Welcome to Inklings. I am Emily Bell Freeman, and I'm so excited to welcome you to a space where you and I get to experience a hint of something more together.

This is a community where we lean into discussions that will help us obtain a bedrock understanding of the doctrines of Christ.

Not overnight, but every day better.

Strength gathered over time. There is a place for you here. Looking forward to spending this

semester with you as we embark on a journey focused on becoming his. Hello everyone.

Happy Wednesday night.

Also, Merry Christmas Week.

I'm super excited for tonight.

I wondered if we might be smaller in number and a little cozy because it's the week of Christmas, everyone.

We don't know.

But we're going to be studying,

we're finishing out this book tonight. So it's our third class on Grace. If you miss the first two, you can easy go back and find them. But we're going to finish out this book

tonight is what we're going to be doing and it is

Merry Christmas week for all of you guys remember I don't do Christmas till March so it's only

kind of Christmas at my house and then we'll just go visit everyone who's having Christmas that That's what we'll do. And then we will do

Christmas in March, which will be so fun. But I'm so excited about Christmas for all of you.

Is anyone living in Denver? I'm so interested about the weather in Denver right now.

Garrett and Natalie just texted and said, it's going to be like negative 17 degrees in Denver tonight. That is so cold. Okay, and someone's

asking why we don't celebrate till March. So this is why. One of my sons is in the NFL,

and one of my other sons is in residency to be a doctor, and nobody gets to come home for

Christmas of those two families. They are like their work requires them to

not come home in December. And it's so hard for me. Like for me, Christmas is not the presence as

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