Hello, friends, welcome back. This is the week of Thanksgiving, and today I'm going to share a

testimony to begin our conversation about gratitude and incorporating a theology of our whole

bodies into worship. I think today is going to be a unique conversation. I pray it'll be a worshipful

encounter. This might be one you want to listen to on a walk or maybe just sitting before the

Lord with your Bible open to Psalm 34. That's where we're going to be camping out today. It's going to be

an interactive worshipful encounter episode where we're weaving in worship and gratitude and an awareness of how God

design our entire bodies to literally engage him in worship, to magnify him, and to walk worthy of him

as image bearers who bless his name at all times.

Speaking of blessing his name at all times, I am going to thank him for this listener who

reached out and shared with me a message. I'm going to share it with you guys. And she says,

Hey, Francie, wanted to let you know your podcast has really blessed me and encouraged my heart

in a season of much loss.

I'm single, but your podcast and your walk with the Lord really spur me on.

My favorite part about social media is the ability to have mentors from afar.

And you've been one of those for me.

You carry the fragrance of Christ in such a unique way, and he's using you to draw others deeper.

So thank you.

So I just want to say thank you.

It is something that I want to pause and just say, thank you, God,

for the fact that we do get to encounter you and share your fragrance

and that that's an overflow of the heart.

And I'm just so grateful for you, listener, who reached out in your season of loss.

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