Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

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take you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. So as I was thinking

back on the episodes that we've done so far this season, I realize that I've been crying a lot.

I've been crying a lot, you guys, in many of these episodes.

And I'm not embarrassed of it it but I'm a little surprised by it because I'm

actually not a crier and I think part of it's because I'm pregnant being

perfectly honest with you but another part of it is just that this first season of the podcast touches on so many

parts of my life that were difficult and taught me so much about the heart of God

that I get emotional just discussing them. And so I think something in my heart really changed last year when I broke my leg.

For those of you who don't know in the middle of 2019 while I was at, it's really struggling

with my autoimmune disease, I broke my leg in a soccer game at the knee and went in for

surgery. I now have a plate and eight screws in my leg and during that

season of being completely dependent on other people, I just, I cried the whole time.

I cried every single day. I wept through my Bible through the Psalms and the difficulty of that changed me and now when I talk about difficult hard times in my life

it's very hard for me to not get emotional and so I think a lot of these episodes have me crying a little bit and a little

warning. I will probably cry in this episode too because we're talking about grief and we're

talking about what scripture says about who God is in the middle of grief. So if you

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