Today is a bit of a grab bag of life. Simple musings that hopefully produce some practical applications.

Welcome to Sheepruce Faithful, a podcast to help you think biblically and live faithfully. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hello, thank you for joining me today on Cheapers Faithful.

I am so excited to be able to chat with you.

And really, I have so many thoughts and episodes that I really want to share and I have been really encouraged thinking through some of these topics.

But I wish that we could sit down

and have coffee and catch up. Not coffee. Coffee's disgusting. I'm sorry, coffee drinkers. I've tried.

I've tried, you know, my mom one time, she gave me, I mean, half an ounce of probably diluted coffee and the rest, the most delicious cream and sugar.

And I almost passed out.

I just, I'm not, I wish we could hang out.

That's what I'm trying to say.

Whatever you want to put in your mug, I wish we could hang out and talk. So we can't be

face to face, but I thought, wow, it has been a while. And the other day I was listening to this

podcast, it's this husband and wife duo. And I don't listen to their podcasts all that often.

And this one was randomly about becoming like physically stronger, which is something that I've put

some effort into doing this year. I am 42 and I noticed after my last baby was born, how old was I in

22? So it was 39. That my body was different. It was, it has been different.

And this year I was like, we have to do something to be faithful with this little jar of clay that is feeling really clayish.

So anyway, I'm listening to this podcast and I never got into

the strength part because the first basically, they had like an intro and then the first 10 minutes

was about them, their podcasting and the challenges. And as a podcaster, it like breathed life into

me. And I was like, like give me more give me more of

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