My friend Val Marie is such a gift.

She's the founder of Val Marie paper.

She's an author and she designed the lovely yearly prayer journal, which I have used time and time again.

Val has given me so much perspective on prayer and has been such an encouragement to my walk with the Lord.

And today we're talking about

what prayer can actually look like in our lives and how to make 2024 a year of prayer

for you, for real. Thanks for listening to episode 222 of Work and Play with Nancy Ray.

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

Simply put, that's 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.

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Val, I am so excited to have you on the Work and Play podcast. Welcome. I would love to start with you just sharing a little bit about

who you are, who your family is, and Val Marie paper and all of the wonderful things that you do

for work. Yeah. Well, first, thank you so much for having me. I love your podcast and I find it so

valuable. So getting to talk about prayer on here is super exciting.

But yeah, I'm Valerie Warner. I live in South Louisiana with my husband, Tyler, who is an interim

pastor right now. He started that earlier this year and kind of we're just in a new season for our

family. He went from entrepreneur to

pastor. That's amazing. Like the head pastor? Like the head pastor? Yes. Yeah. And he actually had

only preached probably like three times before. But he had worked with the youth. He's great at.

Like he has found it's been really cool to watch

him do this. But totally new season for us and we have two little girls Vivi and Vana who are

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