in adult life, even children's lives, so often involve suffering that's inexplicable or sudden

or terrifying or just low-key depression.

And there needs to be places in our churches and in our services where we are able to bring

that before God.

Right now. services where we are able to bring that before God. I'm bright out of favor. And he has the ocean

Welcome to the deconstructionist podcast.

I'm your host John Williamson.

And Adam Narlock is not here, but he sends his holiday love to all of you.

And he'll be back hopefully. Hopefully we'll, well, I'll see his face. You won't, guys won't see his face. You'll hear his beautiful voice, but I'll get to see what I think might be, um, the most perfect hair, uh, the world has ever seen. Uh, I wish you guys could see just how flawless Adam's hair is at all times.

I don't think it's moved in four years.

I don't know, but it is a breath to behold.

So anyway, enough about Adam's hair.

We're here to talk about this week's guest.

And this week's guest, I'm very excited about this was another author that my dad clued me into. gave me one of her books a while back and really thought it would be appropriate for the holidays something that we try to do or at least

have tried to do over the last several years is find a guess maybe that that might be helpful

for those who going into the holiday season, maybe it's

not the easiest time for them. We want to be very cognizant of the fact that the holidays aren't

happy and joyous for everyone. Some of us are very, very fortunate. It's a very merry and

enjoy a season, but for some folks out there, maybe you are going into the holidays,

maybe you're walking into Christmas this year for the first time without a loved one or, you know,

some tragedy maybe happen to hit home at some point around the holidays. And so maybe it's,

maybe it's a rough time for you. And so we've tried to bring on some guests maybe that,

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