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Today we bring you a message from Noel Piper on God's Grace and Life's Transitions,

originally recorded at TGC's 2018 Women's life's

2018

2018 Women's Conference.

I'm NOLPIPS.

I'm Noel Piper. I'm 70 years old. I'm a mother, a grandmother. I've been the wife of a seminary student, a college professor, a pastor, a writer, a speaker, a blogger, a podcaster, a father. They're all the same person.

And I have visited 45 nations and have lived in at least 18

residences in six states which include also three countries.

I mentioned these facts in particular because they do represent some transitions.

It's happened to me before that when I'm mulling over a speaking topic that's coming,

God drops into my life the need to experience that whatever it is and today the topic is transitions.

Three months ago I was the daughter of a mother who was young old. Today my mother is an old old woman. Three months

ago her memory wasn't what it had been, but she lived alone in the house.

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