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Jennifer, I am so happy to have you here with us.

Now, you and I have known each other for years, and I know that

you are so uniquely qualified to speak to our topic today. Interruptions. And this isn't just

because of a personal interruption that you've experienced, but mostly because of how I have

seen you personally respond in ministry to these interruptions. Thanks so much for joining me.

I am so glad to be with you, Kirk.

So Jennifer, we're talking about interruptions.

And for those who aren't familiar with your story

and how you were diagnosed with a rare eye disease

that led to a very challenging interruption in your life. Could you just talk a little

bit about that? Well, yeah. I mean, talk about an interruption, because here I am 15 years old,

and I've got nothing but a bright future ahead of me. And Kirk, you know this. I loved to draw.

That was my thing, art. And, like, I would love to just, like, study people's faces. And then I would create these caricatures. You know, I'd exaggerate their features to try to catch their personalities. And I remember just sitting outside and studying a sunset and then painting it. I just loved art. And I remember one day in high school, or I'm sorry,

at the end of junior high, I was making a banner for our field day. And I was sketching this lion.

And as I did, I noticed all these little dots everywhere, like someone had gotten eraser dust or maybe

marked it with a pen. And I kept trying to wipe it off and I couldn't remove it. And my friend who

was helping me ask what I was doing. And I complained about how dirty, you know, the sheet was

that I couldn't get it to clean up. And she said, Jennifer, this is perfectly clean. I don't know what you're talking about.

Well, that was the first indication that something was wrong with my eyes. So very quickly,

after that my mom had me at an eye doctor, and then we were at an eye hospital. And after a few

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