Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the podcast today is Friday, May 31st, episode number

700 and 73. Normally I have a guest on for Friday, but there were so many things on my heart today

that I decided I was going to take a day and talk about what it means to shine, really shine for the

Lord in the culture today. And it may not be what you're thinking. Stick around. I think you're going

to be encouraged.

So wow, 31st of May, I can't even believe it. My husband and I are in Columbus, Ohio right now for the

Teach Them Dilligently Conference. We are so excited to be partnering with Teach Them Dilligently for this season of

my speaking. And I just want to encourage you wherever you are, if you have a chance to come out and say hello at any of the

conferences I'm at, particularly at Teach Them Dilligently, I would love to see you. The next event that I'll be at is my son's

graduation from our homeschool. That's right. I'm feeling a little melancholy this week. It's probably going to drag on for

a little while. But you know what? That's our job as parents, right? Is to raise our children like arrows in the hands of a warrior. And

it's launching time for my son Spencer. So we're excited about that. I'd appreciate your prayers as you think about our

family and the many, many, many families who are launching children out into the world this season. It is a fearful thing to release an

arrow. And that's what we've been doing, right? We spend our whole lives preparing our children to hopefully stand for righteousness in the

culture. And that's part of what I want to encourage you to do today as we're, I'm going to be talking a little bit about what it means to

embrace what God embraces. And so I thought I would take a couple of, a couple of moments today to read some headlines, talk about a little bit what's going on in the

culture. And then turn your attention back to the word of God. Because as I'm always saying here, God isn't silent. He's not silent on the issues that we're facing. He's not

unaware. He's not ambivalent. And he does not want us to be silent unaware or ambivalent either. So that's going to be my folks today. I want to encourage you if

you haven't done it already. Now is a great time to start scripture writing with me over at mom strong international. I've been trying to remember to read the

verses that I have on the, whatever date is that we're doing. And so today is the 31st of May. This is the last day of the scripture writing challenge for the month of

May a brand new one starts tomorrow. And these come with a copy work for your children. They're also available in Spanish now. And you can register for free. Just go

over to momstronginternational.com. I'm telling you I've been saying this for many years. I'm going to keep saying it as long as Lord gives me breath. God's word says that his word, the Bible is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. And we have never needed a lamp and a light like we do right now. So

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