Hey y'all, you're listening to the Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter.

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Thanks for joining. I am in the podcast studio with today's Devo writer, Mr. Paul Howell.

Good morning, Emma. Paul, I'm so glad you're here. We just met this morning.

And so I would love to hear a little bit about you.

Who are you?

What do you do?

Well, first, I'm a husband to Jackie, my beautiful wife of 18 years.

18 years.

I'm a dad of at the time of this writing, they were younger, but now they are going to be a freshman,

sophomore, junior, and senior in high school.

Wow, every grade.

Every grade.

And a follower of Christ.

That's awesome.

And then for work, I work at a small bank.

And where do you serve at Watermark?

So I serve currently in leading a summit group.

And how long have you been doing that?

Oh, my goodness.

Seven or eight years?

Okay.

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