Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of Christ with coffee on ice. I am your host,

Ali Yost, and it is a joy and honor to be back with you guys on another Friday. Happy Friday.

I hope that you guys had a great week. I hope that we are feeling good. Also, it's Valentine's Day.

Hi, guys. Happy Valentine's Day. I didn't even realize that until like right before we started

recording. I was like, oh my gosh, it's literally Valentine's Day today. So I hope that you guys

are having a special day. It's already special for me because I get to spend it with you guys.

And it's funny because I was sitting with the Lord this morning and I was like, God, I literally

have no idea what we're going to talk about today. I need your guidance. And there is a particular topic that is going to feel so left field, like out of left field considering what today is. And I was like, God, are we really going to talk about that on Valentine's Day? Like, shouldn't we kind of make it around the day? And then And he was like, well, it's a good thing that you don't submit to the day of the month. You submit to my spirit.

And I said, right. I said, you're right. So we're just going to listen to the Lord. Also, okay, before we get into anything, okay, let's slow down, Allie. Okay. We have our coffee on ice. So we have our Christ. We've got our holy book right here, our Bible, our life, and then we have our coffee on ice. I did a pretty good job today. Again, I think it's yummy. I'm like genuinely obsessed with this cup, guys. I am so obsessed with our Christ with coffee on ice plastic tumbler. I actually use this one more than I used the glass one. And I thought the glass Tumbler was going to be like, my girl. I thought that was going to be the one that I was going to be using all the time. But the plastic one, it's just like so much more travel friendly, obviously, with the screw on top and everything. I love it. I love it. And so I know a few of you listening are probably drinking out of yours as well. So, cheers, twins.

So this is another one of those moments where I'm like, don't shoot the messenger.

I'm just here to abide.

I'm just here to relay the message of what I feel the Lord is put on my heart. And so as I was sitting with him this morning, I felt the burden to just talk about

what is going on in our country right now. Happy Valentine's Day. No, but for real, what's going on

in our country right now in the sense of like just all of the resistance and the tension between

each other. That's what I want to talk about.

I don't want to talk about like any of the really political things because that's,

that's not what I feel led to talk about by the Lord is like,

we're going to talk about this side of it.

And I feel the Lord actually guiding me to talk about how to handle conflict when it comes

to the topic of politics and how to create peace among our

brothers and sisters and our neighbors as we disagree because there has been a lot of disagreement

with this recent election and even some of the decisions that our president has been making.

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