Hey you guys, this is Heidi St. John. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the busy mom podcast.

Thanks for joining me here at my little corner of the internet. This is the 600th episode

of the Heidi St. John podcast. Can you guys believe it? 600 episodes. Today we're going to be

talking about the breastplate of righteousness and why it's so important to put it on and what it

means exactly. I also am going to be talking a little bit about some things that are happening in

the culture that you need to be aware of. So stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

All right, so you guys we are in the month of May and I love it around here because in the Pacific

Northwest everything is in bloom. You guys can probably hear this in my voice a little bit.

I'm having like the pollen attack. So my voice is a little scratchy but I'm doing good and I'm excited

because it's just oh my goodness it's the most wonderful time of the year. I love it, love it, love.

I love this part of spring. There is so much happening in the culture right now. I was just talking

to a mom the other day who said that she did not know what she could do. She said she understands

what's happening in the school system. Now I think people are starting to wake up. I'm going to be

doing more. I'm probably going to place a little bit more of an emphasis here at the podcast on

helping parents who want to pull their children out. Home school their children to kind of give you

some tips and pointers. My husband and I have opened the home school resource center just outside

of Portland Oregon in the awesome city of Vancouver. And I just want to encourage you parents that

this is our watch. This is our time. We are here for such a time as this. And just like God has

placed everybody on the timeline of his story, which is history, right? If we were going to roll out

the timeline of history, roll out God's story, you would see that just like Abraham came into God's

story when God wanted him to and just like Harriet Tubman and Cory Tenboom and Barack Obama and

President Trump and any Billy Graham Billy Graham came into God's story right when God wanted

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