Hey everybody before we get started I just wanted to jump on because we are so excited to announce that restore registration is officially open

We can't wait to be with you again this year. It's gonna be on September 5th through 7th at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy, Utah.

That's the evening of September 5th and then all day on the 6th and the 7th.

Three days of incredible speakers, poets, musicians, and artists.

We really think that what we have planned will blow you away again this year so you won't want to miss it.

Go to faithmatters.org slash restore for tickets and we'll see you there.

Hey everybody this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today we're bringing you an interview with Kurt Frankham, author of a new book

titled Is God Disappointed in Me, Removing Shame from a Gospel of Grace. It seems to us that culturally,

Latter-day Saints don't usually imagine an angry, vengeful God,

but we may very well imagine a God who is perpetually disappointed with us when we inevitably

fail to live up to our highest selves.

Kurt's book unpacks what hurts about the idea of a disappointed God and why this belief can be a

real stumbling block to our growth.

He explores the ways that sin is very often a response to woundedness and how understanding these core vulnerabilities about ourselves

can help us to heal instead of hiding and numbing in shame.

We've linked to this really sweet video that Kurt posted of his daughter learning to walk.

She's fumbling and struggling to learn,

and the video reminds us that as parents,

we're not disappointed by this process of growth.

Instead, like Kurt's voice in this little video,

he's bursting with pride at her growth and joy that she gets

back up and excitement that he got to be with her on this journey of learning to

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