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Saturday Daily Affirmations: I Release Regret (Psalm 32:5)
Saturday is a good day to slow down and look back over your week with God. Not to replay everything or overthink it, but to notice where He met you, where He carried you, and where His grace showed up. These Scripture-based Christian affirmations are a gentle way to reflect with honesty and gratitude before the new week begins.

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Saturday affirmations and Scripture

I thank God for walking with me through this week.
Psalm 143:10 — "Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; may Your
good Spirit lead me on level ground."

I recognize God's faithfulness in both the seen and unseen moments.
Psalm 77:11 — "I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will
remember Your miracles of long ago."

I release regret and receive God's grace.
Psalm 32:5 — "Then I acknowledged my sin to You... and You forgave the
guilt of my sin."

I trust that God was at work even when I didn't notice.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 — "He has made everything beautiful in its
time."

I give thanks for the strength God provided each day.
Psalm 28:7 — "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in
Him, and He helps me."

I acknowledge where I grew this week.
2 Peter 3:18 — "Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ."

I notice where God invited me to trust Him more deeply.
Psalm 37:5 — "Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do
this."

I receive God's mercy for where I fell short.
Micah 7:18 — "You delight in mercy."

I choose gratitude over self-criticism.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 — "Give thanks in all circumstances."

I honor the work God has been doing in my heart.
Philippians 1:6 — "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to
completion."

I acknowledge God's presence in ordinary moments.
Psalm 16:11 — "You make known to me the path of life."

I release this week into God's care.
Psalm 55:22 — "Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain
you."

I trust God with what remains unfinished.
Proverbs 16:9 — "In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord
establishes their steps."

I thank God for His patience with me.
Psalm 103:8 — "The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger,
abounding in love."

I rest in the truth that God sees me fully.
Hebrews 4:13 — "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's
sight."

I choose to end this week with gratitude.
Psalm 92:1 — "It is good to give thanks to the Lord."

I release comparison and embrace contentment.
Hebrews 13:5 — "Be content with what you have, because God has said,
'Never will I leave you.'"

I acknowledge God's protection this week.
Psalm 121:7 — "The Lord will keep you from all harm."

I thank God for His provision.
Matthew 6:31-32 — "Your heavenly Father knows that you need them."

I recognize God's quiet guidance.
Isaiah 30:21 — "This is the way; walk in it."

I let go of striving and receive rest.
Psalm 23:2 — "He leads me beside quiet waters."

I honor the limits God has given me.
Psalm 127:2 — "He grants sleep to those He loves."

I trust God with what I do not understand.
Romans 11:33 — "Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge
of God."

I receive peace as I reflect with God.
Psalm 4:7 — "You have filled my heart with greater joy."

I end this week grounded in God's faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:23 — "Great is Your faithfulness."

Closing prayer

God, thank You for walking with me through this week. Help me to see Your
faithfulness clearly and to release what I need to let go of. I trust that You
were present in ways I noticed and in ways I didn't. I place this week back
into Your hands. Amen.
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Every year around this time I get the same question. What do we do about Halloween?

You'll hear everything from it's a free-for-all with no spiritual implication, to turn the lights off and hide in the house. My answer lands somewhere in the middle, and it starts here: I don't want to live in a way that hands the devil my days.

Today we take on Halloween, and then a harder question about free will and the passages where God hardens a heart.

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How should Christians handle Halloween?

I'm answering this as both a parent and a former children's pastor. I grew up in a conservative Christian environment and later served in a charismatic one, so I've watched different churches handle this very differently.

Here's my baseline. As Christians we're called to take light into the darkness, not run from it. Most Christians would agree. But for some reason we treat Halloween as the one exception.

I don't want to give the devil any of my days. If I'm on this earth a hundred years and I hide every Halloween, that's a hundred days I handed over out of fear.

That said, I won't pretend there's nothing there. There are real spiritual implications around Halloween. So my answer isn't either extreme.

What does a good alternative look like?

