Elizabeth Urbanoitz offers a helpful reminder.

The narrative nowadays is that every single issue that we have as an adult stems back to

something our parents did wrong.

Now, have all of our parents made mistakes?

Yep.

Are all of our sinful tendencies and weaknesses and insecurities because of our parents. No.

It's because we live in a fallen world.

It's the Reviver Hearts podcast for September 19th, 2025.

I'm Dana Gresh.

Our host is the author of Lies Women Believe, Nancy DeMoss Walgivers.

Music Nancy DeMas Walgivers. The Lewis Carroll's classic children's story through the looking glass, Alice has a humorous, though somewhat confusing, conversation with Humpty Dumpty.

She's just done some arithmetic to show him that of the 365 days

in the year, 364 of them were non-birthdays, or as Humpty puts it, un-birthdays. Let me read.

Humpty said, that sum shows that there are 364 days when you might get un-birthday presents. Certainly, said Alice,

and only one for birthday presents you know. There's glory for you. I don't know what you mean by

glory, Alice said. Humpty-dumpty smiled contemptuously. Of course you don't, till I tell you. I meant

there's a nice knock-down argument for you.

But glory doesn't mean a nice knock-down argument, Alice objected. When I use a word Humpty-Dumpty

said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.

The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many

different things. Well, as you know, if you've read the story, Alice has lots of these kinds of

confusing exchanges with many of the characters she runs into. It's kind of funny, but it's also a little

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