In times like these, we all need a word of encouragement. From pastor and best-selling author Max

Lukato comes the Max Lucato encouraging Word podcast with over 40 years of ministry and more than

145 million books sold in 50 languages. Max shares the greatest story ever told, the living

savior who brings hope for a lifetime through rich, biblical insight, heartfelt storytelling.

You'll be reminded that god is always

near always for you and always in you listen to the max lukato encouraging word podcast where hope

meets your day subscribe now wherever you get your podcast life audio most of us think that hope means

that the pain goes away but what if it meant that God shows up and meets us in the middle of the hurt that we're going through? That is what we are talking about in today's episode.

Hello, hello, hello, ladies and gents and welcome to this week's episode of the Botten Beloved podcast. As always, it's a girl Kirby Kelly. And man, it has been a day, a week, a month, a couple of months. As you guys know, if you are watching or if you are listening, I'm pregnant. I am in my third trimester and not only is my baby coming soon, like literally in a few weeks.

I mean, she could come literally whenever she wants, which is the craziest part about all this.

But in the midst of pushing out a baby, I am pushing out a book as well, which is crazy.

You've probably heard me talk about it here and there on the podcast. I've also had some really awesome guests on recently, and I'm going to have some

incredible guests covering my maternity leave with me. And I'm super excited for all those interviews,

because literally, I feel like I have some of the, like Christian giants, like the Christian

Mount Rushmore's who are coming onto my podcast. And that's going to be not only a treat for y'all,

but it was already a treat for me when I interviewed them. But I'm also pushing out this book,

The Fabric of Hope, which comes out on April 7th. And leading up to that in the what, like three weeks, four weeks leading up to that,

I want to do a series specifically on hope. And I want to use the word hope as an acronym. And we're

going to dive through different topics surrounding the idea of hope. And today, the letter H, we are going to be talking about hurt.

But before I do that, I just want to let you guys know that you can still pre-order the book.

And this is why pre-order is the best time to buy a book. Because most authors, whenever they

offer their book for pre-order, it can come with all sorts of cool freebies and just

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