I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

now.

When they first started dating in 2011, movie producer

and minister Devon Franklin and actress Megan Good seemed an unlikely match. She was the beautiful

actress often photographed on the celebrity party scene. He's the straight-laced studio executive

and ordained minister, committed to making movies with an inspirational message. Devon had also

been practicing celibacy for nearly a decade. Megan says she was ready to embrace her new found

faith and commit to a higher vision of love. Together they wrote The New York Times best-selling book,

The Weight, a set of principles they believe will bring clarity to the search for a spiritual

partnership. Devon and Megan believe that the greatest mystery is this. We can never know how long

it will take for God's plan to unfold. For Devon and Megan, that waiting period was a miraculous

opportunity for deeply personal reflection and transformation.

Well, I remember when you all were going to appear on CBS this morning with Gail and Gail was here

for the weekend and she was reading the book cover to cover and she brought the book to breakfast

and she had the book at the end. I got what is in the book? And shortly after you were on The New

York Times is a bestseller. And I got to say, I never imagined this being a New York Times bestseller.

In 2016, a couple writing a book about The Weight, waiting to have sex until you actually get married,

resonating with a public to the point of being a bestseller. Because I couldn't imagine people

saying, oh, a book about waiting, let me go get that. In a culture where there's so many messages

on the opposite side, a message like this cuts through. Well, it's interesting because the last

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