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that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your faith walk that deepen your understanding of God's word and that heightens

your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Here's a question for you. What do you do when

you make a plan but God interrupts your steps? You know the passage of scripture. Man makes

his plan but the Lord determines his steps. You know, sometimes life takes a hard turn and we don't see coming.

And not that God sends hardship our way, but he certainly allows it. And though it's hard to see

at the moment, God can and will always. God can and will. Always take what the enemy meant for evil,

and somehow, some way he will turn it for good well last year

i mean i don't know several months ago around the holidays i spoke with shanty feldhan about her beautiful

devotional find joy a devotional journey to unshakable wonder in an uncertain world and we had

such a great conversation we'd made a plan to get her back

around now. So we asked her to join us again, to dig more into the topic of joy. So we got

her booked, got her on the schedule. Well, Shanti received some unexpected news between the time

that we got her scheduled and the time we find ourselves in today. She was diagnosed with breast

cancer and literally had surgery just a few

days ago. So now, how do you talk about joy? We're going to hear from Shanti in just a moment,

explore the power of joy in those unexpected places of pain. Her book is titled Find Joy,

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