I'm so glad to be here with you. My name is Annie F. Downs. I'm the host of That Sounds Fun. And the music in the background is from our dear friend Mr. Dave Barnes. This is a song off of his album December to remember. So make sure you check that out. He is one of my very favorite musicians in all the ways.

But particularly at Christmas, I love his stuff. So I hope you will grab that album and go ahead and get it spinning for the next couple of weeks of the holiday season. You know how Christmas goes around here? Well, if you don't, let me tell you, here's how Christmas goes around here. You're guaranteed to show on Mondays and Thursdays.

And you never know when I'm going to drop something else in there because that's what a party is like. So you know you're going to get a Monday and Thursday all month and down until the very last week of December. We will not have a show on New Year's Eve.

But we will have one the Thursday before that. Also, if you listen to our 100th episode, we talked about doing 12 days of Christmas. And we just couldn't get it all together to do it in a row. We didn't have the recording time when we remember God released.

And so we're saving that for next year, but we still may have some other surprises around 12 days of Christmas for you. So don't give up hope on the 12 days of Christmas. If you listen to the 100th episode, okay, just hang in there.

Today on the show, this is a show that y'all request every year. And I get it. I understand why my friends over at Sheeweach Truth had if you don't know Sheeweach Truth and Heweach Truth, really it's for anyone who wants to read the Bible and learn a little bit more about what the Bible says and dig deeper into that work.

And what God might be saying to you in the Bible. And so every season in the biblical calendar, which we're going to talk about a lot in the show, you're going to love that I love that part. So I think you're going to love that part.

But every season, they offer a different reading plan to help you know where to read in the Bible. And especially around Christmas, that is the birth of Jesus. It's really cool and interesting and important to read some scriptures around that.

And so they have set out some really easy, awesome plans for you. So also, if you go to shopsheeweachtruth.com and use the code, that sounds fun. You get 15% off and that's through the end of December.

And so you can get the workbook we're talking about that goes along with the plan. You can get online for free and other adventi swag using the code. That sounds fun.

So if you want to do that, you should totally do that. But today, the girls from Sheeweach Truth, Rachel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams are here to talk to us about advent and what it means and what the reading plan will be like for this season. I'm really excited to read along with y'all starting December 2nd. So here is my conversation with my dear friends, women that you know and love from Sheeweach Truth, Rachel and Amanda.

Hi, friends. Hi, welcome to the that sounds fun podcast and thank you for kicking off our Christmas party 2018.

This is everyone. Everyone show y'all I've missed you. It's been too long. Will you come back at Lent again and kick us off for Lent?

100% love that we haven't even gotten through this one. And I'm like, will you come back? I think you'll have more shows than anybody else. You and Dave Barnes are probably close. It's a we're trying to be Dave. Yeah.

When you're Alan Baldwin, you are my Alec Baldwin. We're like Steve Martin Dave Steve Martin. Yes, he would love. Yeah, I think so.

He's kind of is. Yeah, he feels in that. Yeah, funny and plays the band. I want to be Alec Baldwin, but okay. Sure, sure. All just in theory.

Well, thank you for kicking off our Christmas party. It's one of my favorite parts of the year when we get to do this and when y'all get to kind of and y'all know me, I love church rhythms.

And I love I honestly tell me if y'all experienced this, I feel out of sorts in ordinary time, which is problematic because it's the most the year.

But I feel purposeless in ordinary time. How do you fix that? How do you fix that? It's a great question. I don't know if I'm qualified to answer that question.

But I think that's kind of sweet. Like my first reaction is, well, that's kind of sweet that like you that you're so attuned to the church calendar that like you and your seven, right?

Yeah. So you're just looking for you're looking for the event on the calendar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the lull between the events. Not so much. Yeah, I just don't even feel as healthy as a physically or mentally. I feel like I'm when I'm without a season. Yeah.

Well, and what's problematic is that that season is the longest. So I know it's like most of the year. That's the problem. I mean, I'm healthy for 80 days a year.

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