When I was a children's pastor, we did a trunk or treat. We played music from Jump Start 3, a ministry that set Scripture to music kids actually liked, and gave away their CDs. We served a lot of low income families whose kids didn't get CDs bought for them. We used that same music in Sunday school because it got God's Word into kids in a way they remembered.

We had rules for the trunks. Nothing evil, nothing scary, nothing representing the occult. We had a Candyland trunk and an apple harvest trunk. We ran contests and giveaways and made it a genuinely fun night, so families had somewhere good to go. If your church does something like that, it's a great option.

When does a church alternative go wrong?

I've also seen the other side of it.

We took our youngest daughter to a trunk or treat at a local church. They'd advertised a fall harvest party, so we weren't expecting anything unusual. It turned out to be inside the building, and to get in you had to walk through a black tunnel with skeletons on the walls, stinky smoke, and fire. I thought maybe it was one of those heaven-or-hell presentations, which I'm not a fan of, but you couldn't turn around and you couldn't get out.

When we came through, the gymnasium was covered in scary, creepy Halloween decorations. My husband and I looked at each other and we were out. Then we met the pastor and he told us they wanted to make it even scarier next year.

That's losing the plot entirely. There's no reason to invite families into a church building and hand them a haunted house.

What else can we do on Halloween?

We're called to live in the world and not of it, so this has looked like different things for our family over the years. Sometimes when we went house to house, we gave something instead of taking something. Sometimes we'd make it an exchange and ask people if they needed prayer.

Here's what I keep coming back to. Yes, there is evil happening that night. It's also a night when kids and families are out looking for something. They are literally going door to door asking.

If you live in a neighborhood with kids, you could hand out Scripture music, or candy with a Bible verse attached. Or you could simply say, I love your costume, is there anything you need prayer for?

This is one of the few nights a year when we have a natural reason to meet our neighbors. If we have the good news, why wouldn't we offer it on a night when people are at our door asking for something?

Now, if you start handing out ghosts and goblins, you've missed the plot. But hiding with the lights off and pretending we're not home is literally hiding your light under a bushel. We all learned that song as kids. Halloween is a good chance to actually live it.

What about my kids?

If you're going to participate, it comes with a conversation, and it's still your responsibility to protect your children.

Letting them dress up as a witch is not okay. But there are plenty of options. They can be a favorite character or dress up as popcorn. There's a lot of room between a witch costume and hiding in the house.

While you're out, if a house looks evil, you skip it. Or maybe you pray for it. Or maybe you go up and offer to pray for those people. That depends on the age of your kids. If you have a four-year-old, I wouldn't. If you have a sixteen-year-old, maybe you should.

If we take the mentality of hiding from evil, where does it stop? We're not called to hide. We're called to face it.

What about "God hardened his heart" and free will?

A listener wrote in accepting that God is sovereign while also believing we can choose to turn away, and wrestling with Romans 9 and the Pharaoh passages. You're not the first to sit with this. Scholars have discussed it for centuries.

Start in the garden. God put the tree there and gave a real command with a real consequence. That means they had a choice, and that matters, because love that can't say no isn't love. It's control. That theme runs all the way through. Moses sets before Israel life and death and tells them to choose life. Joshua says choose this day whom you will serve. God calls people to respond, but He doesn't force it.

So what about Pharaoh?

Before the plagues begin, God tells Moses that Pharaoh's heart will be hardened. Read that alone and it's troubling. Read the whole story and something else emerges.

Again and again, Pharaoh hardens his own heart. He sees God's power, experiences a plague, asks Moses to stop it, the plague is removed, then he changes his mind and hardens his heart again. Only later does Exodus say the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart.

This isn't a willing heart that God forces into rebellion. Pharaoh is already resisting. God allows that resistance to solidify and uses it for His purpose.

The Hebrew helps. One word is chazaq, meaning to strengthen or make firm. When I taught this to kids I compared it to Jell-O. The ingredients are all there, and eventually they set. Another is kabed, carrying the sense of making something heavy. The picture is God confirming Pharaoh in a direction he already chose.

