Hello everybody and welcome back to today's podcast.

You know what?

You guys don't technically know this until I tell you right now, but I am filming this.

Okay, not filming.

I'm recording this podcast and it's 7.30 right now.

And I got up really early this morning at 6.30 now. I know some of you

are probably like, um, that is so not early. I get up at 5 a.m. every day. It is early for me. Okay.

And the fact that it's a Saturday, I should say something. I don't even know why I went on that

little tangent, but y'all already know I am going to be very sporadic today.

So I hope that we can all just gather around together and try to focus because Lord knows I need it.

Okay.

Today's podcast is going to be on a lot of variety things.

Because you know what?

I'm a variety kind of girl.

I'm a variety kind of girl, but we're going to focus a little bit on maybe doubt.

Okay.

Struggling with doubt.

We're also going to talk about hard thoughts and we're going to talk about settling.

Okay, because I hate to admit it, but I'm a settler and I don't want to be a settler.

We'll get more into that. But just to start off, I want you guys to listen to this little anecdote. I'm just kidding. There's no anecdote.

It's actually just the story that my teacher was telling me in one of my classes. And it's a great

class. It's called spiritual life in community. And my teachers had a lot of experience over the

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