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Wake up was purpose. That's what I do in the morning.

I wake up. I thank God for bringing me to this day.

And then I say, please help me to do everything for your honor and glory.

Welcome to the jesusculling podcast. Change is constant in life.

Sometimes the wave of change runs its course over your life slowly.

And sometimes change creates a 180-degree turn in a moment's notice.

Whatever the circumstances, learning to be adaptable and trusting that God is in the middle with us during those changes

is key to us navigating life's turn around.

Sister Jean Schmidt was ready to retire from her role as an educator at Loyola University when she was 75 years old.

But God had different plans and Jean was called to stay on in a role to help student athletes keep their grades up.

This evolved into a position as team chaplain for the men's basketball team, which led to her renown as the basketball nun,

who accompanied the team on their improbable road to the final four.

Now at 103 years of age, Sister Jean shares her story and her great purpose in life,

which is to serve God, be faithful to Him, and to help people, no matter how much that impacts where she thought she would be at this stage in life.

I lived during the depression time. And during the depression, we knew that we had to do it out of certain things.

But sometimes when we go to the store and help our mom carry the groceries home, we'd say to her,

do you think we could have a nice cream cone today? And she'd say, no, I don't think we can.

But she said, when we go home, I'll make some snicker doodles. And that satisfied us.

So she always had an answer for something that we wanted to do and we couldn't afford it.

She never left us without it, something. But adaptability came quite easily, I think.

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