or you have entered into their frame of reference as a counseling jargon. Okay, but what it means is just entering into their world. What would you say? Okay, this is examples. I mean, this is a practice. Okay, so Oh, you must be worried and fearful. Alright, so just quickly, some responses so that you know, you know what also refining your responses. So good job in understanding that they're worried and they're fearful, but it needs to follow with what they are worried or fearful about, because only when you're able to connect the two, are you able to initiate them into a further point of action. Okay, so something like, you know, you seem you seem really worried and fearful about the future of your family. Okay, so that is something that is or or you must be worried and fearful about what's going to happen in future or what is going to be the what is going to be about you tomorrow. So something that really connects to what you are fearful and worried about. That's a good attempt. Yes, dear, the situation looks challenging and I understand your concern. Okay, so here also get to she said I'm worried sick. Okay, so what would that mean? What would this I'm worried sick mean is that there's a sense of high levels of anxiety. There's maybe fear. There's a sense of she's also said, you know, I don't sleep well. We're short of money. There is a sense of insecurity that she has. So express that bring about those words as you are put putting that up. Okay. So someone said since when, dear, remember, we are talking about entering into the frame of reference. The questions have a place, but give it time. Alright, you want the person to really talk about what's going on. So express the feeling that they are trying to express to you rose. Okay, there's another response. I'm hearing you express feelings of helplessness and insecurity about your current situation. Great. Here again, feelings have come about, but you may need to identify one certain aspect of the situation. You feel helpless and insecure about the way that that that you know money is being spent because your husband's drinking. So that that's that's a situation that you may need to add in. You seem to be in a difficult situation. I would like to help you. Okay. So here again, the feeling you should try and assess what the feeling is. You know, maybe when we use words like it's difficult for you. It's hard for you. Yes, the situation is hard. But what we want to capture is the feeling. Okay. What you're telling me, what you're telling me is that you are very troubled about the welfare of your kids and your husband's drinking addiction. Okay, great. Okay. So what I hear you saying is that you are concerned, worried, troubled about your children and their addiction, his addiction. Okay, it's genuine. You are worried. Yes, it's hard to take. Do you have any thoughts on how you can, how we can solve this. Now, this is a good one. However, we have not spent enough time to it's called grounding, you know, to really help the person explore more of what she's feeling. We do not want to get into solution and solving right at the first minute or when they are talking. Okay. So you will want to spend some more time in having them express what else they are feeling and what else they're going through. And this comes later and you're moving them into action a little bit later. But remember that the first point of it is to establish that I have understood what you're really saying or what you're going through. And you need to play on that a little bit more. But excellent. Very good efforts. Anybody else? Okay, we'll probably move on to the next one. And you could try this one. Okay. So I hate it when the other boys tease me. Don't they realize I have feelings too? What would your response be here? I hate it when the other boys tease me. Don't they realize I have feelings too? Responses to this. So think about some feeling words. What are some feeling words you can use here? You feel alone because they don't understand you. Okay. All right. More than loneliness. Okay. This is a good one. However, I'm trying to figure out what is the actual emotion that he's talking about here. Do not worry. I will show you how to deal with them. Kennedy, I hope that was a joke. Okay. Somebody said, oh, that can be humiliating. I think it's what. Intimidating. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Good. So you feel intimidated when they when they tease you. Very good. Okay. Okay. There's it's immature not to think you it's sorry it's immature not to think that you have feelings. Okay. All right. This is more about okay. So what what here what you're stating is the feeling of the people who are teasing him. You want to focus on the person. So, you know, maybe rewording that is good. Okay. It's not good. Okay. Okay. So we got to be careful not to probably make like like a like a like a remark on whether what is happening is good or bad. Okay. But you can say that you sense that it is it's definitely not good because I know in this it sounds as if it's not good but you know there may be certain occasions to you it sounds really bad but for them it may be a good thing maybe not in this situation but so you got to be careful of how you respond to that. Is the counselor a male or a female. I'm I don't I mean I don't remember actually but yeah would that would that matter. Would would that matter to your response. Okay you feel people are insensitive towards you. Okay that's good. What you're expressing to me is that boys who tease you are insensitive to your feelings right yeah that's that's a good way. Okay, you are actually checking whether that's exactly the way that they're feeling. There is a feeling of embarrassment so yeah you