Welcome back to another episode of Heaven and Healing podcast. I'm Angela. So there's really,

there's really no easy way to go about doing this sort of episode. I've never done an episode

in response to a tragedy before. And I honestly wasn't

going to, but the Holy Spirit was really pressing me to get this message out there because this is

so devastating. This is without a doubt a tragedy. It's heartbreaking.

It's excruciating.

It is challenging, if not impossible,

to understand the Lord's plan here.

And, I mean, there are certainly no words that any person could say to really make sense of this or to justify this or to explain this away.

But if there's something that I know about God, the Holy Spirit can do that.

And so I pray that the Holy Spirit will use me.

I pray that the Holy Spirit will use me. I pray that the Holy Spirit will use me to speak life into the children of God

and to speak truth into those who do not yet know him but are made in his image.

This Nashville shooting hits incredibly close to home because I, as many of you know, now live in Tennessee.

And this is 30 minutes away.

You know, I was on Zoom with someone while this was happening.

My fiancé was at work while this is happening in our own backyard.

And... in our own backyard. And it's really, really, you know, it's something,

it's one thing to hear about news like this,

and it's another thing to be so close to it.

There's something incredibly tangible about the reality of this devastatingly fallen world

when something like this happens, you know, a throne stow away from your place of work or your place of worship.

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