Hello and welcome back to the Amis for Mama podcast in the year of 2025.

I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, Happy Wife, Mama to 10, Bible Believing Christian, and I am so excited

to be with you guys in this new year and to share with you more of the goodness of God

to bring on guests who are glorifying to him and will help you in your everyday life and

practical ways and just to get to chat with you guys. I'll be at one-sidedly. And I enjoy so much

just getting to share little tidbits of my life or things that the Lord is teaching me

are ways that he is guiding my path and hearing back from you, that it resonates with you,

that has been practically helpful to you, that it's encouraging, convicting as God's

word always is, and that's what I strive to do, is incorporate as much of God's word as possible

into each and every episode episode regardless of the topic.

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kids will love. Okay, friends, I want to briefly talk to you guys about the concept of expectations and how we are called

as Christians, as believers in God's word, as people who are led by His Holy Spirit in everything

we say and do to rely on him and to trust in his sovereignty, but also to act.

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