Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together.

We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's word, and builds your faith.

This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining. I am in the podcast studio with today's Devo writer, Ms. Catherine Meredith,

Mrs. Catherine Meredith, I should say. Thanks, Emma. So glad to be here. Thanks for inviting me.

Oh, you're welcome. We're back in the normal routine of life. Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving.

Did you have a good Thanksgiving? It was so great. I'm thankful to be able to have that time with family.

I love it. Well, Catherine, I know you because we served in Women's Bible Study together, and we both work here at the church.

But for those who don't know you, how did you come to know the Lord? And fast forward, where are you at today?

Great. Well, I grew up in a home where Jesus was talked about

at church, but also inside the home. And so when I was seven, we were at Pinecoe family camp,

and I had an opportunity. I had heard the truth of the gospel, but I clearly remember

feeling the moment in a conversation of just conviction from the Holy Spirit, realizing, man, I'm a sinner

and I need a savior and rescuer, and that was Jesus. And so got to go back and talk with my parents

about it and made that decision. And so grew up kind of with that knowledge, but I would say,

really in late middle school, I had an opportunity to do some Bible

studies, and I started to fall in love with God's word and see what it looks like to not only

just know stories about who God is, but to open up the Bible on my own and start to read and discover

who God says he is. I love it. And today, you fast forward.

Fast forward.

A lot of years.

A lot of years.

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