Waiting for Christmas is fun.

Waiting while you walk through the valley of the shadow of death is not as much fun.

Today I'm sharing a bit about the hopefulness and the wait, even if it's walking through a trial.

Welcome to the She Proves Faithful Podcast, episode number 201,

truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the She Proves Faithful Podcast.

My name is Lauren, and I am so glad you're here.

My last episode was actually number 200, and I said I'd do this huge

giveaway on Instagram and on Patreon, and you know what? Just, I don't know how it lined up to do

200 episodes Thanksgiving week while we were going to be out of town in South Dakota

and also have things to give away. I was

severely underprepared and I thought I had this big box. I did have this big box of giveaway stuff

and I'm going to use some things in there. But we moved and I hadn't looked in it, had not

looked in it in a long time. I realized it was a lot of kid books and I thought well

I need to I need I need I need more I want to give away more because this is such an epic celebration

so it's coming it will come and I've already bought a few things like I bought the soup night

I think it's slapdashery book and it talks about or shares

recipes to feed large groups of people because you run into that issue where if you like to

host and you're hospitable, a lot of times when you look for a large group recipe online, it's like

for six people or 10 people. And if you're having city groups or we call

them city groups small groups with your church or feeding a bunch of people, usually, I mean,

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