That connects to Romans 1, where three times Paul says God gave them over to the sin they had chosen. Sometimes God's judgment isn't forcing someone to do what they don't want. It's allowing them further down the road they keep insisting on.

How should I read Romans 9?

In context, which means reading 9, 10, and 11 together. Those chapter divisions were added centuries later by scribes.

Paul doesn't open Romans 9 with a lecture on predestination. He opens by grieving, saying he has unceasing anguish because his own people have rejected Jesus. The question he's answering is whether God's promise to Israel failed.

His answer is no. God's purposes have not failed, and He has always been free to choose how He accomplishes them. That's the context for I will have mercy on whom I have mercy. The point isn't that God randomly decides who gets saved. It's that He decides how He accomplishes His plan.

Keep reading. In chapter 10, Paul says everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Everyone. Then that Israel can be grafted back in, and eventually that God has bound everyone over to disobedience so He may have mercy on them all.

How do both things hold together?

Scripture doesn't feel the need to pick one and throw out the other. At Pentecost, Peter says Jesus was handed over according to God's deliberate plan, and in the same breath tells the people they were responsible for His death. Paul says work out your salvation with fear and trembling, then adds that it is God who works in you.

We also read difficult passages in light of clear ones. God wants all people to be saved. Jesus stood over Jerusalem and said how often He longed to gather her children, and they were not willing.

So here's where I land. God is sovereign and nothing is outside His authority, and our choices are real. I don't believe God creates some people for salvation and others for hell. That isn't consistent with His character, and predestining someone to hell and then holding them responsible for a choice they were never free to make throws out free will entirely.

He is powerful enough to accomplish His purposes even when people resist. Pharaoh said no and God didn't lose control.

Mystery isn't the same thing as contradiction. When we want to know what God is like, we look at Jesus.

Timestamps

00:00 Why we do Q&A episodes

01:40 The Halloween question

03:06 Taking light into the darkness

03:32 A hundred years, a hundred days

04:32 What our trunk or treat looked like

06:25 The trunk or treat that went wrong

07:51 When churches lose the plot

08:17 Giving instead of taking

08:47 They're already at your door asking

09:45 Hiding your light under a bushel

10:13 Talking with your kids about it

11:26 The free will question

14:22 What about Pharaoh?

16:31 Chazaq and kabed

18:37 Reading Romans 9 in context

26:36 Where I land on it

28:27 Mystery is not contradiction

Frequently asked questions

What is Jump Start 3?
A music ministry that set Scripture to music kids enjoyed. We used it in Sunday school and gave the CDs away at our trunk or treat.

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Friday Daily Affirmations: God's Grace Is Greater Than My Failures
(Lamentations 3:22-23)
End your week anchored in peace and presence. These Scripture-based
Christian affirmations are a short, steady way to set down what you've been
carrying and find rest in God's care. Today's affirmations are about releasing
your burdens, letting go of striving, and remembering that God's strength,
love, and renewal are available right where you are. It's time to stop striving
and start resting in His goodness.

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Before we begin

The week is ending, and as we step into the weekend, let's take a moment to
breathe. Release your burdens and rest in God's presence. We're not meant to carry everything ourselves. God calls us to lay our worries at His feet and
find renewal in Him.

Friday affirmations and Scripture

I release my worries and trust God to handle what I cannot.
1 Peter 5:7

God's peace fills my heart and I rest in His presence.
Matthew 11:28

I am not defined by my mistakes. God's grace is greater than my failures.
Lamentations 3:22-23

I let go of the need to control everything and surrender to God's perfect
plan.
Proverbs 3:5-6

I am deeply loved by God and nothing can separate me from His love.
Romans 8:38-39

