To anyone who is in the middle of a season where they're going, I am barely making it,

and I'm just trying to steward all these little things that feel so exhausting.

Whatever that situation is, I would say, look at your life right now.

Take inventory of what God has given you to do, and steward it well,

just because your circumstances aren't what you hope they'll be someday, doesn't mean that God's not

truly active in giving you the exact circumstances you're in right now so that you might know

more of him and be more conform to his likeness right now,

even when you're not where you want to be yet.

Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Ann Wilson.

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at familylife today.com. This is Family Life Today.

Okay, I can tell you're excited. Driving in, you've had this little buzz about you.

I'm excited.

There's something about when you buy presents for someone at Christmas and you have them in mind

and you want to give them something beautiful.

Some of you that know Ruth Cho-Simon's know what I mean because she's a blogger,

she's an author, she's a podcast host,

she does so many things, but she's an incredible artist as well.

All I know is we bought a lot of your books.

And I'm so grateful.

And I'm always like, why are you buying so many at once?

I had like six on the table that I'm wrapping.

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