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It's only just a matter around. Because we just won't do dance. You don't have to know how to ever since and since we've got you late. Welcome.

Welcome to Middays.

I'm Susie Larson.

So honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day,

that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk that deep in your understanding of God's word

and that heightens your awareness of God's very real presence in your life. Well, my guest today writes this. In times of

doubt, fear, and loss, we turn to the songs and hymns that remind us that this world is not all

there is, that what awaits us as followers of Jesus is a heavenly kingdom. A.C. Collins joins me

today to talk about his latest book, Stories Behind the Songs and Hymns

About Heaven.

Ace Collins has written a number of books like Stories Behind.

And this one, Stories Behind Songs and Hems About Heaven, if you love to read a good story

and why, how these songs that we turn to a time and time again were birthed.

We've got five copies.

Love to get a copy in your hands

if you want to enter the drawing. If you listen often enough, you know the drill, but I also know

we've got new listeners tuning in all of the time. So this is how you do it. You text the word book,

nothing else, not books, not book exclamation point, not even book smiley face. And there's a reason

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