Lord, how do I surrender to you? How do I abide in you? How do I stay conscious and aware of your presence all of the time? How do I lean on you? And trusting that he is the way he will unfold it with each step of our obedience and our faithfulness as we stay close to him.

Thanks for tuning in to the Grace Lace podcast. I'm Eve Steipes and together with my co-host,

Ruth Joe Simons, we are wrapping up a really special season today. For the last several weeks,

we've had the privilege of sitting down with incredible guests

to hear how the character of God has met them.

All of it in celebration of the September 12th release of Ruth's newest devotional,

Pilgrim, 25 ways God's character leads us onward.

We were so delighted to sit down and chat with Ruth's dear friend and Voskamp

for today's conversation. Anne is a farmer's wife, Mama to Seven, and a four-time New York Times

bestselling author of 10 books, including her most recent, Waymaker, and the 60-week New York Times

bestseller 1,000 gifts, which has sold more than 1.5

million copies and has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Named by Christianity Today as one of 50 women most shaping culture in the church today,

Anne knows unspoken, broken, big country skies, and an intimacy with God that touches tender places.

With an MA and evangelism and leadership from Wheaton and pursuing her doctorate of ministry from Wheaton,

she and her husband took a leap of faith to restore a 125-year-old stone church into the village table,

a place where everyone has a seat and belongs to a community that restores and restores. I can't wait for you to hear today's

combo, so let's get to it. I am incredibly pleased to have my dear friend and Voskamp on the podcast today.

And I cannot believe that it's taken this long for us to have a conversation on this podcast.

But we've talked in person at your farm on the very thing that we're talking about today.

And that is God as our shepherd. Welcome to the

podcast. I'm so glad you're here. It is a complete and total delight to be with you. And Ruth,

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