Good morning, everyone, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, and welcome to this week's weekly energy boost.

My name is Elie Sheva, and it is a glorious Monday morning here in Los Angeles.

I am blessed to be joined by

Yehuda Yashirun once again, back, back again in the hot seat with me. Today we are talking

about talking to God. And as always, every week, the weekly energy boost is your seven-day spiritual weather forecast, where we try to provide our listeners with the most powerful and practical tools to navigate the coming seven days, to take the opportunities that are coming our way, and to avoid the pitfalls.

This week, specifically, the toll-free line to the upstairs office is on constantly.

And we want to better understand how to use that the tool, what it's for, what does it really mean?

There's so much to talk about.

We've obviously had episodes on prayer, meditation, intention.

I mean, if this is your first episode on the topic, you can go back in here in our archives, of course.

But today, really when thinking about when, it wasn't today, but when thinking about what we have to talk about

in this week's episode I always think about and I'm dating myself here when I was a

kid I read a book by Judy Blume called Are You There God? It's me Margaret same

so I guess I'm not dating myself because we're not the same age I'm glad to hear

it's still out there and it's still being read.

But basically, this cute little girl, I think she was 10, would talk to God just like that.

And she would really say, are you there, God?

It's me, Margaret.

And then continue the conversation.

And I've always encouraged my children to do the same, that it literally is that simple,

that even though this week there is a special gift are in a way, you know, let's say figuratively,

there is a mountain between us and the creator, the universe,

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