This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast. So as we dreamed about wrapping up this series, we really thought about who should come on and close it.

And I'll tell you who I picked because my daughter is someone who follows Jesus. A lot of you have heard

from her, Kate, on the podcast, and she gets up in the morning and regularly picks up

this man's devotional and the name of the devotional is new morning

mercies and it's by Dr. Paul Tripp it has given her such focus in her day and

she talks about how when she meets with God in the morning and how she

reads this devotional there is a piece that comes over her before she heads into public

school and all that her day entails and watching my daughter grow

from someone has been so rewarding to me and so I wanted to invite Dr.

Tripp on and I'm so honored you're here with me today. Thank you so much

Dr. Tripp for being here. Oh I'm so glad we can do this.

So let's start with that devotional. Let's start with new morning mercies. Really the focus of that

devotional is that the gospel can enter our everyday lives.

It has been transformative in my own life and talk about where that journey began for you.

So there's really two things that ignited my desire to write

at everyday devotional. The first is just the recognition that as human beings we don't live life based on the facts of our experience but based on our

interpretation of the facts. We've been wired by God to be meaning makers. So every day, everybody all the time is making sense out of our lives.

And that's a profoundly important thing, it's deeply spiritual, and the way you make sense out of your life will not only impact what you do, but will impact your emotions, your sense of well

being, your sense of identity, of meaning and purpose.

And the thing about that is that for most of us,

we don't think about that.

We're not self-conscious that we're always interpreting and that what we then do and how we then feel is

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