Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

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Welcome to Susie Larson Live. Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, you know, we live in a world that many of us would say we don't

really even recognize anymore. You know, there's new landscapes of hostility and division and

accusation all around us, and we have seemed countless opportunities to be offended.

Deep family and friendship roots have been severed by

issues of the day, as if issues are more important than our relationships with ones we love,

how do we get here? Have mercy, Lord. Well, my guest today writes this, how did we lose kindness,

goodness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? He further writes,

Jesus is the one who offers a way of being human that's both strong and tender enough to tear down

these walls. So contrary to what maybe you're seeing all around you, we can recover goodness,

beauty, and kindness once again. Rich Veloda, I know I'm going to, I have him so psyched out that I've already pronounced

his name wrong. Villadus. Rich Villadus joins me today to talk about his book, Good and Beautiful

and Kind, becoming whole in a fractured world. And that's what today's conversation is about,

is wholeness. It's about becoming whole again. So you know, I love it when you text me. It's like my love language. So here's a

question. Tell me this. Okay. What's good in your life? Or maybe what's beautiful in your life?

Or what in your life? Where in your life are you seeing God's kindness? Pick one of those.

What would you say in your life right now is good? What's beautiful? Or where do you see displays of God's

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