Hi, this is Lily DeHoyos Anderson, and you're listening to Choosing Glory.

I appreciate your joining me.

This week, the curriculum covers Exodus 7 through 13.

As ever, I'm grateful for all of you who listen to the podcast and take time to do so.

I'm especially grateful to all the Patreon subscribers. I have put some extra content again recently,

particularly on the subject of adult children who are cutting off their parents, the first

part that is already posted talks about possibly legitimate reasons that children, adult

children, distance themselves from their parents. But it's not done in the extreme manner that we're seeing trend currently.

But I do want to talk about that as a foundation that there are some reasons

that it's appropriate to put some distance, not to cut off forever, not to fail to leave a door open,

but anyway, I discussed that.

But the second part,

which is already recorded and will be posted soon, talks about this current trend that is so

incredibly painful and can be very hard to understand that does seem to indicate that there is

a sort of therapeutic push for some of these adult children

to banish their parents from their lives. And I discuss that in this second part, which will be

posted in just a few days. So thank you for your interest in supporting the podcast, all of you subscribers. There's a

link below that can take you to a subscription page if you're able to support the podcast. Again,

my enduring thanks to those who allow me to continue with this project. So a couple of news items today, one of them

so absurd and ridiculous that I almost hesitate to discuss it, but it is kind of Mormons to use

our former nickname that is still used by some, but Mormons in the media. In really a horrific way,

in this case, this is one of the women on that series, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,

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