One of the reasons I wrote this book is because actually this book started being written during COVID.

I feel like it was a long time ago, but that's how long it takes to write a book.

So this was 2022, and it really came out of a burden, like kind of my own personal life, things I was seeing in the culture.

I remember, you know,

COVID kind of gave us this sense of courage in the comment section. And I just remember,

I remember, you know, reading things and I feel like we just got more and more aggressive,

more and more divisive, things you wouldn't say to somebody's face, you know? And then I would sometimes re-comments or see what somebody had to say about something else, and it could be anything. You know, somebody's showing a picture of their house, and they're like, why are you posting couches? That's a trigger for some people. People don't like sofas. And you're like, What? I don't... And then you will go look at their profile and it'd be like, child of the king.

And you're like, what? I don't, and then you will go look

at their profile, and they'd be like, child of the king, and you're like, ah, which king? Because

it was, so it was like, man, and the thing that was heavy for me is that I didn't think the church

was leading the way. And so we led the way on social justice in some things.

We talked about politics. We talked about the health situation, the pandemic, but man, we

weren't talking about what it meant to remain unified. And so that was a heaviness for me.

And then personally, I remember having this moment, and you have probably had this, whether it's praying

for a friend or a sibling or a parent or a spouse, I was really talking to the Lord about my

amazing husband, and I was explaining to him how if he would just change these two things about

my husband, then life would be really great because that's what you're doing marriage.

You talk to the Lord about your spouse.

And so, but you've prayed that prayer for your kids to fix something or to fix a friend,

fix a sibling, whatever.

And if you listen long enough after you'll amen and don't just get up and go about your

business, if you sit there for a minute, then the Lord will tell you this prayer needs to be

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