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This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining. I am in the podcast studio with today's Devo writer, Stevie Pennypacker.

Hello. It's so good to be here. Great to have you here. I love your last name.

It's comical. It's fun. It's great. Stevie, we've briefly met before, but I've never heard your

story that I can recall. I don't think I have. Yeah. So would you share just a

little bit about how you came to know the Lord and then fast forward what's going on in your life today?

I would love to. So really what I would say is the Lord was super kind to allow me to grow up in a

Christ following home. So I've not known many days apart from his grace, but he knows I've needed it. And so it doesn't

mean that I have, you know, followed the straight and narrow by any means. And really I'm so grateful

for just the ways that as I've tried to find my identity and other things and my, even in my good

deeds and my self-righteousness, just being the prideful Sunday school girl,

grew up Baptist, so I knew all the rules.

Sure.

Even my appearance through an eating disorder, just an idol of thinness, in boys, even in things

like academic achievement that are really good by the world standards.

All of those things, when I made them about myself, when I made

them about the pursuit of my own glory and the fleshly appetite that we all have, it just left me

really empty. And so I would say that a big theme as I look back on my life today is just that at one

point or another, all of those things have been stripped away for me. And the Lord's just been kind

to just gently say, am I enough for you?

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