Thanks so much for joining me for another episode of the Sisters Circle Podcast.

I'm your host, Crystal Evans Hurst, and once a week you get to hear me by myself solo

teaching, encouraging, sharing with you, and another time during the week you get me

and a friend.

I open up the Circle to invite a sister or a brother to join me so we can all be encouraged.

You need to know you're not alone, you need to be encouraged, and you need to have every

now and then a little bit of fun and fullery.

On today's podcast, I am hosting Hosanna Wong, who is an amazing creative.

She is not only a poet, she is also a speaker, she's a teacher, she is a lover of God's

Word, but she has had her own challenges and struggles, and she's a lover of God's

power being at work in the life of every believer to know that he is empowering you to

be who he says you are and to do what he's called you to do, to not hesitate, to not

be afraid to move your life forward, because you simply believe that what he says about

you is true.

Today we're going to be talking a little bit about what it means to connect, to connect

with God, to connect with other people.

Listen, every one of us, every single one of us has a broken lens.

Sometimes that means when we look at other people, we see their brokenness, sometimes

that means when we look at ourselves.

We see our brokenness.

The problem is not that you see things through a broken lens.

The problem is if you believe that your lens is all there is, and you start making decisions

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