may need to put that out in a in a sentence so that it really helps that's really inhuman and rude to tease. Okay now even again here it's from your frame of reference. Alright maybe it is true it's exactly what the person's feeling but it's it's it's more like a judgment that's being made but what we're looking at is to to to to elicit the feeling so maybe something that you feel that that was really rude or inhuman of them to do so so you're actually checking that. Does it feel because for you this sounds really inhuman and rude but you're attempting to check that with them so maybe a rephrasing that you know you feel that it may be really inhuman or rude that the boys are doing that to you. You feel that they've been insensitive to what you've been going through. Okay. Okay you feel hurt when others tease you and you feel these boys do not care about how you hurt how hurt you feel. Okay excellent very good. Okay maybe we'll take just one more example. Okay, we'll try this again. Damn it. The job is difficult enough without having to work with that lazy good for nothing idiot. Okay. Alright, so I'll read out some of the. I'm adding one or two of the things that we had someone saying you shouldn't be calling him names or even swearing that is a nice of you in the first place. Okay, there was one response like that that that we had. Yeah. What how would you like to respond to this. Okay. Yeah, how would you want to respond to this. You know, I think I just want to make a comment here recently something that you know there was a there was a client who a counselor Lee who sorry I keep using this because you know in our in our secular education it's always client client and apologies. Okay, so there was this counselor Lee who came to me and he's talking about some issue and he used certain swear words. Okay, and so you know you don't sometimes you don't even have to say anything because immediately this person said, I apologize you you appear like a person who doesn't use any of these words you're you always have very edifying words to speak I'm really sorry. This is not meant to you just showing you how frustrated I am, you know, so it's not that they are not cognizant about it when they use, you know, that language or when they use words as they're speaking. And that's one of the things that they are also aware of that, you know, so it's almost like a plea and even if I'm saying this please accept me for who I am. You know, don't take me for the words that I'm speaking. Right. So, yeah, how do you respond to this I just wanted to say that on the side. Yeah, last one come on. You feel your boss makes you do all the work and does not give you enough credit for it. Okay, very good. Very good. All right. Is it necessary it has to be his boss or her boss. Yeah, it could be anything. So, yeah, you may not really. I mean, the person may depending on you know your conversation you will understand but it could be anything. Yeah, it's difficult to work and handle this you must be irritated. Okay, very good. You seem to be stressed out. Okay. All right, so that a couple of things. Okay, you seem to be stressed out because your job is hard enough and you find it extremely stressful working with this person. Right. So, there are there are a couple of things. Okay, so I think you've got the flow. Right. Being careful to enter into the frame of reference of the individual so that you can respond from there. Now we're going to this is going to you know we're going to be really working a lot on this because this your responses are really what matters. Okay, Shay said what you're telling me is that you feel very upset with your colleague with the way he does his work right. Okay, good. All right, I like that Shay where you and that's something that you generally do is to your checking whether they whether you have understood them well. And that's why you would say you know what I hear you saying is this and is that right you know so and they say yeah absolutely you hit the nail on its head or you caught it exactly and that gives you the confidence that okay you've you've entered into their into their frame of reference. Okay, great. Okay, so let's let's move ahead. So, you know, as we work through through these through the through the counseling process we've spoken about the frame of reference. Remember we're now all that we are doing this this entire of understanding a frame of frame of reference goes along in whatever approach you use so in counseling or in secular counseling there are very many models that you one would use as they help in counseling. And one of the most frequently used model is the the it's called the rational emotive therapy or it's just called the ABC DE model okay just for easier ones easier understanding and this model is based on this idea that how you think how you feel. And how you act all interact together we did this partly in our class on emotional wholeness okay now and because this is this is something you know Paul talks about of renewing your mind. And it's just that people in the psychology field has just got some good name to that but the principle is very very is what Paul spoke about right renewing your mind. So what this model talks about is it is the thoughts that determine the feelings and thereafter determines our behavior, which again strengthens the same very thought so negative unrealistic thoughts can cause distress and result in problems. So when a person is suffering from some distress the way in which they interpret the situation becomes very skewed and in turn this has a negative impact on the way they feel and the way they behave. So this model aims people or even when you're working in in counseling to make people aware of when