Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro.

I want to welcome you today, the emotionally healthy leader podcast.

Today, our theme is, among you stands one whom you do not know. Among you stands one whom you do not

known. Today is a devotional reflection in honor of Christmas and as we approach the new year

here today. So but before I begin in this amazing text out of John chapter one, one that's rarely

spoken about, especially in a season

like today, the holidays, which is one of the most difficult times to actually be attentive

to Jesus. I have always found historically that Christmas is one of the most challenging

times of the year to actually be discerning and

present to the presence of Jesus with me, between all the hurry, the additional commitments with

family and friends and church and ministry and all that. It's just so easy to miss Jesus,

who is standing right there in our midst and be attentive to him who's attentive to us.

But before I launch into this great text, I want to invite you again to prayerfully consider

joining us in our end of the year giving initiative that we're calling from mustard seed to movement.

We've been amazed and many of you have been a part of this, how emotionally healthy discipleship or emotionally healthy leader has grown over these years from a mustard sheet, actually to a global movement.

And today we're asking you to join us to prayerfully consider making an end of the year gift to help us expand and sustain this ministry around the world. Just go to

emotionally healthy.org slash give. And you'll see some pamphlets, some information about this

end of the year initiative and the impact it's having, E.H. Discipleship's having around the world.

And so it's going to go to build infrastructure, for example, to help churches and ministries, again, around the globe, connect with each other

in a way that we've not been able to up to this point. We'll be expanding what we call

the emotionally healthy spirituality and emotion-threaty relationships course around the world as well.

Again, connecting churches and the school of

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