If we had our best interest in mind, we would be doing what God says. But like, we can only know that to be true if we know who God is.

Hello, hello, hello, ladies and gents. My name is Kirby Kelly and welcome to this week's episode of the Bot and Beloved podcast.

Before I dive into today's episode and before we talk about today's topic, which is a good one, if you clicked to listen to tune in, you already know what it is we're talking about and who I'm going to talk about it with.

I just want to mention that if you are watching this, you're probably viewing it on my brand new channel that is dedicated to the podcast.

So if you are listening and tuning in this way, you've probably heard me say that the podcast is on the Kirby is a boss YouTube channel, but I've decided that I just want to make a YouTube channel that is completely dedicated to the podcast alone.

So the the handle for that because now YouTube does handles with that the handle for that is bot and beloved podcast.

You can look that up. You can tune into all the episodes that are already out on video, but that is where I have more episodes coming out.

So you're definitely going to want to tune in because we got some really good episodes, amazing guests, really cool series coming up.

And if you want to watch it more than just listen to it, that's the place to go again bot and beloved podcast on YouTube.

But let's now dive into what it is that we're here to talk about. I have an amazing guest with me today, a good friend of mine, Tara Sun.

She's joining me and we are going to be talking about all things control and what that looks like to trust God in every circumstance in life.

Or maybe in areas where you don't want to surrender or you don't really see God in control in certain areas of your life, that we can know he is present, that we can know that he is there, we can know he's good.

So before we dive in, Tara, let us know a little bit about who you are, what you do, what you're passionate about, all the good things for those of the listeners and viewers who don't know who you are.

Yes, Kirby, bot and beloved fam. Thank you for having me here today. I am so honored. This is one of my favorite shows personally, and it's just the coolest to be able to be your pal and to be on here.

Your time is so valuable, and I just look up to you so much. So thank you for having me here. My name is Tara, middle name son, by the way, for those that's just a little tidbit. Some people think it's my last name, but like, just throw my little like, it's funny because it's like my Korean middle name and also like my American middle name.

It's wild, but.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, over on Instagram, and also I have my own podcast, Truth Talks with Tara, Kirby has been on that show before.

Yes, so much fun. Basically, just everything that I do online with a podcast and the Instagram, and now the book that I just wrote is just helping women to know love and live God's words with three things because I really believe my passion, like you asked is just to help us know no God's word.

And then when we know God's word will love it and then we'll be able to live it. So how do we take that into practical action. So that's just kind of what I'm passionate about ministry wise. I'm also a wife and a mom to a almost year old little guy hunter.

He is just the sweetest. So we just we live and serve the Lord here in Oregon and just love this small town life and yeah, wifeing, mommy, and ministry, all the things. And I'm really excited to talk about surrender your story today with you guys.

And Tara is killing it, y'all. If you've not, if you don't follow her on Instagram or have listened to her podcast, you need to do it because she puts out really good content.

And I'm not just saying that because I was on the podcast like you put out really good content. You do. I'm always encouraged by your posts. And I'm so happy to have you on here because it's not just like, okay, let me have another guest on here and we talk about their book or anything like that. But like you are genuinely a friend of mine and ministry. And like it is so cool to see you just thriving and becoming a wife now being a mom and now giving birth to this new life of a book.

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