God refreshes my soul and renews my strength.
Isaiah 40:31

I will be fully present today, trusting that God holds tomorrow.
Matthew 6:34

My body, mind, and spirit find rest in God alone.
Psalm 62:1

I let go of striving and choose to rest in God's love.
Zephaniah 3:17

I step into the weekend with joy, knowing that God is in control.
Psalm 118:24

God's presence is my safe place.
Psalm 91:1

I am fully known and fully loved by God.
Psalm 139:1-2

I will not let stress steal my peace today.
Philippians 4:6-7

God is my refuge and I am safe in His hands.
Psalm 46:1

I do not need to have all the answers. I trust God.
Romans 11:33

God is fighting my battles and I can rest in His victory.
Exodus 14:14

I will not fear because God is with me.
Isaiah 41:13

I am held together by God's love even when life feels overwhelming.
Colossians 1:17

God's goodness and mercy follow me every day.
Psalm 23:6

I will not carry burdens that God has already taken from me.
Matthew 11:29-30

I am at peace because God is in control.
Isaiah 26:3

I trust in God's timing even when I don't understand.
Ecclesiastes 3:11

I will lay down my burdens and take on God's.
Psalm 4:8

I am never alone for God is always with me.
Deuteronomy 31:6

No matter what happens today, God is still good.
Nahum 1:7

Closing prayer

Father, as this week comes to an end, I lay my burdens at Your feet. Help
me to release my worries, rest in Your peace, and trust You with everything I
cannot control. Refresh my heart and renew my spirit so I can step into the
weekend with joy. In Jesus' name, Amen.

I hope these affirmations spoke to your heart today. If you want to go
deeper, just keep listening. Your full Bible study episode is coming up next.

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I know what a lot of you are thinking. The genealogy. Are we really going there?

We are, and there's a reason. If God had wanted a clean family tree for His Son, He had the power to arrange one. Instead He built this one, out of the overlooked and the outsider and the people who were wronged.

Today we're finishing Luke 3 by walking through the lineage of Jesus and the women hidden inside a list that never names them.

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Why does Luke put the genealogy here?

Matthew opens his gospel with a genealogy. Luke buries his at the end of chapter three, right after the baptism and right before the temptation. Luke is a details guy, so the placement is intentional.

Look at what comes immediately before. The heavens open, the Spirit descends like a dove, and a voice says you are my beloved Son. Then Luke runs the family line all the way back to Adam, who he calls the son of God.

And look at what comes right after. Next week we study the temptation, where the enemy says if you are the Son of God.

So Luke sandwiches this family tree between heaven declaring the sonship of Jesus and the devil attacking it. In the ancient world, genealogies were identity documents.

Why does it say Jesus was about thirty?

Thirty was a meaningful number. The Levites entered temple service at thirty. David became king at thirty. Joseph entered Pharaoh's service at thirty. Ezekiel's visions began at thirty. It was the age a man was considered ready to carry the responsibility of ministry.

Luke says about thirty because he's a careful historian. The point is that this is not a kid. He's ready.

Why is Luke's genealogy different from Matthew's?

Matthew starts with Abraham and walks down through David to Jesus. He's making a Jewish case, laying out the royal credentials.

Luke flips it. He starts with Jesus and walks backward through David, past Abraham, all the way to Adam, and then one step further to God.

That difference is intentional. Matthew stops at Abraham because his point is the covenant with Israel. Luke pushes past Abraham because his point is the entire human race. He's a Gentile writing to Gentiles, saying this is for everybody.

Remember what Luke quoted from Isaiah a few verses earlier. All flesh will see the salvation of God. Matthew and Mark stop that quotation short. Luke carries it all the way through, and then he builds a family tree that backs it up.

And think about the timing. John just told the crowd that having Abraham as their father wasn't enough. Then Luke shows that the family line of Jesus goes back further than Abraham anyway.

Why do the two lists split after David?

From Abraham to David, Matthew and Luke match. After David they diverge almost completely. Matthew traces the line through Solomon, the royal line. Luke traces it through Nathan, a different son of David.

They also give different fathers for Joseph. Matthew says Jacob. Luke says Heli. Scholarship is divided. One explanation is that Luke is giving Mary's line, with Heli as her father and Joseph listed as son-in-law, since Jewish lists didn't name women. Another is that Matthew gives legal rights to the throne while Luke gives physical descent. They run through different members of the same families, so they aren't in conflict.

