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Well, Brighthearters, a new year is upon us.

We hope that you had a blessed Christmas and New Year's,

and that you're ready to set out into this new year that God's given us with zeal and faith.

As we've said before, there's a way in which every single episode

of Brightheart is really brought to you by you, the listener. There wouldn't be much point of this

whole thing after all without you. But whenever we do a series like the one we're in the middle of

now on being human, we get dozens and dozens of questions from listeners far and wide,

sometimes a dozen or two

every day. So here at the start of a new year, we're taking an episode to work through some of

those great questions from you, Faithful Brightheart listeners. And if you have your own questions

for us, you can send them our way using the send us a text button in the podcast description.

We can't answer those texts, but we do see each one of them and pick some of them for our regular Q&A episodes like this one.

Thanks for listening, and now on with the show.

The breathing you just heard is Penelope Ren Sovey, welcoming you to another episode of Brightheart.

Hello people. That's Lexi. Happy 2026. Yeah, happy 2026, guys. It's January 5th on the release day of this

episode. The eve of your birthday. You should have seen Lexi's face light up just now. And the reason is

because she's probably already bought all of my birthday presents for both this year and next year,

even though it's November as we record, which, of course, I have done the same thing. Of course.

I'm prepared completely for Christmas, birthdays, all the, you know, all the time.

We are joined by Penelope. Penelope, why don't you say hi to the people? Can you say hi? She tried. No, she doesn't like. She's like, I don't like this. She's like, no, I'm doing. What is this thing? Well, everybody, welcome back again and welcome. Happy 2026. We hope you're starting the year really well that you have recovered on sleep from staying up until midnight, which is 930 for us here in the Sovey household on New Year's Eve and beckoned in the new year. You're going to have to tell us in the comments in the, like, how is 2026? We're not there yet. You let us know. Is it going well? Has a meteor struck the

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