All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Psalm 6, but before we jump in, two quick announcements.

One, just a super speedy reminder that our new Join the Journey guided journals are on sale both in the

town center at Watermark if you're local to Dallas or online at Amazon. If you're not local or

want to get it a little bit quicker, it's a great option. And our second announcement is that because

today is a Monday, there's a new episode of Join the Journey Jr. out. So if you've got kids in your life who are around ages eight or under, this could be a new episode of Join the Journey Jr. out. So if you've got kids in your life

who are around ages eight or under, this could be a great resource to get them in the word,

talk about the Bible as a family. If you're a babysitter, it's a great resource, some fun

activities and games in there, but want to make sure you guys are all aware that Join the

Journey Jr. is available to you,

so we'll put that link in the episode description. All of that said, however, I am in the podcast

studio with faithful Watermark member in today's Devo writer, Ross Ferrens.

How's it going? Good. It's good to have you here, Ross. Thank you. Having me. Appreciate it.

You're welcome. You've got some raving fans around Watermark. to church and kind of leaving church on Sunday. So church was very much a thing you do at Sunday, and then the rest of the week was just whatever you want to do. Sure. I would have called myself

a Christian as a kid growing up throughout high school, but really wasn't living that way. It wasn't

until I was about 19. I worked at a place called Camp Barnabas in Missouri, and so Camp Barnabas is a camp for

children and adults with special needs. And so I worked there for summer. And really that time, that summer was the first time my life that I saw people living a genuine faith who looked

different than anybody else I'd seen before. What brought you there? So I actually, I'm from Michigan

originally. So I lived there, my high school, actually, the high school, when I was in high school,

the church that I went to would go down there for a week every summer and serve.

And so I did that for a couple summers, had that camp high, I thought it was awesome, would go back home, but had no community, nobody around me can really continue to point me to God. And so

I just kind of took a leap of faith when I was in college. I knew I liked camp, so I wanted to go back.

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