Hey, all you beautiful people and welcome to the glorious and the mundane podcast. I'm your host, Christy Knuckles.

This is a place where we come together and explore what true

and authentic life in God looks like, even on our most ordinary days and moments. Well,

happy April to all of you who are listening in real time out there. If you follow me on Instagram,

you've maybe seen my stories of our family hunkered down in our

basement bathroom several days this month already as spring storms have been in full force

here in Middle Tennessee. There was one night this past week that we didn't sleep all night.

I think it's because the technology that is now available is so incredibly

precise that our phone sirens go off, which, you know, sounds like an amber alert, even when

rotation is just detected up in the atmosphere, which is crazy. But, you know, being from Oklahoma,

I understand full well that it only takes a matter

of seconds for the right conditions to come together for that rotation to drop down into a funnel

that touches the ground. I mean, I know it's more scientific than that, but the point is you just

don't mess around when your phone sirens go off. So the other night was a tough one because as

soon as we'd go bed back down to try to sleep for just a minute, you know, between the storm cells,

our phones would go off again. So that's when we just decided after like, you know, the third

or fourth time just to stay up, stay sheltered. The great thing was, is that we knew that

everyone else in the entire city was up. So I was texting friends and our son Noah at like

3 and 4 a.m. We also started bringing our hard drives with us down into our little tornado shelter

because one of them has our entire new

Lelaby album on it, which is not something you want to lose in a storm. And speaking of, you may

have seen that we released a new song this past Friday called Fly the Nest song, Carry You. And

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