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Hey friends, welcome to the Ruth Josim's podcast and welcome to our summer series.

I don't know how summer feels to you these days. I know that when I was a child, it felt like it was so long.

And when I was in college, it felt like a time to just go and enjoy and explore and travel.

And now as a middle-aged woman, sometimes I feel

like summer is a time where I just want to be fruitful, see some progress in my life, catch up

on all the things that I couldn't catch up on when life was so busy in the fall and then in the

spring. And so I am bringing you this series

because I'd love for us to have a fruitful summer together. We're going to be looking at and

meditating on the topic of the fruit of the spirit. I'm not going to teach. I'm not going to do a

whole lot of content except to help bring you back to the Word of God.

We're going to reset the summer because summer is a time where we can fix our minds and our

hearts on a topic and see some fruit over time because the pace is a little different, right?

John 15, 5 through 6, Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches, whoever abides in me

and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit for apart from me, you can do nothing.

And so often in summer, I try to bear a lot of fruit by simply resetting my schedule or trying

to do something new.

And I thought it would just be a good thing for us to think about the fruit of the spirit

as a way in which we can aim for the things that are really the fruitful side of a life hidden in Christ when we abide in him.

And yet, for us to focus on that is not to focus on, how do I get more fruit, but rather how

do we think on the very things that we anchor ourselves to, the very aspects of the Christian

life that we focus on and we anchor ourselves to the very aspects of the Christian life that we focus on and we anchor ourselves

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