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Today, we are reading Psalm 17.

And by way of reminder, new guided journals covering the book of Psalms are available on Amazon.

We have journals for both adults and kids, and those links are in the

episode description. But I am here today with the one and only, one of our faithful editors.

It's J.C. Williams. Hey guys. What's up? It's Jacey. It's so good to have you here. This is

fun. This is so fun. This is a little different than what you're used to, huh? Super different. I'm not

sitting on a desk doing admin right now. Yeah. Tell everybody a little bit about you, what God's

done in your life, what you do for work, why you sit at a desk and do admin, and then what you're up to

today. Yeah, definitely. So I was sitting at a desk during admin because I work here at Watermark

on the community team where I do admin with our community directors, who I love. It's so much

fun getting to work with 20 different directors that all have different personalities. It's crazy.

Wow. But it's a good time. It keeps you on my toes. Yeah, yeah. But a little bit about me, I grew up in a small town in southeast Missouri, and their cultural

Christianity was a really big thing.

Mostly everyone went to church on Sunday mornings.

But thankfully, my parents raised my siblings and I in a Christian home where we really valued

God's word and following his

commands and going to church. So those were priorities in my life. And when I was seven, I went to

vacation Bible school with a friend and heard the gospel really clearly. And at that point,

I just felt God tugging on my heart that I needed to receive the free gift of salvation

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