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 10, but before we

jump in, just a quick reminder that new guided journals are available on Amazon to aid you as we

study the Psalms. This edition of the journal only covers

the Psalms and then our Advent reading at the end of the year. We don't want you to get too far into Psalms

and miss out on that opportunity. But all of that said, I am here in the podcast studio with

faithful Watermark staff member, Neil Monroe. Hello. Neil, it's good to have you back.

Glad to be back.

It's been a good while.

Mm-hmm.

So for those who maybe haven't heard you on the podcast before don't know you, would you

would you mind sharing just a little bit about what God's done in your life and then what you're

up to today?

Yeah. Really briefly, I grew up in a fairy tale, kind of a Christian home from very

early on. I heard that Jesus died on the cross from my sins, rose again three days later,

and that he wanted me to be with him. And so there's not really much of a moment of my childhood

that I didn't know about Jesus, but I would not say that I knew that I needed a Lord of my life,

even though I knew about a Savior until very later on. My fairy tale was interrupted when I was

around 10 or 11, and my dad got sick, health rapidly declined, and died when I was 11.

And so, I mean, I remember looking back, and especially

as I read this psalm, like, identifying with, like, God, where are you? Like, I, I sat down the

night that he died and said some really hurtful things to my family about how I didn't think God cared

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