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Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Thanks for joining me today at the podcast, and

I hope you guys had a very merry Christmas. We had a great Christmas with our family a little

bit smaller this year because not everybody was around. It was much smaller compared to

Thanksgiving, the Thanksgiving extravaganza, but still wonderful with our seven kids and

our in-law-in-laws, I guess, is how you say it. So we've had a great Christmas, and we

hope you guys have had a great Christmas too. A couple things on my mind today, sort of

first in the way of an announcement. I'm going to be in San Diego on the fifth and sixth,

and I will be speaking for a women's conference there. I'll link back to that today at the

podcast. If you are in San Diego and you need to shot in the arm, I believe this is a conference

for moms in particular, and I'm going to be spending that weekend just talking about

God's heart for mothers and the role that moms play in the lives of their kids. And it cannot

be understated. And you guys know me and my passion for mothers and for encouraging moms,

but I think probably more than any other time in my life, certainly in 2016, we saw this

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