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What's up guys? We are back with another episode of views from the porch happy Monday as you are driving to work or grabbing lunch or whatever you're doing.

I am joined with the one and only Miss Laura Eldridge.

Hey y'all.

And as always, I am JD and we are just so excited to be with you guys today. Laura, what are we talking about? Let's just get right into it.

Today, we are talking about spiritual highs. What do you do when that feeling that you once had with God just kind of wears off?

Yeah, that is a good question. It's a relevant question because I think especially in 2020, quarantine, mask wearing, just the recent snow poccalips like all the great, we are in crazy times.

And I think sadly, our circumstances are making us more and more isolated and alone. And the more alone we get, the more it's harder and harder to keep that flame alive for the Lord to keep that passion exciting.

And you have to kind of get creative these days to kind of keep that relationship strong because people are like, oh my gosh, every day looks the same.

And my walk of God every day looks the same. It's getting so mundane.

And so I love the question. I think a lot of people experience it because here's what we do. We kind of go chase the world because it's everywhere.

And it's natural for us to want to go chase the world. And then we get there and we see there's no life in alcohol.

There's no life and going out and getting drunk or trying drugs or hooking up with people every weekend and just the same thing or whatever.

I feel miserable. I'm happy for a moment. Then it's gone. And so then we start to like somehow we intersect with God.

We get invited to the porch or we can invite a church or we get something happens or like, I'm going to try out this God thing and we become a Christian.

And at the beginning, it's like, oh my gosh, this is life. This is amazing. There's peace. I mean, I'm not as anxious or I'm finding joy. I'm finding good people.

They're about it. The Bible is really fun to read. And then boom, just like everything else.

Because we are humans, even that can start to seem stale. And it can start to seem mundane. And like, oh my gosh, I hear a lot of language.

I was like, I just haven't felt God lately or I haven't experienced God like I once did or right at the start of this. And like, you hear that language a lot.

I haven't heard from God lately. Like, what does that even mean? And so I love the conversation. And if you're listening right now and you found yourself in a dry season, I want you to know you're not alone.

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