Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to the Angels and Awakening podcast. I'm your host and author, Julie Jansis.

Friends, today there's no intro, no ad. It's just you and I. I don't think I've ever told you

this story. Sometimes when you've done over 700, almost I think 750 episodes now, it can be easy to be like,

did I tell this story before?

I don't think I have. So interestingly enough, and I'll tell you this story kind of coming up,

I was in meditation a couple weeks ago and heard Spirit tell me to go on this trip. Well, I went over to Ireland, and while I was there,

I was thinking a lot about my grandmother, my grandma Harris, who was my dad's mom. And she was

so Catholic, so religious, that the woman was in church

twice a week, if not every single day, going, praying the rosary, lighting a candle,

making a donation. And she had such an energy to her, such an aura to her of just complete faith, complete trust,

looking back, just following the breadcrumbs too of wherever God, universe source, was leading her, come from

two sides of the family, both my mom and my dad's side, that were very much that way

throughout the generations. And I grew up, my dad always, it was kind of funny story,

he always thought he was Irish, more Irish.

And one of the last conversations that I had with my dad was after he took like a 23 and

me test and found out that, you know, all his life, he had this Irish pride.

I think my grandma too.

And then finding out that he was more French and English than Irish through the 23 and

me test was kind of comical.

But my grandma used to tell this story about feeling this calling to go on a spiritual

retreat herself.

I think it was to some sort of Catholic retreat for women. She went and when she got there, she felt called to just kind of like

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