Why does any of this matter?

Here's what struck me. Most of these names appear nowhere else in Scripture. We know nothing about them. No recorded words. And they're in the line of Jesus.

Dozens of people who lived and raised children and died without making a mark on history, except that they were part of the lineage of the Messiah. God was working through generations who never knew what they were part of. They died without ever seeing it.

For a Jewish person, your genealogy was your identity. Wrapped up in it were land rights, your tribe, and sometimes your job. A priest had to prove descent from a priest in order to serve.

And it was verifiable. Genealogies were part of the public archives, and Josephus talks about consulting them for his own work. When Luke published this list, people could go check it. Those records were destroyed when Rome leveled Jerusalem around AD 70. At the time Luke wrote, you could still look it up.

Why does it end with Adam, the son of God?

Luke is the only gospel writer who takes it all the way back.

Paul later calls Jesus the last Adam in 1 Corinthians, and Luke is making that same connection here, using a list instead of an argument.

The first Adam was tested in a garden where he had everything, and he failed. The very next thing we read in Luke is Jesus going into the wilderness, hungry for forty days, tested. And He doesn't fail.

Where are the women in this list?

There aren't any named. Matthew includes four. Luke includes none, because he's writing the way historians of that era wrote.

But here's what I can't get past. Every name in this list required a woman. And if Luke is in fact tracing Mary's family, then this entire list is her family tree, recorded under the men's names.

So let me point out a few of them.

Eve, the wife of Adam. The very first promise of a rescuer in Scripture was given to her, not to Adam. God tells the serpent that her offspring will crush his head. This whole line Luke just traced is the working out of a promise spoken to a woman about her children. Adam named her Eve because she was the mother of all the living, and Luke traces Jesus back through all the living.

Noah's wife. We don't know her name. We know she boarded the ark, survived the flood, and raised the sons the whole human race descends from, including Shem, who is in Luke's list. Everything after Genesis 8 runs through a woman nobody ever named.

Sarah, attached to the son of Isaac. Twenty-five years waiting on a promise, into her nineties, past any reasonable hope. She laughed when she heard it. Gabriel later tells Mary that nothing is impossible with God, echoing Sarah's story to a young girl who knew it well.

Leah, attached to the son of Judah. Jacob loved Rachel. Leah was the wife he didn't choose, and Genesis says plainly she wasn't loved. She names her first sons in a way that reflects that ache. Then the fourth son she names Judah, which means praise, saying this time I will praise the Lord. She stopped naming her children after the love she couldn't get and named one after the God who saw her. And Judah is the son the Messiah came through. The unloved wife is the great-grandmother of the royal line.

Tamar, attached to the son of Perez. Widowed twice in Judah's family and left in limbo. Under the law she had a right to a husband from that family, and Judah withheld it. A woman with no power, denied what she was owed, who did the only thing available to keep her family line alive.

Rahab, the mother of Boaz. A Canaanite living in Jericho under judgment, with a shameful job. She hid the Israelite spies because she had heard what their God had done and she believed it. Hebrews 11 lists her among the faithful. Her great-grandson was King David.

Ruth, the mother of Obed. A Moabite, and Deuteronomy 23 restricted Moabites from the assembly of Israel. A widow with no children, which meant no security of any kind. She followed Naomi and Naomi's God, and gleaned leftover grain at the edges of fields, the provision the law made for the poor. Two generations in a row, the royal line runs through foreign women.

Bathsheba, attached to the son of Nathan. According to 1 Chronicles 3, Nathan and Solomon had the same mother. Her story was not a clean one, and it was not one she chose.

What do we do with that?

Most of these women are invisible to us. Hundreds of years of women whose names we don't have, who carried babies and delivered them and fed them and taught them and buried them and kept going. All of them part of the story.

And it wasn't only the respectable ones. There's a woman nobody wanted. A widow who had to fight for her place. A Canaanite with a shameful job. A foreigner from an excluded nation. A woman a king took advantage of.

