What's up, guys?

I'm Jared Lopes, and you're listening to the Dad Tired Podcast, where I'm helping everyday families learn how to follow Jesus and everyday life.

What's up, guys? Hey, thanks for checking out the Dad Tired podcast. I'm Jared. It's good to be with you.

Again, it's Easter week, which is a little bit crazy. Our family's headed down to California

to spend Easter with my family down there. And I feel like it's been a long week, even though it's Tuesday, because we're

trying to get ready for that. Traveling with kids is chaotic and extremely stressful.

So if I have any hint of stress in my voices, because of that. Anyway, all that set aside,

I'm super glad to be with you and hanging out with you on this

podcast. So thanks for listening, whether you're running, driving at work, doing dishes. Hopefully

you're doing dishes for your wife, dudes, or eating a sleeve of Oreos, whatever you're doing.

Super excited that you're here with us. Super excited again to tell you that we, that this episode and

all the episodes so far are sponsored by Audible, my new partnership with Audible, which I'm

really stoked about. You can go to Dadtire.com and hit the podcast link and pick yourself up a free audiobook anyone that you want on me

so anyway go do that dad tired.com hit the podcast link on there pick yourself up a free

audio book as always also want to remind you that there are a bunch of dudes hanging out on the

dad tired Facebook group A lot of guys there

that are just being super serious about their faith and their family, their marriage, they're sharing

suggestions, they're confessing sin and all that. So I would love seriously to have you guys a part of that.

If you're a guy and you want to be a part of that, I really would love to have you come hang out. You can do that by going to dadtire.com and hit in the

community tab and that'll link you over to the private Facebook group. So anyway, let me pray

for you before we get started. As always, we want God to show up, not just me. Listen, before we actually

dive in and before we even pray, if you are dealing with shame, if you struggle with shame, or if shame stops you from pursuing God in the way that you should or could, today is going to be the episode for you. We're talking about shame. And what does God do with that? Does God actually want to be near you even though you're all messed up?

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