Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together.

We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's word, and builds

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

Thanks for joining. Today, we are in Nehemiah 6 and 7, but before we dive in, a quick announcement,

it is Friday, which means a new episode of Join the Journey Jr., just dropped. So if you have

little ones running around, or you've got nieces and nephews, cousins, whatever, the little

kids in your life, they need to hear it. So send them the link.

We'd love for them to dive into God's Word with us. But all that said, today I am in the podcast

studio with today's Devo writer, Hannah Rosen.

Hey, Emma. Thanks so much for having me.

You're welcome. It's fun to do a little reunion. You were in my leadership formation program group two years ago.

Something like that. It was the leadership training for women's Bible study, but we got to hang out

for a semester, which was fun. Yeah. And now you're here in the studio. And I would love for the

lovely listeners to get to know you a little bit. So would you share how you came to

know the Lord and then what's going on in your life today? Absolutely. So I grew up in a Christian

household and came to know the Lord at a really young age through faithful counselors at church camp.

And those early years were just a lot of doing what was right and what seemed good from the church's

perspective. And fast forward to high school, my family moved forward with adopting two brothers

from Ethiopia, which really shifted the perspectives or the foundations of our family and just how we operate and what it

looked like to be faithful. And so I walked through a season of just loneliness and distrust

in God's plan and God's purposes. And so through that season, he really showed me his character.

I came to know who God was at his core, just the deep love that he has for me, the

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