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Ruth Show Simons is a Wall Street Journal bestselling and award-winning author of several books, including

Grace Laced, Beholding and Becoming,

and When Striving Cease.

She's also an artist, an entrepreneur, and a speaker, using each of these platforms to

spiritually sow the Word of God into people's hearts.

Ruth, thanks so much for joining us.

So good to be here.

So we're in full-blown Christmas mode here, and I'm so glad that you're going to be

inspiring us and sharing insights with us about the subject of Advent.

Before we get into all of that, for those who aren't familiar with Grace Laced, can you just

give a little of your backstory and how did Grace Lace come to be?

Well, I have always been an artist, but never thought that I could marry art and the Word of God

and somehow use it to bring him glory.

And I was a young pastor's wife and a mama to six boys years ago.

And in that season, you know, as a young mama, I thought, oh, the ship has passed me by. I'm never going to be able to do anything with these giftings that I have, but in the quiet moments of, like, you know, nap times, I just dabble a little bit. And, you know, the long and the short of it, Kirk, is that God somehow used that and allowed me to share little

bits of devotional material and artwork. And years later, that became a full-blown ministry

and business where I get to share my artwork in products and resources around the world. And so

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