Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcast. I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.

Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things in life, the little things in life and everything in between.

Hey friends and welcome to another episode of the happy hour Jamie Ivy podcast. I'm your host Jamie and we've got a great show for you today.

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Find it and I'm telling you you want to know what we are about to have for you guys. I am getting excited. I'm also getting excited about our guest today Rachel Jones is here.

She's the author of here. It is a brief theology of periods. Yes, really that periods. She's also author several books and the award winning five things to pray series and she's an editor at the Good Book company.

She helps teach kids and serves on the mission core team at her church in Surrey UK. This is such a unique and interesting topic of conversation that truly we don't talk about enough and I'm so thankful for Rachel leading in this conversation.

In today's episode Rachel talks about what scripture says about women's periods and how we've been culturally raised to be secretive about periods. It's like we whisper I'm on my period.

Rachel also dives into the topic of another book she wrote, which is called is this it which talks about the infamous quarter life crisis and feeling like is this really all there is.

It's easy for us to be unhappy or dissatisfied when we have high hopes and big dreams and we feel like we're living this monotonous life. I don't know if any of you guys can relate to that.

But I love today in the conversation when Rachel says that life is short and eternity is long and it's very easy to get swept up in what now looks like or even what the next 50 years look like.

But if we really believe that we're headed to this glorious future with the Lord Jesus, then we're not going to sweat the next 50 years.

That is such good advice. Some of us can even say we're not going to sweat this weekend the next few weeks to be able to remind her that no matter what our lives look like today as a believer in Jesus Christ, we know that our future is so very very bright.

Alright friends, go subscribe to the newsletter, Jamie Ivey dot com slash newsletter. Make sure signed up. It's going to be fun you guys we're gathering. Oh, I cannot even wait. All right. All here is my conversation with Rachel.

Hey, Rachel, welcome to the happy hour.

Hello, thanks for having me. I need to let you know that we have in 2021 probably had more people from across the pond than we ever have in our entire time on the happy hour. So I'm so happy to have you on the show today.

Thank you. I'm just sad. I didn't have an excuse to come and join you out there. Wouldn't that have been lovely? Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Well, introduce yourself to all the listeners.

Yes, my name is Rachel Jones. I am VP editorial at the good book company which is a Christian publishing company. I'm also an author of a few books.

And where do you live? Tell us all those things. I live in so living southwest London just right on the very, very edge of London. So it's pretty suburban. It's not glamorous like people think living in London would be.

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