Hey, I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything show, affectionately known as Joe,

where around here you will always hear honest conversations about life, faith, and true strength,

courage, and love in the midst of our real everyday life. Doing something fun and exciting for the

summer, airing the best of the best Joe from the past two seasons. That's right. We are bringing you the top

20 most listened to Joe shows of the past year. Shows with some of my most amazing guests,

therapists, Bible teachers, some of my close friends, talking about sex and spiritual abuse

and how to have hard conversations and showing up when it's hard.

Get ready. Buckle up. Best of the best. Top 20 Joe shows are here.

Hey, thanks for showing up. I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything show, affectionately known as Joe, where this season it is all about truth-telling, finding the good, and showing up for our lives today no matter what has happened even yesterday. I have an extra special show for you today. We are releasing a free audio chapter of my new book, The Hard Good for

you exclusively on Joe. It's true. I've gotten the permission of my publisher to release one of my

favorite chapters, Chapter 3, for you to listen to for free right here through this podcast.

There are perks to being a Joe listener,

right? This chapter, showing up when you want to shut down, is near and dear to my heart,

as you can imagine. We subtitled the book after it, and it contains some poignant stories,

some crucial teaching, and is so very important for you if you are in a place where the emotions from your

hard thing are threatening to shut you down. I am so thrilled to share with you now from the

hard good, Chapter 3. Chapter 3. Showing up when you want to shut down.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau.

I never expected John to come out of the house wearing Dad's cowboy hat.

It was the summer after Dad died during John's first official visit to our beautiful state of North Carolina and a trip to the lake.

Every new guest gets the offer of an outing on

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