In today's unsettling times, it's good to know that Jesus is walking with us in the present

and that there's hope for our future.

Jesus today is a devotional from Sarah Young that will inspire and encourage you with assurances from scripture that God is still

in control. You can get Jesus today at Jesus Calling.com or your favorite bookseller.

All of these heartache things have been a gift in my life because when you have the curled up in the fetal position pain,

you also get to experience and understand what

unbelievable beautiful amazing joy is.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast.

This week we speak with two women who remind us that even though life is always changing, God

is always with us, and we can rely on him for peace and joy.

Author and speaker, songwriter Ashland Grace.

Don Barton's joy is, as she says, unstoppable, and she's on a mission to tell the world that

despite all the countless things in our lives that are out of our control, there is one thing

we can absolutely control. We can choose to embrace joy.

Dawn has come to this realization after walking through more heartache than most can imagine.

But through it all, Dawn has seen God redeem so many of her darkest moments and use those times to transform herself

and the people around her, which she shares in her new book, Laughing through the ugly cry.

I am Don Barton and I am a woman who has been in the world of sales for 30 plus years and I was a

top producer in a direct sales company Mary Kay Cosmetics and I was a number

seven sales director in the company and I had a dream that I fully admit makes me sound

a little koo koo koo

but I had a dream to write this book and I left everything that I knew

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