they make negative interpretations and how behavioral patterns will again reinforce this wrong thinking. So it helps helps them to understand and develop different ways of thinking and behaving which actually will help to reduce these the distress that they're feeling. Okay, so I'm going to help you with this model and we'll do a couple of examples as well so that you know we can understand this better. So when we look at this model it's called the ABCDE model. It represents a tool and this was created by a person by name Albert Ellis, which was to help counselors identify their irrational beliefs or self or the defeating thoughts that they may be having and how it becomes dysfunctional in them. Okay, so the ABCDE stands for it's an it's an acronym. Okay, so the A stands for an event for an activating event. It can be a situation. It can be an adversity. It can be a crisis in a personal relationship. It can be a development. It can be anything it can be a situation that happens. It can be maybe like for example the death of a person. It can be marriage. It can be what somebody says. It can be being put in a certain situation. It can be job dissatisfaction. It can be absolutely anything A represents any event activating event something that activates this process. Okay, the B stands for the beliefs. The B stands for the the way they think the person thinks about this certain event. So they there are we you know if you notice that there are certain beliefs that we build over over different things you know over over these events or an adversity there are beliefs that we have. And these beliefs can come from very many sources. It can come from your upbringing from your culture from your personality from the word it can come from many things. So it really depends on where the focus is. So any event brings about a certain thought and that creates a certain belief in us as individuals. So that's the B part of it. The C is the consequences. Okay, now these consequences it can be emotional consequences and these thoughts these beliefs that you have cause certain consequences. So a belief develops an emotional component after it gets practiced repeatedly. Okay, like for example, if you have a belief that you're good for nothing, it is going to bring about an emotional component of underconfidence. And when you practice this belief daily, it becomes almost one to another it gets related it becomes like a self fulfilling prophecy. Okay, the more that you believe that the more kind of consequence you're going to the more that you believe you don't have a con you don't have confidence that are going to be consequences that are exactly true to that. Okay, B is the dispute where you are disputing or you are negating the B, which is often those irrational beliefs. So it consists of challenging those beliefs as directly as possible. Okay, so B is disputing or negating or challenging the thoughts or the beliefs that you've had about this event, so that you are led to E, which is a new way or an effective new belief or an effective new approach to this problem. So it is an effective approach that replaces a certain belief that you've had so replacing irrational thoughts and fears become what becomes that's what you're doing in dispute while you're disputing. And it works in developing a new way of thinking and a new way of behavior. Okay, so this APCDE is based on this relationship between a new way of thinking and a new way of thinking. And it works in developing a new way of thinking and a new way of behavior. Okay, so this APCDE is based on this relationship that helps people to focus on their goals in a structured and a systematic manner. Okay, remember not always this is followed in order. Okay, and sometimes it often is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the consequences and the beliefs. Okay, because beliefs often tend to be confused with feelings, because they all they work so hand in hand, it gets it often gets confused. Okay, so let's take let me take an example and, you know, work through this alongside with you. So let's say the event is maybe a student doesn't get selected in a maybe in a team. Okay, or let's say the choir after her audition. Okay, the student doesn't get admitted. Sorry, selected for the choir in after the audition. So that's the a the event a has led to the thought, which is be I have a terrible voice, and I'm never going to be good at singing. So it's the belief that this girl has made for her rejection in the choir. Now this is becomes the belief, which results in the consequence that the she is sad about her singing and gives up practice practicing, instead of continuing to work on it. Okay, so I hope you saw the saw the flow. Now. So what is the a the activating event is that she thinks she's made a mistake and that's why she's not chosen in the choir. The belief is that she says she's a failure, and that she's not good at anything, and she accepts it she accepts it quite uncritical she doesn't even think irrationally about it she accepts it so yeah, this is what it is. And the consequence is that she feels awful about this mistake, and about herself, and maybe leading to sad depressive thoughts, making it tough for her to even practice or even try again. Okay, now when we help a person realize that they are not a victim in this process, but they can do something about this be part of the model. And that it is important that they don't accept that this thought is true. Okay, and even as I'm saying this think about all of the scripturally. Okay, God's given us gifts and gifts to build us. Okay, so she what she's does doing here is she's accepting that this belief is true that she's good for nothing. And, but she's when when you open