Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well-spent.

Annie F. Downs. I feel like half the world knows her, and if they don't,

they should want to because she's amazing. The everyday friend charm of Kelly Clarkson, I think

she kind of looks like her too. Annie, have I ever told you that? The gracious nature of a Bob

Gough? The girl goes deep with Jesus in her new book, Remember God. Annie is my friend. It has been been for years and I bet if you listen to her podcast, hear her speak,

watch her on social media, she's so amazing.

And read her books, you feel like she's your friend too.

She would say, well, that's because I am.

I love, love having you hear from Annie on here.

So listen as she shares from her heart on Jesus over everything today.

Hey friends, Annie F. Downs here. And I just want to tell you something, a discipline that has kind of come into my life

in the last few years more

intensely than ever before and it's really changed me. So in my bedroom is a plastic tub full of

journals from the last 20 years. I'm quite the journal art during most seasons. I talk a lot.

I write a lot and I tend to journal a lot. I don't run out of words for better or for

worse, but ever since I was a senior in high school, I've jotted down the stories God was telling

in my life, the way the deck was being dealt for me. They're all there, the miracles, the heartbreaks,

the tragedies, the joys, the changing of seasons and the moving of time, the faithfulness of God.

If we could all bring our tubs of journals to the same party, they would be different.

No two would be the same.

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