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Hello and welcome to season two of our Abiding Together podcast where it is our desire

to provide a place of connection, rest and encouragement for all of you who are on the journey of living out your passion and purpose just like us in Jesus Christ.

My name is Sister Miriam James and I am joined once again by my lovely friends Heather Kim and Michelle Benzinger.

And it's been a while since our listeners have caught up with us. So Heather maybe you want to talk about this is a new season of belonging. That's what we're going to talk about today.

Maybe you could talk about what you've done this summer girl. What you've been up to.

Well we had a wonderful summer actually a lot of great family time. We have a place down by a lake and so we spent a lot of time playing, a lot of time resting, a lot of time in the sun.

And I don't feel bad about it you know. I think sometimes we feel like we need to apologize. Like you know our feel bad about say we took time to rest but honestly it was a fairly restful summer for us.

And then it was really rejuvenating and we just had great family time together. So but I missed you all I missed I mean obviously we've chatted a little bit but we haven't done this in a while and I missed yeah chatting with you both.

Related adventures Michelle what you do this summer you're always up to something fun and adventurous.

Well this is the first summer that I haven't moved the last two summers we moved. So it was like relishing and not moving houses are a major change and so it was great.

You know we did the beach we did camps we did vacation with family we did all of those things but I realized at the end of the summer that I had not been by myself in my house since the beginning of May and I was starting to oh my gosh.

Switch like because I was like I need some of the time. Like I had kids would be up late at night because now they're getting older and then the little ones would be up early in the morning so like I had no alone time and so actually over Labor Day weekend my husband as part of a birthday gift to me took all six kids with him to my mom's like house and left me in my house by myself for three days and it was my best gift ever ever.

And so it's like the most attractive thing ever isn't it. Yes like being in your own house like Jane Austin says like if you want real comfort stay at home like this is totally true and I didn't even do a lot with friends here I went out to dinner here once or the other day like I was just by myself because I just needed to be by myself you know and it was great it was glorious and so yeah but it was a great summer and I'm glad everybody's back in school. Yay. So yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Sister how is your summer you had a busy summer girl you're traveling a lot.

Oh yes well we had our annual community meeting every July we do that and so we did that in Corpus Christi Texas where I live and then I packed my bags and went back out on the road again for some stupid

conferences and different things but I have to tell you that I went home also for two weeks to visit my mom and my mom was on Washington state and it just goes gorgeous weather we were outside every day doing projects one of which ended up with both of us on the roof cutting down branches with a chainsaw and I'll just let like your imagination go.

I was cleaning onto the chimney holding onto my mom so she wouldn't fall off the edge of the roof she just turned 75 by the way so yeah I it was an interesting adventure that we had but I loved every minute of it and I just realized more and more I just need to be outside and just enjoy nature.

Okay I need to get a visual for this inhabit our out of habit on the roof like on the roof on the roof.

You know how I roll girl there's the none on top of the roof holding onto my mom so she doesn't care enough this side when she has a eight-foot pole chainsaw and she's sawing off branches like that oh my gosh.

Yeah you see there she has a rope or something you know to hold on to.

It's like you're not on micro-punshable so yeah the hell comes in very handy for a lot of things.

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