Ever feel like you know where you're longing to be, but it's definitely not where you are right now?

What do you do with attention? These are the questions we're tackling in a new season of the

Gracely's podcast. I'm Ruth Jo Simonsons and this season we're exploring how to navigate the

tension of now and not yet because when you're not there yet, God is still at work. Grab a cup of

coffee and let's talk about it. Okay, before we get real started today, I would like you to describe for everybody that's only listening.

Ruth, what are you wearing today?

I'm kind of in a telotubbies onesie.

Okay, it's brown, and I think it's a free people knockoff on Amazon. I promise I'll put the link in the show notes.

But guys, it's the second best, it's the next best thing to like showing up in your jammies.

I look like I'm wearing normal shirt on top. Yeah. Really, it's a onesie. It's like, you know,

you know your babies and I just don't have snaps all the way down the legs. But it's like basically the same thing. I'm just in a big old adult onesie. And it's the best. I love it. I am a big fan of that. I just, when you said telotubby, it's kind of where it got me. Like, just the image that comes to mind. It's like, oh, yeah, telitubbies. I forgot about that. I think it's because I have headphones on right now and my hair is up and I just feel a little, I don't know, like a little telotub-ish. And I've got my little ultra-mini eggs on as well. So I'm the epitome of like chill and cozy. Cozy, right? Is it cold where you are today?

There's snow on the ground and it is, yeah, we had like a little mini blizzard, but here in

Colorado basically goes back and forth.

Yeah, it was really nice.

It was 68 degrees on whatever day, Monday, glorious.

Today it's 30 degrees and windy. I know. Midwest. So

sad. I know. Indiana. Oh, my. Okay. Well, now that we've got our outfits out of the way and the weather,

I think we can jump in. We are kicking off a new season of the podcast today, And part of it is in celebration of your new book

that released last week. It feels so good to finally have that out in the world. Oh my goodness.

I mean, okay, I always say that it actually feels like going, I mean, when you release a book,

this is what I said to my small group last week. I said,

it feels like stepping out in a very small bikini. Like it just feels like I'm literally.

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