Welcome back to the Grove podcast. It's Francesca Price here. And today's episode is for anyone

who's felt like their faith is too messy, too behind, or somehow not measuring up.

Shelly Giglio sits down with speaker, author, and spoken word artist Housana Wong to talk about spiritual roadblocks, comparison, and the pressure to live up to the expectations of someone else's walk with God.

Hosanna shares powerful stories from her upbringing in San Francisco, the legacy of her dad's ministry, and together she and Shelley explore how to nurture your

relationship with God and flourish in different seasons of life. If you've been feeling stuck,

discouraged, or unsure how to connect with God in the season you're in, this episode is a deep breath

and a clear next step. Let's listen in.

I love you so much. I'm so thankful. I know you're probably doing a cajillion of these at the moment. My goodness. But congratulations on your book release. Thanks. This is a breath of fresh air

in the midst of it, so I'm thankful. I'm proud of you, girl.

Thanks. Did you ever think when you were like that you would be writing all these, it's crazy to me.

It's crazy.

I literally look at you sometimes.

I'm like, Hosanna, this is wild.

This is wild.

And when I go back to the streets and the tenderloin in San Francisco, my friends remind me.

They're like, can you believe you were able to write this stuff down? You were just there. wild and when I go back to the streets and the tenderloin in San Francisco my friends remind me they're

like can you believe you were able to write this stuff down you were just there too weren't you

were you there a couple weekends ago yeah I was there a couple weekends ago and talk about what all

that felt like just being in that space I think I think you're amazing because I don't think you ever forget where you come from.

And I think it's so easy sometimes when life moves on to kind of, you know, not have a reference point for those days and what God did in us and the miracle of it all and where you came from being so tethered to who you are now.

Yeah.

But it seems like you're so in tune with that. But just talk about what it was like to be back there for a minute. It's just sweet, like seeing some of the people I've known for decades, being like, we're so proud of you. You represent our streets well. They still call me little girl, because when my dad was alive, they would say, that's little girl, that's the preacher's daughter, little girl. So I can just show up at parts of downtown San Francisco, and people will just know me as that. And they'll be like,

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