I'm very careful to put anything on myself as an identity marker besides the very narrow

lane of I am a child of God. I feel very hesitant to attach anything else to that. Mother, wife, author, neighbor, it's all

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

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at family life today.com.

This is family life today.

When we first got married. Oh, we're going back there? Yes. I did not know you're starting there. I was so excited because we were going to change the world together. We're going to follow

Jesus. We're not sure what this looks like of where he's going to call us, but we're going to follow.

I felt like my life had so much purpose as I was following him.

And then I remember getting to a point and you probably remember hearing this over and over.

We had three boys five years old and under and I had this mantra in my head

instead of being filled with this purpose I started saying I have no life I have no life. Do you remember that? Oh yeah, I heard it every day.

And I think what's happened now I see this happening with a generation of people that they have this purpose and they feel like, oh my purpose is going to be this grand, extravagant, life-changing,

they're gonna be on this platform that's so big.

I get a little frustrated by that at times

because I'm thinking, what happened to to just like let's follow him wherever he has us go.

So we're going to talk about purpose today. We get the needums in the studio. You already heard their voices over there.

Jimmy Kelly had with us and welcome to Family Life.

You've been here before Jimmy have you ever been on?

I don't think I've been on with you guys before but...

Get ready for the thrill of your life.

You ready?

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