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Well, hello, this is Craig McConnell

and this is the Ransom Heart Podcast for this week.

And welcome.

I hope these are enjoyable, encouraging, and enlightening for you. encouraging and I'm

doing something a little different today.

I'm actually in our studio alone.

John's not in on this session.

And I'm doing something I feel very vulnerable doing.

I'm actually going to be reading to you some stories that I've written. Some of these stories in this series of readings

you can find on my blog. If you go to rats of heart.com you'll see that there's a Craig's

blog and a John's blog, not necessarily in that order. And some of these stories can be found there,

along with others, and some are simply stories

that I'm hoping will be put together in a book someday.

I'm kind of constructing that right now.

As you heard in a previous podcast, we talked about my writing and how personal vulnerable that feels and so I'm feeling

that now is I am read this particular journal entry that I wrote that I gave the title giving

what we don't have.

We live with a grievous void. Much of what God desired for us as children can only

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