Yay, you're here. I'm Lisa Whittle, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, affectionately known as Joe, a short practical podcast where we will not be perfect, we will be honest, and we will talk a lot about Jesus along the way.

Surprise! I have something fun for you today.

It is a surprise pop-up podcast.

We've never done this before, but I'm excited about it.

I got something I want to talk to you about for just a few minutes.

This will be a short show today, but stay close because in honor of Black Friday,

I have a special something just for you.

Like you, I wear about 10 different hats on a daily basis.

Some of you who just listen to the podcast may not even know I write books and speak.

That's actually the way I started

in ministry. Well, actually not really. I started in ministry when I was born into a pastor's family,

right? Yeah, I'd say it went farther back than writing and speaking for sure. And really,

my first ministry endeavor, I would say, in a leadership role was launching a Mops group, Mops

mothers of preschoolers. It was at our church when my son was only about four months old, my oldest

son. We went to a large church, and I remember thinking, why in the world is there no group

for mothers of young children? Because I needed one

myself. And so I started one. That's how a lot of ministries are born. That's how a lot of books are

written. We look for something that we can't find. And so we do it ourselves. And that's really how my

leadership in ministry started. Don't know if you know that. I think sometimes we look at someone who's

doing a lot of things and we think they started where we came into their life. So I have that word

to encourage you today. If you have something that you want to do, maybe a goal, a dream,

don't judge where you should be by the advanced picture of someone else's life.

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