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 92, but today is also a Monday, which means a new episode of Join the Journey Jr.

Is out.

So if you've got kids in your life who you love and want to know more

about Jesus, make sure to check that out, we will put the link to Join the Journey Jr. podcast

in the episode description. But all of that said, I'm in the studio with today's Devo writer, Carol Robertson.

Hey, Emma. Carol, it's so fun to have you here. Thank you. I feel like we've

served together across some various journey things throughout the years and how it's your first time in

the studio. It is. I'm a little nervous, but we're going to go through it. It's your first podcast

ever. Awesome. Understandable. Would you share a little bit about what God's done in your life and what

you're up to today? Sure. So growing up, I didn't grow up in the church. I was from a big,

beautiful family that was full of a bunch of intellectual people. And so this void was in there.

There were five of us kids and we all eventually, spiritually went down various roads that are just crazy sometimes to think about, that God somehow picked me up out of that and showed me the truth.

But growing up, I was in that mindset of, you know, there has to be a good reason to go to Christianity.

I can't just, you know, accept something because I looked at people and I thought, oh, there's just a bunch of hypocrites.

And, you know, they're weird, just weird.

And I actually saw God as kind of a weak, like, oh, he's all loving. You know,

so there was a weakness about that. So, but I would watch people. I was a great observer of people,

and it's like, okay, give me some more information. And gradually, God got me to a point where in high

school, I went to church with a friend and they called me

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