Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Psalms 103 through 107, and I am in the podcast studio with a faithful watermarking member and worship team volunteer.

Macy Snowden. Hello. Macy, it is good to have you here.

It's so good to be here.

First time in the podcast studio.

Yeah, the new one.

The new one.

You were back in the days when we met in the closet.

But I'm glad you're here now.

For those who don't know you, would you share a little bit about what God's done in your life?

Yeah. So I now, obviously, live here

in Dallas, Texas, but was born and raised in a small town in Oklahoma and went to the same church,

the same school, lived in the same house my whole life. So small town and my dad was in ministry. So

small town preacher's kid, everybody knows what you do, what you're up to,

who you are. So no privacy. No privacy. I couldn't get in trouble if I wanted to. But I instead of

being like, oh, I want to rebel, I just use that to say I want to be the best rule follower

everyone's ever seen. So that's what I did. I followed all the

rules and really developed this sin of self-righteousness and pride and arrogance from a really young

age because I thought I was better than everyone because I was in the church and was singing

songs on the worship team and my dad was the preacher and whatever led to that. But that pressure

really led to a struggle with depression, my senior year of high school.

And that was pretty devastating because I also felt like I had to hide it because everyone in the town knows you and thinks that that would never be a part of your story.

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