This week on Life After 50, Karen Lanksum, she's an author of a brand new book called My Simple

Prayers. It's a book about God, answering your prayers, whether you're a believer or a non-believer,

how it is that can help you get through the most difficult times, whether it's getting through

cancer, marriage disputes, a house burning down, what have you. This is a very insightful and personal

conversation, one that will make you heavily think about God and heaven. Get ready. Here is Karen Langson.

All right, so I start off every time asking the same question, you have to give the answer whether

you like it or not, is how old you oh really how many women have you asked that

you're the third one it's a pain in the neck every time yeah it's the same thing

it's like I waste three minutes on this part I'm 58 58 all right that's you don't

look 58 so that's a good thing. Thank you.

So what is it like when your house is on fire?

Oh, my goodness.

Yeah.

I mean, when you wake up and your house is on fire,

is it almost one of those things like you know that you don't even have to waste a nanosecond? My house is on fire.

You don't even worry about how it was?

Nanoseconds.

They matter.

40 seconds and my kids could have been dead from affixiation.

So that's what they told us after the fact.

So lead me into, we'll go back about how you sort of kind of felt it was going to come,

but just lead me to the point of where you are just two minutes prior to the fire starting where

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