Well, hey everybody and welcome to the messy table, an ordinary space for us to show up and remember

that God is really at work in our mess. Well, my name is Jen Jule and I consider it such a joy

to host this faith-fueled conversation-style podcast, which unleashes a brand new story of hope

and truth into your earbuds, your speakers every other Tuesday.

Y'all, we are partnered with Women of My Church, Life Church, where we are big time fans of the

U-Version Bible app, God's Word, literally, in our pockets, for free, wherever we go.

Y'all, it's such an amazing thing to be alive at this time in history, but we also must

fight to not take it for granted. And of course, we just love locking arms with all kinds

of Jesus loving women from all over the globe, from all over the capital C church, who are willing

to share a piece of their life. So this might sound a little strange, but in this hyper-connected

world with an overload of excessively shared information, I sometimes think about the unseen,

the undocumented, the untold stories that have never gotten much press. Like not only the billions

of lives that were lived before us, before videos and media and

internet ever existed, but also just the everyday people and everyday work that's mostly

hidden from sight. Of course, nothing and all of creation is ever hidden from God, but there

are still many things and many mysteries that are hidden from us.

In fact, John 2125 is a fun verse that says,

Jesus also did many other things.

If they were all written down,

I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.

Y'all, one of my very favorite things about hosting this podcast is getting to shed some light on incredible

women and incredible stories that might otherwise stay in the dark. Like Revelation 1211 tells us,

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