Hi there, thanks for listening to the Sister Circle Podcast.

My name is Crystal Evans Hurst and I'm your host.

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to

help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. I went to choose.

I went to visit a woman in our church this week who is doing okay, but she's had some medical things recently,

and I wanted to just stop by and see her, just to spend some time. I brought her lunch.

So I spent some time. I brought her lunch. So I spent some time with Aunt Joe. She is not a

stranger to you if you've been following me for any length of time. I interviewed her a few years ago on

episode 172 of the podcast.

This is back before the podcast was video.

You can only listen to it.

She is not only a woman who is a woman I've known for years, but she is a single woman who has never been married and has taken seriously her role to be a spiritual mother.

She has women who literally call her mother,

eight girls, who over decades she has ministered to.

The podcast is about that when I interviewed her on episode 172.

Today though I want to talk to you a little bit about what Aunt Joe and I talked about

last week when I spent some time with her because I think it will be a helpful reminder for you.

So we talked about her life a little bit and kind of what was happening. She asked me about my children.

She talked to me about, you know, my family, my husband, my father, my siblings, my health. And then she said, well, I have a question for you. You're 52. Yes? Said yes. She said, okay. What are you looking forward to in your life? What are your current dreams and goals? And I just

laughed because I'm the planner girl right? I have a whole planner that we have created that I use

that I'm looking forward to continuing to develop it's a question I should easily be able to answer.

But I laughed because the first things that came to my mind

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