Today, I have a little life update and a marker of grace.

I'm sharing with all my Shepu's faithful friends and listeners four gifts of grace during a time of grief.

Welcome to the Shepu's Faithful podcast, episode number 44, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered

lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak. Hello, sweet friends, and thank you so much

for joining me on the Sheeproose Faithful podcast today. It's kind of a funny episode. I don't want to say

funny, but I have a story to share of something that the Lord is doing in my life. And it's one of

those things where do you share now? Is it too soon? Do you even share it all? Is it oversharing? Is it too

fresh? But I just want to share with all of you what's going on because I truly cannot contain

the overflowing Thanksgiving I have for God

in this difficult time. It is truly a work of the spirit and I cannot not give God the glory.

And I hope that it encourages many of you ladies whose lives may be touched by grief in some way.

Let me share a quick story. My husband and I, we have two

amazing beautiful children. They're four and one and a half. And we want a big family. We really do.

We want lots of children. We believe that children are a gift from the Lord. They call it our

heritage. This is who is going to advance the gospel of

Jesus Christ as we disciple children right in our very own homes to go out and be disciples in

their own family units. And if you've listened to my podcast, I've said it before where

so goes the father, so goes the family, so goes the father, so goes the family, so goes the family,

so goes the church, so goes the church, so goes the nation. And so really, we have this

incredible opportunity. So we love children, we want more children. I have a unique obstacle

in having children in that I was born with a congenital heart defect.

If you listen to the anxiety episodes, I think it's 31 and 32.

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