Welcome to Inklings. I am Emily Bell Freeman, and I'm so excited to welcome you to a space where you and I get to experience a hint of something more together.

This is a community where we lean into discussions that will help us obtain a bedrock understanding of the doctrines of Christ.

Not overnight, but every day better.

Strength gathered over time. There is a place for you here. Looking forward to spending this

semester with you as we embark on a journey focused on becoming his.

Hello everyone.

Happy Thursday.

I'm feeling like it's kind of a big deal that I get to say that today.

I'm Grace, if you don't know me, Emily's my mom. I don't even know if I'm the first angling since she's been gone. Everyone, am I? I don't really know if I'm the first one

since she's been gone. But my mom is in the who knows where, somewhere by the ocean, okay? and she is on a church trip with my dad and so

it is me here today and we're having a fun guest you guys we can't wait so anyways i first should say

that i'm feeling spoiled and lucky to be here okay i can't wait that that gets to be my lucky day and i

hi hi this is a surprise i didn't know it was going to be you grace well surprise it's a surprise for

everyone it was even a surprise for me at last night at 8 p.m.

So it's everyone's having a surprise. My mom texts to me and she said, hello, I'm thinking that you should do inklings tomorrow at 8.30 a.m. I said, and I'll be there. Yeah, and I was thinking the same thing. Yes, and I said, of course I will.

But I do feel like I need to warn all the inklings people

that I know that there are going to be some things that I am forgetting that I need to do

or all of those things. But here we are.

The only instruction when I asked Emily, like, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to

know? She's like, just be sure to say happy Thursday, everyone. And in the back of my mind, I wanted to say happy Wednesday just to, you know, throw every, but I was like, no, this is serious. You've got to take the instructions seriously.

No, and I want you to know that I was getting ready for this and sweet Trenton was downstairs

with me outstreet all my makeup and all my hair. He said oh this is kind of a big day. You want inklings

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