Welcome back to the Grove podcast. This is Francesca Price here, and today's conversation is a special one.

Shelly Giglio sits down with her dear friend and a longtime Grove girl, Courtney Pray Duke, to celebrate the release of her book. And she got up.

In this episode, Courtney shares the story behind

the pages, the early years of faith, building a life in ministry with her husband Andrew in the

moment everything changed when she suddenly lost him. Shelly and Courtney talk about the messy middle

of grief, what it looks like to raise three young kids will

try to survive one day at a time and how God met Courtney through his word, often in the

smallest, most sustaining ways. If you've ever felt like the bottom dropped out, if you've ever

wondered whether you're going to make it through another day. This episode is for you.

Welcome to the Grove Podcast. One of my very favorites, Courtney Pray Duke is here today. And we are thrilled to be talking about what is a pretty exciting moment. I've been in the process with you for a really long time, and we'll talk about some of that.

But in this moment, there's a book.

How exciting!

So excited! I can't believe it.

It's real.

It feels crazy to me that after all these years of walking together and after all this time of seeing God do miraculous things in your life and through your life that you've gotten now to write it down so that the whole world can read and be a part of what he's done in you.

And I'm so thankful.

So Anci got up is coming out.

Everyone is going to want to read it and be a part of what

God has done in your life, but also be encouraged that the same thing can happen in their own.

Amen. So I'm excited today just to talk about sort of where God's brought you, sort of the story of where you began on this journey.

Obviously, it goes way back, came to know the Lord really early,

which I love, and walked with God your whole life. But met Andrew early in life too, ended up

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