it up to her saying that you know, this is what renewing of the mind is thinking about something differently. And it's just a thought, and you treat it as such but go hold back to the truth. Alright, so when you're doing that, let's come to D so you're helping her dispute is your quest helping to question the thought. When you question the thought. She tells maybe she's telling herself that yeah, everyone makes mistake and all because you make one mistake does not mean that you're worthless or good for nothing. Right, so you're disputing that thought all because there's been a mistake in the way she sang. It doesn't mean that one mistake makes you completely not good for anything or outside of your purpose. Alright, and this leads to E, which is the new effect. She accepts that everyone makes mistakes, replaces this negative belief with a positive thought. And she commits to learning from the mistake and trying again in future she says okay everyone makes mistake maybe I should just work a bit more harder. Okay, or I should work on this piece a little more or I should build myself in this key, the skill. Okay, so you can see this work happening in D. D is the place where you help the council realize that the thoughts sometimes are simply wrong and your own thoughts or something that that isn't in tune with God's word isn't in tune with, you know. So there is this all or none law either it's it should be I should be selected all the time or if I'm not selected, you know, I'm bad forever that these don't determine these these things or these these events don't really determine who she is. So she takes control by rejecting that thought and replacing it with a more positive thought. Okay, I hope that's clear. I hope that's understood. Okay, so let me let me I think I will just go on to one more example. And, okay, let's look at another example here. Okay. Here is this is this is about a son and a father. Okay, the son returns home and goes to the room without speaking. That's the event. That's what's happened. The 18 year old son has entered the home and does not say anything and goes without speaking. So what is the thought that is generated in the mother or the father's mind is he's so ungrateful and discourteous. Okay. And where is this coming from probably from an attitude or a belief or opinion or as a result of an expectation that there is a belief that says this is how my son is my son is always rude. My son is not Curtis. He's ungrateful. So that's what has fed. There's a belief that's fed in to this thought. And you will see that this thought has a consequent feeling which is a anger that is anger that comes up. Okay. And the first consequence you see is that C1 this consequences because you're angry you go in and have an argument with the son. So there is a behavioral consequence as well. And that leads to E1. What is the effect both get angry both withdraw and the relationship is damaged. But whereas when you are disputing it look at D you are stopping and you are disputing that thought you are reframing the thought or you are renewing your thought and asking yourself. Am I just going to jump to these conclusions? Could there be a possible alternative explanation? Maybe he's had a rough day. Maybe there's something that's bothering him. And that thought or belief changes the consequence. So this father goes to the son's room and has a friendly chat with them and not, you know, doesn't bark with them. You know, you don't even say hi to me or, you know, when you think this is a hotel, you just keep coming in, you know, those are, that's what would have happened in C1. But in C2 maybe it's like, son, how was your day? You seem to be tired. You seem to be would you like to talk? Right. So that comes with a change in the belief or change in the thought that leads to a new effect. There is a relationship that's built, there's confidence, there's trust and both seem happy. Okay. Does this make sense? Does this help? Awesome. Great. Okay. Now, this is very, very useful for us, for each one of us. Okay. Because for all, for everything, I mean, every situation in our lives and especially as believers, I mean, this is, this is what renewing your mind is all about. And this is what you are helping your counselling, because very often they have had the thoughts or the beliefs that they come with are so skewed that it affects every part of their lives. Okay. And helping them see this model really gets them to work on these areas, especially the area of their belief systems and what they are thinking. All right. So what I, quickly, okay, I'd like maybe one or two of you to take us through this model with an example. And I'm sure some of us have already done it, you know, in some way or the other, you know, if we've been listening to sermons and, you know, reading scripture, we've done this in some way of renewing our minds. But now we have a huge, you know, you understand this better. And this is something that we use even with counsellors. So what one or two of you just help in sharing this model, something that you've used to work through this, anybody, anybody. And I think it's more helpful when one of you all talk, rather than me bringing up examples all the time, something that's more personal to you. Yeah. The stage is open. We have 10 minutes. And let's use this time to hear. Ma'am, I will try. Yes, if I'm hitting the mark, but something that comes to my mind is that during lockdown, when, when, you know, my husband was home and working. And all the time when I could understand the kind of work he does in the office because for years he's been going to office. He comes back, he's tired, exhausted, and not even a mood to say good evening, you know, when he entered