This is quite the season we are all going through with the COVID-19 virus sweeping the world.

Today I'm here to provide a little perspective as we seek to be faithful with where we are at

with the circumstances we've been given.

Welcome to the Shepu's Faithful Podcast, episode number 144, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Lauren, and I am the host of the Sheproose Faithful podcast, and I'm so glad you're here.

I've actually taken a little break because we welcomed

a precious baby girl into the world in January and I really planned on airing a different

episode after my break that talks all about her and her name and just what a blessing she is.

But as circumstances have it, I really wanted to insert this episode in before that one to give us

encouragement and perspective of what's going on right now and how we can view these things as

the keeper of the homes, as the women, as the women, as women of the Lord. So what a wild and

interesting time we are in today, right? There's a flu-like

virus that's sweeping the entire globe. I was actually just looking at a map of the affected

countries the other day, and even the tiniest islands in the Pacific have folks suffering from

the coronavirus. So there are so many unknowns about this virus and so many what-ifs,

and so many of us are having to make rapid changes to our lives. But perspective helps all of us

in times of plenty and even in times of want in the good times and the hard times, perspective

is a good gift. It keeps us humble in the good times and the hard times perspective is a good gift. It keeps us humble in the good

times and it keeps us hopeful in the hard times. So I want to give us five perspectives to encourage us

and give us hope during this interesting kind of crazy time. So the first one, perspective number number one is that everyone's days on this earth

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