If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious … - Doug Martsch

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God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.

Doug Martsch

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

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