I think when things are going well like you might be like oh thank you God and I know you're there and but it's not like you're down on your knees necessarily like really pleading and asking and so I think that sometimes it's those most dire moments that figuratively bring you to your knees and literally bring you to your knees that really strengthen that relationship with God. Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast.

Today's guests share that despite challenges we face, we can choose to bring joy and light to the

dark corners.

Emmy Award-winning journalist and author Lindsay Davis, an inspirational mother and daughter Angela and Grace Anna

Rogers.

Lindsay is a correspondent for ABC News and has filed stories for World News, Good Morning America, and Nightline.

Falling in love with storytelling at an early age, Lindsay tried her hand at public speaking for the first time in church.

Her faith in God has been key to her compassionate style of

reporting and her desire to spread a message of hope to a world where the news

isn't always good. My name is Lindsay Davis. I'm a correspondent for ABC News, a mom, a wife, and a book author.

Both of my parents started out actually as school teachers. My dad taught math and my mom

taught English and my dad went on to open his own construction company but and my mom

mom has subsequently retired as an English teacher but she's the person that kind

of made sure that I know you know the difference between like when you say done

like her common phrases like turkeys get done and people get finished and so the

person that was like always making sure that I you know get lay versus lie right

but I would I would say that versus lie, right?

But I would say that she's also very much responsible for my kind of falling in love with

storytelling and with writing and English language.

My mom has always been a big writer and spend a lot of time in our house, you know, writing and kind of modeling that for me and certainly like she loves to tell the story.

Now she's like introducing me or something that I got mad at her

she says when I was a certain age and I said you know why did you tell me that these

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