Like most of us, there have been many times when Christy Anya Buele was struggling with her perspective.

That's when she called her best friend.

I would say, hey, tell me what I already know.

Tell me what I already know.

And then she speaks the word of God to me.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The Quiet

Place. For January 14th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Dan, I know that both of us had the joy, the privilege of growing up in homes where God's word was really honored. And the Lord used the example of my parents to plant in me as a young

girl, seeds of love for God's word. And you had a similar experience, didn't you?

And your mom in particular, I think this is such a great influencer.

I was about eight years old when my mom said, here's a daily devotion.

And there wasn't I'm doing devos and you're doing children's devos.

There wasn't a, I'm going to help you because you can't do it.

There was just an expectation that you're a Christian, you follow Jesus. That means you love and

study His Word. And that really put me on a trajectory for my whole life to love it. There was some

training and some shepherding and some tools that my mom gave me, but mostly I think it was the expectation that was formative for me.

And what an important thing for mothers to hear and dads that you can really plant in your children's lives, young ones, a seed of love for God's word.

And the woman I am today, now in my 60s, has been hugely influenced by my parents'

example and encouragement to get into the word, getting us under good preaching and good

churches, Christian school, a lot of other things, but just the love for the word of God has

been such a huge gift to both of us. And both of us have loved teaching the Word of God since we were little girls.

You know, shortly after that, eight-year-old Dana started doing divos,

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