You're listening to episode 134 of the God Center Mom Podcast with me, Heather McFaggin.

Today I'm chatting with my friend Andrea Howie.

I did grieve and there were definitely tears to follow, but I felt like God was just

giving me such a sweet taste of how His goodness can supersede and overtake the kind of grief

that steals your joy and the kind of grief that makes you stay huddled under covers and

not able to get up out of bed.

It's just that He was just calling me onward and bored.

There's a scripture and joke.

It's in the living Bible and I think it's 179, but in the way that it paraphrases it

in this particular translation, it says, and the right just move onward and bored.

And it just felt like there's just a time and place where it comes to, yes, this happened.

This horrible thing happened in my life.

And yes, I'm allowed to grieve and it's a healthy thing to grieve, but at some point you

just have to know that the righteous move onward and bored.

Okay, you know I'm always on your case about your gift and your talent and how God's given

you these things for His purpose and maybe you don't even see it right now and feels

hidden.

Well, today's guest, Andrea Howie, had no idea they got it given her a gift until she

met the hardest season of her life.

In an effort to embolden her faith, she started handwriting, scripture, and quotes from books,

and even had to Google what it was she was doing, which is hand lettering.

Now that gift got us used to bless thousands of people, including myself and the Holy

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