Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

We welcome another Friday friend to our show today, our second only guy guest, Robert Beeson.

I don't know Robert personally, but I was fascinated by his story

and thought he talked about an important topic in his new book, Going Solo, that I want to

cover on our show today. Robert goes way back with a music business, actually, founding

essential records and as a senior executive at Provident Music Group, working with some of our

favorites, jars of clay,

third day, casting crowns, and Michael W. Smith. He's done a lot, right? But what I look forward to hearing

is the wisdom he has to share about being a single parent and his journey from brokenness to

restoration, something all of us, I think, journey through in our own life. So thanks for being on, Robert,

and welcome to our show. I remember when I first realized that my wife of 13 years was gone,

it just felt like a crash. Like I was just pulling myself from the wreckage. It's hard. You know,

you're juggling kids and a new normal

lawyers and bills, and it's just all these voices in your head. They say you've failed. You're not

enough. There's no hope you can't do it. You're all alone. The problem is when those thoughts,

they start becoming beliefs, that's when we get into trouble. What I learned to kind of grasp and to hold on to was seeing the difference between the

condition and the constant.

Let me explain.

The condition is something that's right in front of us.

It's circumstantial.

It's the situation that is immediate.

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