Convert.

Welcome back to Encounter Now podcast. This is Chelsea speaking, one of your host, and I'm also joined

here with my husband, Nick. We're talking today about friendship and how to navigate changes

within different friendships that you have in your lives. And we get into several other topics, but you'll

just have to listen to the episode to find out what those are. Okay, let's get started.

Okay, let's get started. Today's podcast is brought to you in part by Denison Ministries and their First 15 email devotional.

Sign up today by visiting first15.org.

What's up guys?

Welcome back to another podcast episode. This is one of our favorite things to do together.

And after quite the type of week we've had, it just feels great to sit down and talk to each other and chat with you guys about things that are all on our hearts at some point in our lives.

And I think a lot of us are going through this right now or have had to

navigate friendships and the changing rhythms of all of that, especially when you move away for

school or a job. And I know that both Nick and I have had just amazing friends over the years,

but we've had to learn how to keep the communication going, how to constantly

make sure that they know that they're loved by you and that you're thinking of them,

and how to just keep that friendship going whenever things kind of shift and change in your life.

So if you guys are okay with that, we're going to talk about it today.

So we figured we would start off this episode

by reading Day 52 in the devotional I wrote almost a year ago. It's been a while that I've

actually been writing these words, but now it's the launch process of this book, and I hope that

you guys all enjoy it. It's called Above All Else and there's 60 devotionals for your daily

life with various different types of topics. And so we decided the theme for this podcast would be

...