Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

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Welcome to. Because woman just won't do dance. You don't have to know how to ever since, ever since we've got you like. Welcome, welcome to middays.

I'm Susie Larson, so honored and always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day

that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

deepen your understanding of God's word, and that heighten your awareness of God's very real presence in your faith walk, deepen your understanding of God's word,

and that heighten your awareness of God's very real presence in your life.

Well, my guest today says this about brokenness.

She says, well, we wear it like a badge, proudly showing off the shattered pieces of our lives,

while still fighting the same desperate battles.

But brokenness was never meant to be the destination or your identity. It was meant to be the catalyst for breakthrough. It's okay not to be okay for a little while. But Jesus has a

plan to see your scars become success stories that reflect his glory to the people around you.

I love it. Each painful moment, she says in our lives, can lead to some kind of breakthrough.

Each painful moment in your life can lead to some kind of breakthrough. This is an important

conversation because there are some wounds we just sort of let fester deep inside and we don't do

anything about it and it affects our perspective. It affects how we relate to people. There's

others that we keep going

around and around the mountain, but we don't find any redemptive perspective, and it's like a

soul infection. But it's for freedom that Christ has set us free. Well, Jennifer Renee Watson

joins me today to talk about her book, Freedom, the gutsy pursuit of breakthrough and the

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