Today's episode is all about simple ways to feel closer to God.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 277.

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. Let's dive in.

My heart behind today's episode is just providing a place for me to share some very simple things that I do in my life to help me feel closer to God.

I first want to just say there have been times in my walk with the Lord where I have felt very distant from him

and sometimes we just have to walk through those seasons where we just feel distant and I feel

like I remember a very real time that that happened for me was in college and I was struggling

with a lot of doubt and a lot of questioning and I did not feel God's presence like I was used to feeling it.

It was a new season and it was just really hard.

It felt very dark.

But I do feel like the Lord took me through that time as this refining period in my life

to test my faith and to try me

and see how serious I was about following him. So if you're there, know that there's no condemnation

here. I have been there too. I hope that maybe one thing that I share with you today might help you feel

more connected with the Lord. Maybe they won't. And that's okay. Just keep going. Just keep going one foot in

front of the other and know that he is for you. Because there's the feeling of being close to God, which is what we long for.

We want to feel his presence.

We love to feel close to him.

But then there's the truth that God is close to us no matter what we feel.

And so my prayer for you today is that no matter where you are, if you're in a season where

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