Hi, I am Cynthia Wynworth.

And I'm Susan Hinkley.

And this is at last she said it.

We are women of Faith discussing complicated things. Today's title of our

episode is The Process of Staying A Few More Thoughts. A Few More Thoughts. Few More Thoughts and more thoughts and our episode we just released on Tuesday of this week is

getting such good traction with our listeners they they really are engaging a

lot with us that we thought why don't we

go to our original your original document Susan that you wrote about the

process of staying.

Yeah, I'm not sure why I've never shared that on this podcast before. I've certainly shared a lot of ideas and thoughts, you know, that originated in that piece.

Yeah, I figure it's a good dessert for our episode this week.

Well Susan go ahead and tell us a little bit about this essay and then you can read it.

As I mentioned in this week's episode, I first used the phrase,

the process of staying four years ago in an essay I delivered at a symposium.

I had been asked to speak to the question of why I stay. And the journey of writing that essay

was a life-changing experience for me. I'd never formally asked myself, and the thought of

answering it in front of hundreds of people was terrifying for someone

who's usually too terrified to make a comment in gospel doctrine.

It was the beginning of speaking up, using my real voice in front of real people to not only answer a big question, but acknowledge it is a question for me.

I hadn't really admitted that to anyone but myself. You may have

encountered this piece before. It sort of took on a life of its own and has been

published in a variety of places, even read by voices other than my own. But it is mine, my words, and my process.

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