And so I thought, do you know, it would be fun, is if we got a sort of travel prayer room and we got this old school VW camper van.

I've never prayed for an inanimate object so much in my life. I'm like laying on hands every single time I wanted to try and start that thing, particularly during the winter.

Mid, getting onto the motorway, like the thing just started accelerating and then everything wouldn't stop.

And I'm like, I had to turn the whole machine off. I went into the back of a van, but I was going slow enough.

I just bounced off the back of this white van.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. I'm really excited this week to have another fantastic guest, basically, if you're new to inspired, it's all about amidst all their rubbish and the negativity that we've

constantly bombarded with for you to be introduced to make some mind from across the spectrum,

all sorts of different walks of life who have got a story to tell. The aim is that you will leave

in 50 minutes, whatever it is, more encouraged, more passionate in your faith, more willing to take the hard knocks that come to all of us and that you'll keep on going.

So that's what we're about.

And this week, we've got a dear friend of mine called Miriam Swanson.

Welcome, Miriam.

Thanks, Simon.

What a good intro.

I'm already inspired by inspired. Brilliant, mate. So Miriam,

some of you will know her by her former name, which was Swoffield. She's now Swanson. She's had a

busy few years of getting married in the pandemic, moving to America, having a baby.

But Miriam and I go back. Well, I don't know when we first met. Well, I think we first met when you're an adult,

but when you sort of in the youth group, whatever, when I spoke at King's Road Church in Berkinson?

I was going to say, I remember you, but I was sort of 1617. And I just remember that being probably

the first, maybe the only time in our tiny little local church that I grew up in where you did a call to like, I mean, it's likely to be radical impossible faith knowing you.

And the church ended up at the front responding.

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