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I'm Ali Cassaza, and this is the Purpose Show.

Hi friends, I'm so excited to be sitting down and talking to you today.

Taking a deep breath because this episode is going to be kind of intense. It's going to be a lot more serious, I guess.

And I've actually been a little worried about feedback on this one, but you know, usually I found that whenever I feel that way, it just more so means that it needs to be shared.

And maybe we'll kind of roll off some people's backs and maybe they'll kind of scratch their heads and be like, I didn't really buy it with that.

But maybe there are other people who really take to it and really need to hear it. So I'm going to share it. And we'll see how it goes.

So I was talking about this episode with my husband, Brian, and just telling him, like, I think I'm going to need to make a joke before I record this that, like, I'm not a psychedelic drug user.

I'm just going to be sharing, like, something that came into my mind while I was having some quiet time and practicing meditation, which I've talked about a lot here on the show, and I'm a firm believer in.

But people get weird about that sometimes. So anyway, I won't joke about that. But I've just been practicing meditation for a while now, a couple years now.

And more recently in the last, you know, six to 12 months, I've been really practicing just sitting in stillness with almost no agenda.

Sometimes if I'm really burdened or just feeling really heavy, I will kind of have a little bit of an agenda, like, I want to think about this question that I'm struggling with the answer to or think about this problem that I'd really like to know what to do about.

And I'll kind of go into meditation thinking on that a little bit. But usually I go into meditation in the same way every time, whether I'm by myself in my home or if I'm going to a class, I go in prayerfully and just asking God to sit with me and show up with me.

And show me whatever it is that he needs me to see because my life is very full and loud and busy and my kids are home, you know, homeschooled. So they're here all the time. And there's very little opportunity for quiet and for me to hear his voice.

And so meditation is really a time where I quiet my mind intentionally and I quiet my life. And I say I value my faith and I value stillness and I value what you would have to say to me, God, so I want to make time to hear you.

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