Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast.

Today we speak with two influential women in the world of entertainment.

Our first guest is best known for her role as an angel named Monica in the beloved television series

touched by an Angel.

Roma Downey has earned multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations as an actress and producer.

Downey along with her husband Mark Burnett produced the Emmy-nominated miniseries, The Bible,

for the History Channel, which was watched by over 100 million people in the U.S. alone.

Downey continues to pursue her passion of bringing the gospel to the world through the medium

of television and film, and now has a new online community full of inspirational and uplifting

resources called Light Workers.com.

Hello, I'm Roma Downey and I was born and raised in Dairy City in Northern Ireland and I

immigrated to the United States about 25 years ago now and I came over with a dream in my heart to be an actress and I had a really blessed career. I grew up in a house full of faith and my mother had passed away when I was just a little girl.

I was just a week shy of my 11th birthday and my mother died very unexpectedly of a heart attack and to say that it

changed my life would be an understatement it was as if my life had been in full color

until that point and then suddenly it went into black and white

She had just been the joy in our home

She was the warm fire in the cold hearth

I mean any of those metaphors could have described the loss was so extreme and painful

and I don't know if it hadn't been for our faith and the fact that we as a family were able to lean into our

faith and found the comfort in our faith and hope in our faith. I grew up in a

house where it was always the right time for a prayer and I honestly can say that

throughout the journey of my life I've never made any decision big or small that I didn't approach

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