The Hello, are you beautiful people, and welcome to the Glorious and the mundane

podcast. I'm your host, Kristi Nachols. Happy new season of The Glorious and

the mundane. It feels incredible to be back with you and to get to be in this heart and

head space with all of you who have been on the journey with me over the past year or so.

I'm so grateful to all of you who have listened and prayed and written in and even when I've run into some of you on the road

You're quick to just go there with me about what this podcast has meant to you.

So thank you for that.

I also want to say thank you specifically

for your patience with me,

as I've had to put the podcast on hold

for the past several months

and kind of morph this thing into seasons. I know it's been an

extra long break but it was incredibly needed and you're going to find out in the next

podcast what all those sturings that I've kept referring to have turned into. I couldn't

be more excited to begin unpacking some of that with you, but I ran into a

sweet lady at a church out in the Denver area several weeks ago and as she started

talking to me about the podcast, her eyes filled up with tears as she expressed how it had

specifically encouraged her through a really difficult season.

And then she encouraged me, even around the idea that I've had to put the podcast on hold,

and that in and of itself had given her permission in a way to do the same thing

in her own life about some things that she had been juggling.

And I just appreciated that so much. I shared with her how hard that it's been for me,

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