My mom would always say, you know, also, if you know when you leave this earth that you made even just one or few people's lives easier, better, made people feel valuable you are listening to the Waman Evolve podcast. What's up with you? What has been going on in your world? Are you one of those people who are in the season of your life where you're like, listen, I am thriving and flourishing. Everything is going well in my world or does it look like it's going well and on the inside you're crumbling? Or do you look like what you're going through and is all coming down. I don't know where you are or at what stage of life you are in,

but it is my prayer that this podcast meets you right when you need it the most and that it will be

a gift from God that strengthens your heart. There are so many times when we look at people's

lives, especially when we're going through

something or take an inventory of our lives and we think to ourselves, they really seem like

they have it going together on the outside. But on the inside, there's something else happening,

something that we would never guess because we did not take the time to look beneath the surface. That is what I

am going to challenge you to do this episode, is to dare to look beneath the surface. I remember

this story when I was a young girl after I had had my son and I was talking to my father.

And a lot of you know, but I was a teen mother. My father's a pastor, and whenever I went back to church with my son, there was always this lady who would look at me whenever I was holding my baby, and I always felt like she was judging me because I was a teen mom, and I had received so much judgment, so much criticism. And I told my father, I don't want to go to church anymore. Every time I go to church, people are staring at me. They're looking at me with shame or pity. And I would rather just not go at all. And I'm like, especially this one lady. I always see her in the hallway. And she's just looking at me with so much disappointment. And my father goes on to tell me that that that woman in particular had actually had an abortion

when she was a teenager and that it was something that plagued her throughout her life.

And it taught me a valuable lesson about what we think people are seeing when they're looking

at us and even what we think we see when we look at others.

Sometimes we are making up stories in our head based

off of our insecurities and fears without any idea of what's actually happening in their life.

And that has been something that I keep with me as I engage with other people. Oftentimes,

we're all fighting battles that the other person can't see. And I am hopeful that this week, as you are listening to this podcast, that you feel like

someone else is in the fight with you.

There are so many mind your business questions that we get.

First of all, I am enjoying it.

If you want me to mind your business, I want to remind you that you can call me at 214-790-871 and I can mind your business.

Now, listen, let me tell you something. I'm going to pray about it. I'm going to seek the Lord

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