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Hey, it's Kathy Heller. Welcome back to Abundant Ever After.

Oh my goodness, you guys. I was in Santa Barbara for a couple days with Zibi Owens. It was an author's retreat.

So beautiful. There's so much I want to share about this retreat. So many

incredible things that happened. So many. I feel like I should do a whole episode about it.

But one thing I can just tell you is that I was going up there, not knowing what to expect.

And there were so many unbelievably heartwarming moments of this experience.

But one thing I'll just say, when it was time for my Q&A, Zibi, she's so generous. She asked if it would be okay

if she would read my dad's essay, which I put at the back of my book. I found this essay,

for those of you who don't know, when we were finishing the book, I found this essay that my dad

had written called Lessons from the Jetty about how he used to go to the ocean every day and pray

and talk to God before he started his day. And just as we were like literally closing the book and turning it into Simon Schuster,

that was the week that my dad died.

And I found this essay and I said, I know that we're about to go to print,

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