But also when she said, I felt like I was the stump that the church was sitting on or something

like that. And what a metaphor. I guess this is my question I want to know now, is how many

women is exhaustion what triggers a big change for them just becoming a stump and they're like

enough oh yeah i'm absolutely sure that that happens hi i'm susan hinkley. And I am Cynthia Winward.

And this is at last she said it.

We are women of faith discussing complicated things.

And the title of today's episode is, What Triggered Your Faith Journey?

Pretty sure we've spent 220-some-odd episodes answering that question, Cynthia. So it's time for our

listeners to have a chance to answer that question. Yes, it is. So, meaning this is a voicemail

episode. This is a voicemail episode. And we've been calling for these voicemails ever since we

held a Friday chat where we used this as the topic.

And it was just so amazing hearing all of these women's stories that we thought we want more of them.

And we want everyone to hear them.

So I always think when I'm thinking about it last she said it, I think of the Maya Angela quote that's so well

known that is there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. And I think a lot of

times when these things happen in women's lives where a faith shift starts, it can be a long

time before they're able to say anything about what triggered

it really to anyone or about the beginnings of it.

They can carry it for years, sometimes decades, sometimes a lifetime before they start

talking about, you know, where did the problems begin?

And so that's why we thought that it would work so well in our theme for season 10

because this is an opportunity to see women navigating transition in real time. And I think a lot of

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