Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour Jamie Ivey podcast. I'm your host Jamie and

I'm so excited to hear with you today. Every single week I invite a girlfriend to join me on the show and we've

chatted off the big things in life, a little things in life and everything in between. Before we get to our

guests I want to tell you about a book it's called Out of the Spin Cycle. It's Devotions to Light

in Your Mother Loade by Jen Hatmaker. Following Jesus shouldn't be just one more thing on a to-do list,

Jen helps us understand through 40 devotions that creating space and time for focusing on our

relationship with God is as important as making sure our kids eat breakfast or we get them to

school on time. Which sometimes both of those things are really hard. I actually read this book when it

first came out several years ago and I loved it. I always told Jen it was my favorite book she's

written. Well, we're Val has reissued this book this fall with a brand new cover. It's a perfect

gift to give to another mom friend to encourage them, a teacher, it's a great stocking suffer for your

sister who has a lot of kids or your best friend and also ladies it's a great gift for you just by

one for yourself. Put it on your nightstand and take a few minutes every day to read it for

you to bed. The chapters are short but they're full of Jen's humor that we all love as well as

great encouragement and challenges for mom that's based on scripture. You can find these books

online at amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. Guys you're listening episode number one nineteen and my

guest is Jenger Ravela. Jenger with her husband and her family live in San Antonio just on the road

for me where they both started with a nonprofit that helps families of fallen or wounded soldiers get

an education. Jenger's world was entirely flipped upside down ten years ago when her husband's

playing crashed in Iraq. Her story of God's faithfulness, his kindness and his provision on her life and her

kids' lives over the past ten years is so moving and encouraging. Just to warn you you're gonna need some

tissues. Her and I were both crying about ten minutes into the show so if you're on a walk or on the

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