Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Here's the podcast from Middays with Susie Larson.

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Well, it's only just a matter of. ever since, ever since we've got you late. Welcome to Mid-Days, I'm Susie Larson.

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 work, and that heighten your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, you think about it. Everybody loves a new beginning.

We love it when we finish strong, too. I'm on the home stretch. You've been hearing a little bit

about it running towards my next book deadline. On Saturday night, Lord willing, I will push send

on this manuscript, the longest one I've ever written written 120,000 words. I'm so brain tired,

but I'm so ready to be done. And I love crossing the finish line. So yeah, we love beginnings.

We love good endings. Not very many of us love the middle. In fact, there's even a term that

authors often use. They call it the saggy middle. It's when your book droops in the middle and it kind of loses its luster. Well, my guest today, she's a former lawyer. She's a best-selling author,

national speaker. I'd say she's got about the best smile I think I've ever seen. And she's

here to tell us why the middle of everything matters so very much. It's where we tend to lose

heart. It's time we tend to lose steam. We tend to wish we were in somebody else's story.

But the middle matters.

And I know we've got young and old men and women who listen to this show.

This isn't about just about middle age.

It's about valuing the middle phases of your life.

Lisa Joe Baker joins me today.

She writes this, let's relish the middle.

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