Hi friends, it's Francesca Price here. You know those conversations you have with a friend

where you leave and think that just changed a part of me in the best way. That is what this

episode is giving us today. Some of our best Grove girls, Rachel Baldwin, Carrie Stanfill, and Susan Robinson

share a stunning conversation on the strength of community.

With practical encouragement to become known in a real way,

these girls impact what it means to live out the kind of connected life

that doesn't just look good on paper,

but actually carries you through real, hard, and flourishing

seasons. As our friends share their stories and wisdom, our prayer is that you are moved toward

the holy, life-giving journey of finding your people and building the kind of community we

long for because we were created for it. Let's start here. Settle in, get comfortable, and let's lean in.

Welcome to the Grove podcast. I am so excited to be here with my sweet friends Carrie and Rachel, who

are going to talk about loneliness with me. And you two have been a big part

of combating loneliness in my own life, whether we're praying together or serving at a camp

together and doing crazy things like cold plunging after a walk. You guys have meant so much to me

in this area of my walk. But that is not

always the case for people. Sometimes they don't have people to walk through life with, or even when we

do, it may still feel very lonely in our own lives. We're surrounded by people, but can still

feel lonely. So we want to have an honest conversation about that

today. We want to talk about what God has to say about loneliness, but also what it means to be a

real human being walking this out every day. I was looking into some statistics around the state

of loneliness in our world, and I was pretty blown away by the fact that

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