Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

one in is a Theologian. Hi friends, welcome back to Verity Podcast. We are getting so

close to the end of 2022. I kind of can't believe that this year has flown by so fast. I was just

putting together some photos and some videos from this year, and once you put it all together,

and you look at the different seasons and the things that you did in the last 365 days,

it's just amazing how time flies, and it's also amazing to see just how we've spent our time

over the last 12 months. The things that we did every day, moment by moment, hour by hour,

add up to who we are a year later, and the culture of our family and the habits we formed,

and the changes we've seen in our life. Which is why when we get to the end of a year,

looking back and being able to add up the minutes and hours that we spent in the word and in

prayer, not literally adding them up, but knowing that this was a daily ritual of our life,

how valuable is that? And we will never be able to estimate the significance and the impact

that those minutes and hours had on our lives. Our exposure to the Word of God

transforms us in ways that we don't even see, or we can't yet see, because God is using it to

slowly open our eyes and grow us and sanctify us and make us into the image of Christ. And so it's

just so important to imperfectly and yet consistently meet God in His Word. Which is why when I was

thinking about what episodes I wanted to do for the end of 2022, I knew I wanted to do one about

Bible reading plans, because when the new year rolls around, a lot of us are considering

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