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Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast where we desire to provide a

place of connection, rest and encouragement for those of you who are on the

journey with Jesus Christ, living out your passion and purpose just like us.

And my name is Sister Miriam James and today we are going to talk about beauty

and that's one of our favorite topics for a variety of reasons. And so I just want

to invite my dear friends as usual into this beautiful conversation. Heather

Kim who got up really early this morning for this, can I just say that Heather?

I think you've had no coffee either. And Michelle Benzinger as well. But Heather,

can you tell us how you do and are you surviving at this time? You're right?

Yeah, I'm doing okay. We've had a bit of a week as you know everybody does.

I know our listeners, many of you are going to be able to relate to you just

going through and then all of a sudden something comes up and throws things

sideways. So our youngest daughter broke her upper arm this week and so it

spent some time at the hospital. There was a surgery, all the things now we're

doing the nursing thing at home and yeah just praying for her recovery and I

was reminded I was there two years ago with our son who had a

appendix rupture. It was kind of all too familiar when I was in there but you

know I found two as like kind of a victory because I was very I was able to

quickly go to a very peripheral place and just felt God's presence in the

whole thing. So I feel very blessed at the moment despite the difficulty that's

happening right now. God has been very present. So you know I'm tired but I'm just

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