home because of traveling 20 kilometers after the work. And I didn't understand, like, we have fresh home waiting and the person is not in a mood to even say hello and being told to do something or, you know, he has his frame of mind. But during lockdown, we saw that the how, how they have been, you know, in the office, what kinds of challenges they are facing and how they are, you know, really working behind those walls. And it's such a challenging job for them in a corporate world to, you know, get the orders and get things at right perspective. And that by the end of the day, when they come home, they just want to be themselves and they just want that. So renewing our mind in the sense that when I understood that it is tough for him. He's been speaking all day, he's been, you know, convincing people fighting for the things and you're making things happen. And when he comes home, you know, he just wants to be quiet for a while. A glass of water can help him and just sit close to him and just, you know, give him a chance to speak if he has something to say. And then when he feels like eating, go and cook chapatis for him and serve him. And sometimes, you know, that helped me understand his perspective and help him, you know, de-burden himself when he's home. So I don't know if I'm, I'm answering the question, but something that I have understood through the, through these last two years has been significantly changed our relationship as well. So what was your initial belief of me? You know, ma'am, we would think that he would come back home. So when we are happy seeing him, he would be very happy seeing us. And, you know, we have something to tell him and that whatever we want to tell him, you know, he would be happily listening to my story of the day. But that is the time when I have to wait for him to, you know, be prepared to listen to me, not just that as he enters, you know, I just want, okay, quickly go, you know, take a bath, have dinner and then, you know, I'm free. You know, because you're waiting through the day and you want things to, you know, wind up quickly, then clean up and, you know, sit before the television. Because those days we were fond of television and we just wanted to be, he wants to be before the television and I want to sleep. So I am upset because the voice is not giving me that time to sleep or something like, you know, was always there. But slowly we understood that it's not the way, my way is not the right way. Right. So I think to help this. So she said the activating event is her husband coming back home every evening and not maybe talking or not spending time. Probably the initial belief was, you know, he's lost in his old, old world, he doesn't care. He doesn't want to talk. Okay. And the consequent behavior of feeling is a sense of maybe sadness, anger, irritation. But the dispute, the D has come in with thinking with seeing, I mean, I think this has happened with some clarity in the way that she, Avni has probably changed the way she's looked at it. So she said, okay, there's a lot of things that he does. He just needs some time to relax, just time on his own. So that's a change in the way that she has, you know, she's disputed that. And consequently, it's been a more supportive experience where she's understood to give him that time. And then the effect has been a more positive relationship. Very good, Avni. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Pratik, you have put up your hand and took it away as fast. So was it a mistake? Yes, Prabhakar. Go ahead. So this is an event happened to my friend personally. I've been with him to counseling. So he was in love with a girl. So she left him and went. He was very broken and all that. So we went to this morning pastor. He said to him, because she left, your value doesn't change. He gave an example. He said, suppose a currency, somebody crushes it and puts it in a dustbin. It doesn't lose its value. Even if you take from the dustbin and give it to the store, it still has a value. So somebody leaves you and go, it doesn't mean your value is changed. It's because they haven't recognized your value. So that thought, he was thinking that he's a failure. He was not good and all that. But when they, when he said your value hasn't changed because somebody left, he's happily married and he's good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Prabhakar. Great example. Yeah, absolutely. Good. Anybody else? Yes, Anita. Go ahead. It was, I will just say that it was about a misunderstanding. Actually, like my mother-in-law and there is something happening between like her son and her. And then she was like upset and she told me like, how can he abuse me like this and all. And I was totally unaware about the incidents. What happened actually? The word abuse, like I was, I kept thinking what she means by abuse, abuse, abuse. What did he do like that? And then like, then what happened? Like I asked her what happened and all that. I asked my husband and he was like, something happened. But it was like, she wanted to say that he made me upset and she did not know the right word to use because she's just learning, picking up on English and she used the wrong word. But when she used that word, how much effect it had on my like, on my emotion. So many thoughts ran into my mind. But instead of like, like take, carry it away by those thoughts and emotions and keeping it to me. I thought of like, disclosing it to my husband, talking it out with my husband and with her and understanding the situation. Then I understood, okay, her choice of word was wrong. It was not what she meant. Then I explained to her though, no, you should not talk like that. You should talk like that. This is when