Someone once told me that we are most like God when we are creating. He is after all the creator

of everything and we are after all made in his image. Today's episode has me feeling, I don't know,

a bit weepy, inspired, ultimately grateful. Fair warning, I might cry by the end of this. I don't know. We'll see.

But this content today was inspired by a children's book that left me in tears and the simple

truth that I've been kind of mulling over that we were created to create.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 170.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul

and a fulfilling life. Listen in.

Well, I unintentionally took off a month from the podcast. So hi, I'm back. I'm really glad to be back. I know that I sound like a broken record, y'all, but we've been so sick this whole year. It is maddening. I sent a message out to my patrons saying that we just, we just couldn't catch a break.

And I got COVID.

We got strep.

It just was a whole thing.

And it was just right in the middle of when I was supposed to be recording podcasts.

And that was the one thing that I just had to let go.

So I'm back.

I'm so glad to be back.

And I'm excited to be doing weekly episodes that are shorter.

I just feel like that's the right cadence for me and the right cadence for this podcast.

But when you're sick, you just get so creatively dry, like sucked dry, totally creatively deplete and so just worn down and burnt out in all areas

of my life. And I was talking with my friend Kate from Nap Time Kitchen. We were Marco Poloing

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