Hey everyone, welcome to Ask Away, where we receive every question as a gift and where we invite you to ask your hardest and deepest questions about God and life. I'm Vince Vitale.

Hi, I'm Joe Vitale. And it's been quite a while since you've heard from us. So we wanted to spend the first episode just updating you on where we've been, what we've been doing. The last time

many of you heard from us was when we posted a public repentance video confessing ways that we

had come to realize we had hurt people. That was almost three years ago. A lot of you have

asked where we've been and how we are. Thank you so much. That is really

meant a lot to us just to know that you cared and to hear that you were praying for us.

Yeah, I can't really even convey how significant your kindnesses were towards us.

Just probably more than you know, there were so many times over the last couple of years

when right when I was just having a tough day

or just needed a word of encouragement that we'd suddenly get a message over social media from one of you

in that very moment. And it just felt like a sweet encouragement from God just right to our heart.

So thank you so much, especially because we know that many of you were working through

your own shock and anger and confusion and lament in this season as well. I dropped our eldest

son Raphael off to his first day of preschool last week and within five minutes of chatting to one

of the other moms for the very first time, just three casual questions in. And she'd already got right to the

heart of what had happened in the last season, just in our very first meeting. And I'd mentioned

that we'd been processing some personal heartbreak. And her immediate response was, it was a global

heartbreak. This is a stranger that I just met on the playground, but it had impacted her so much

too.

And so just right at the beginning, we just really want to acknowledge your own heartbreak in

this last season too.

And to recognize, you know, that we know we'll have played a part in that as well.

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