you say like that to anybody, it will mean like that. It would be a totally wrong thing. Like if I would have, I was then afterwards I was thinking if I would have not said like that. What kind of personality impact like how I would have her personality in my life. I would have like gassed it all wrong. And maybe I would have carried her like that only. And I would have not been so close to her any more. It would have like kind of put the partition in between me and my mother-in-law. So that's what happened. I don't know whether it is right. Absolutely. So what yours, the event was your mother-in-law sharing something with you. The belief was that, you know, that something is really wrong and the way that she saw it. The consequent feeling was there, but how you dispute it is you had a conversation. You had a conversation with your husband and you understood what the context was. So you were able to change the way that you saw her and consequently that the new effect was the new relationship. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you, Anita. Yes, Haddison. I think you have an example. All right. Good morning from here. This is a very practical example that happened to me, you know, because for me sometimes, you know, like, you know, using what is around me to really explain, you know, some things. Okay. There was a time, you know, my pastor invited, I am my wife, you know, for a meeting. And I had, you know, the media department and he held a meeting with myself and my wife. And in the meeting, you know, he was now like giving credit, you know, to my wife and the rest of them, you know, it was more like, you know, discussion was focused on my wife. Then at the end of the day, he looked at me, said, I'm Harrison. I think, you know, there's a need enough for you to go and upgrade your career, upgrade your CV. But before he said it, he said, it does not know whether to say this in front of my wife. I was like, you know, there is a need enough for you to say whatever you want to say in front of her, because we are not different from, we're just one. So feel free to say what you want to say. So when he told me that, you know, I asked, I said, okay, what in particular would you want me to go upgrade on? So, and, you know, why I ask that question is because when you know a person, then you will know how to address your point or something. So when you say, go upgrade your CV, upgrade it on what? So when he does not have a particular area on which you should go upgrade my CV, then for me, the point is business. So at the end of the day, I was like, okay, what is the top of this man? So I felt hot, but I didn't say anything. By left and my wife too was hot, you know, because one is that, you know, it's like questioning ourselves, you know, by asking what is the essence of this meeting. So at the end of the day, I lived with that pain for some few weeks that, you know, my thought, you know, was, or my belief was that maybe I was incompetent to whatever task that was given to me. So this thing, you know, kind of, you know, as funny as it could be, it affected me. So at the end of the day, it's more like, you know, I had to like, you know, sit down, my wife sat down, and she reminded me of who I was. You know, by telling me that Harrison, you know, there's a need, you know, you need to understand that everybody's entitled, you know, to say whatever they want to say, but it's a responsibility to accept, you know, what to hear or what not to hear. So at the end of the day, when I got that word, it was more like, you know, I had to reflect back on me to tell myself that Harrison, this is who you are. So don't be pulled up, you know, by a statement. So from that moment, you know, instead of me paying attention to the words that I had, I had to start reminding myself of who I was. So it was more like, you know, I said, I'm speaking to myself on a daily basis, and that, you know, brought me back, you know, to shape, you know, to label to the way I think. So I think, you know, for me this could also be an example, you know, to what we're discussing. Thank you. Thank you, Harrison. Thank you so much. Wonderful. I'm so glad that all of you have been able to look back at some part of your lives to see how you'll have used this. But if it's a new learning for some of you here, take this and look at ways as to what have been some of your strong beliefs about yourself, about other people, about situations, about God, and dispute that using scripture, using the word, using truth. And you will see how consequently it will change your behavior, change your emotions, thoughts, change your experiences in life. All right. Wonderful. Thank you so much for today. Could we have someone close with a word of prayer? Anybody, any of the students who can close with a word of prayer? Someone who hasn't prayed earlier, would love to hear your voices. I will pray. Yes, Mangi. Thank you. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for the wisdom and knowledge you've imparted, faster than George. And we thank you, Lord, that he is able to impart some knowledge into us, Lord, so that we may be useful in your kingdom, Lord. We may be those vessels of silver and vessels of gold, Lord. And we pray that you will put us to good use, Lord, so that we will help actually your kingdom forward. And we thank you, Jesus, that you will be with us again until we meet again to this class next Wednesday. We pray all this, Father, in your mighty name, Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Mangi. Thank you, everyone. Have a good week ahead. We'll meet you next week. God bless each of you. Bye-bye. Thank you, ma'am. God bless you, too. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am.