Sometimes we think when the wind blows outside that it's a bad thing. Oh man, it's windy today.

I like it when it's a windy day. It's stirring things. It's knocking those dead branches.

Way at the top of the tree, it's knocking that stuff out. It's cleaning things up a little bit.

All that dust on the sidewalk, it's blown it off. It's cleaning it up a little bit.

It's good to have a stirring in your life. I think you're going through a stirring season,

and I would lean into it and not run away from it.

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the podcast Episode 173. Thanks for watching and listening

wherever you're coming from, whatever platform, wherever in the world you are. I'm just glad

you're here. I'm glad to do this. I answer your questions. You email me,

GrangerSmith podcast at gmail.com, and I can answer it. The best I can. No notes in front of me.

I'm not prepared. I don't have a book ready. I don't have some kind of system that I'm working with

here. I'm just talking like we're just two friends, and you just say, hey, can I run something by you?

And I'm not always right when I give you an answer, but I'm going to give it to you the best I know how

as if we're in the cab of a truck, and you got a question, and I would assume that you would

deliver the same kind of answer back to me if I had a question for you. Okay, let's get to the

first email. There is no order. There is no system I'm running with here. Subdicline of this first

one says, girlfriend wants to sleep in separate bedrooms. Hey, Granger, I'm a new 2023 listener here,

and one that needs your help. My girlfriend, age 21 and I, age 25, have been dating for about two

years. I live in South Carolina. She moved down in May, 2022 after her graduation and moved in with me.

All has been well since. Over the past few weeks, I've been taking strides to reconnect with God

with her support. Went to kindergarten through eighth grade in Christian school, but I fell out of

touch. We agreed to start sleeping in separate bedrooms out of an effort to preserve our relationship

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