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This is the Join the Journey podcast.

Thanks for joining. My name is Wes Butler. Once again, the director of care ministries here at Watermark. We are continuing our takeover of the Join the Journey podcast. And today I am joined in the studio by a good friend named Rachel Duncan. Hi, Wes. Glad to be here. We are so thankful that you're here.

Rachel and I have known each other for many years,

and she's been a faithful part of our church family here,

and I'm excited for you to get to hear her story

and for us to interact with this passage from Job.

So we are today in Job 31 through 33,

and so before we get to that passage, Rachel, why don't you just share a little bit of your

story?

And as we've been saying for all of our guests on this series of podcast episodes, each one

of our guests are individuals who are friends and frankly heroes of mine, who have

walked through kind of Job-like suffering in a way that has

been really challenging, really painful in many ways, and yet has been a glory to the Lord

in the ways that they have endured that suffering and experienced healing and redemption through that.

So, Rachel, I'd love for you just to share a little of that story with our listeners today.

Yeah, I would love to.

So I guess it was right out of college.

I was walking with the Lord. Thankfully, I came to know the Lord at a young age. And in college,

got to a point of just desperation for him and found a relationship with him. And so I came to

Watermark after college and dove in. I just

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