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Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast, my friends, where we hope to provide you

a place of connection, rest and encouragement on the journey seeking the heart of Jesus

Christ. My name is Sister Miriam James and I am joined by my lovely lovely beautiful friends.

Heather Kim and Michelle Benzinger on the journey together. Heather Kim, how are you today?

I am doing great. How are you sister? I'm doing pretty well. We were just laughing really

hard before we started recording so I'm barely keeping it together right now but that's not a bad

place to be. So, uh, Michelle, how's it going today? I'm fine. I'm trying not to laugh at

Sister Miriam's face trying not to laugh. So, I know. We're just trying to like just

own the journey people, join a Cuba together. I think it's, can I just say before we just

delve into our part four of our feminine genius, can I just say what a gift laughter is?

Can I just say that? I mean, I think we forget about that. Just such a healing gift.

Yeah. Yeah. So, um, if you've been listening, you know that we've been on a little journey together

and we, this is part four of our series on the feminine genius and so we've talked about

sensitivity and receptivity and generosity and today we are going to talk about maternity as one

of the great gifts of the feminine genius. So, which is both physical and spiritual maternity,

this, um, the aspect of the gift of oneself and we're going to frame this show around a beautiful

quote by St. Teresa Benedict of the Cross or formerly known as Eve Stein, a wonderful, wonderful

philosopher and just great woman intellectual woman. And she says this, she says, the woman's soul

is fashioned as a shelter and as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

Oh, and I just, you can imagine that, you know, that even I think it's proverbs that talks about a

faithful friend as a sturdy shelter and the shelter where people can find refuge, like our lady

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