Hey, thanks for showing up. I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus of Her Everything

show, affectionately known as Joe, where this season it is all about truth telling, finding the good,

and showing up for our lives today, no matter what has happened, even yesterday.

October, here we are. I love fall. Do you love fall?

Ah, gosh, I do. We are still in the middle of the showup season around here, but the next two shows are

going to be a little different in theme. Excited about these Wednesday shows, we're going to go behind

the scenes of your life. What's really going on that you

might not have thought about before? Something that you may have missed that's hindering you in your

healing process or growth process, calling it out on these Wednesday shows because it does us

no good for things to live behind a curtain. If you're in, I'm in, so let's get into it.

When I say the word offended, what comes to your mind?

Are you automatically offended by it?

I think offense and offended are one of those things we sort of know as possibilities for us in the back of our mind.

But we don't really want to think much about it.

And maybe we don't think much about them even.

But the truth is a lot of us are offended by this or that or someone or in a strange plot twist you may have never thought of before, offended by your life.

Now listen, this is something God really showed me when I was writing my book, The Hard Good.

A lot of my life, when something happened in my life, I've said to myself, sort of this phrase, I can't believe this happened, this thing or that thing. And that's really all I could

think and say, honestly, was how much I couldn't believe something happened, that I hadn't

wanted to have happened. I realized that that shock and disappointment was actually something

more, that it was deeper, that it was offense. I was

offended by my life, really. I was, if I really want to take it more serious, if I really even

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