If God had wanted a clean family tree, He could have arranged one. He built this one instead.

So if you feel unseen, or unchosen, or like your story is too messy to be useful, this list is for you. You're in good company, and the company is the family line of Jesus. My own family line is messy too. Praise God that He takes the mess and redeems it.

Timestamps

00:00 Finishing Luke 3, and why we go slowly

01:28 Reading the genealogy

03:25 Prayer

04:25 Why we study genealogy at all

05:01 What comes right before and right after

06:52 Why thirty mattered

08:53 How Matthew and Luke differ

09:49 Why Luke pushes past Abraham

12:40 Two fathers for Joseph

15:57 The names we know nothing about

17:54 Verifiable in the public archives

19:19 The son of Adam, the son of God

19:49 The first Adam and the last Adam

21:07 Why there are no women in the list

22:42 Eve and the first promise

23:27 Noah's wife

23:55 Sarah and the impossible

25:49 Leah and the son named praise

26:54 Tamar

28:15 Rahab

30:24 Ruth

31:49 Bathsheba

33:37 The women we never see

34:45 If God had wanted a clean family tree

Frequently asked questions

Why do Matthew and Luke give different genealogies?
Matthew traces the line through Solomon and Luke through Nathan, another son of David. Explanations include Luke tracing Mary's line, or Matthew giving legal throne rights while Luke gives physical descent.

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Thursday Daily Affirmations: I Seek Wisdom, and God Gives It Freely (James 1:5)
You were created on purpose, for a purpose. These Scripture-based Christian affirmations are a short, steady way to walk into your day with intention, clarity, and wisdom. Whether you're questioning your calling or finding your footing in a new season, today's affirmations will help you trust God's plan, listen for His guidance, and move forward with boldness.

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Before we begin

God created you for a reason. Your life is not an accident, and your
steps are not random. He has a plan for you, a purpose that brings glory to Him and fulfillment to your heart. As you listen to these affirmations, let them
remind you that God is leading, guiding, and equipping you for everything He has called you to do.

Thursday affirmations and Scripture

God has a purpose for my life and I walk in His plan.
Jeremiah 29:11

I trust in the Lord to guide my steps.
Proverbs 3:5-6

I seek wisdom, and God gives it freely.
James 1:5

God is directing my steps and I do not walk alone.
Psalm 37:23

I am a light in this world, shining for Christ.
Matthew 5:14

God has prepared good works for me to do today.
Ephesians 2:10

I am equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:17

I walk in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1:8

I will walk in faith, not in fear.
2 Timothy 1:7

God's Word lights my path.
Psalm 119:105

I choose obedience, knowing God's ways are best.
Deuteronomy 5:33

I live with purpose and do not waste my time.
Ephesians 5:15-16

I am called to make an impact for God's Kingdom.
Matthew 28:19-20

I have the mind of Christ and seek His wisdom daily.
1 Corinthians 2:16

I am a vessel for God's work.
2 Corinthians 4:7

I will not grow weary in doing good.
Galatians 6:9

God's purpose for me cannot be stopped.
Job 42:2

I do everything for the glory of God.
Colossians 3:23

God is using my life to accomplish His plan.
Romans 8:28

I am bold in sharing the gospel.
Romans 1:16

I walk in step with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:25

I remain steadfast in my calling.
1 Corinthians 15:58

God will finish the work He started in me.
Philippians 1:6

I live with an eternal perspective.
Colossians 3:2

I press forward in my faith, knowing my reward is in Heaven.
Philippians 3:13-14

Closing prayer

Father, thank You for calling me to a life of purpose. Help me to walk in
wisdom today, seeking You in all I do. Give me clarity where I need direction,
courage where I need boldness, and a heart that is always ready to serve You. Let my life bring You glory. In Jesus' name, Amen.

I hope these affirmations spoke to your heart today. If you want to go
deeper, just keep listening. Your full Bible study episode is coming up next.

Listen daily and start your morning with God's truth so you can walk in
faith, clarity, and confidence.


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