Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Christ with Coffee on Ice. I am your host,

Aliost, and it is a joy and honor to be here with you guys. If you are a new listener,

I just want to acknowledge we have some new listeners. We've been gaining some more subscribers,

especially on YouTube. So hi, everybody. Thank you for joining the podcast. I hope that you guys have

been enjoying it. This is truly

the light of my life. Just being able to come on this podcast and talk about my favorite person in the

world, which is Jesus. And so yeah, I'm grateful that you guys are here. And I'm also so honored

to be able to do what I do. And if you have been a loyal listener, and you've been listening for a long time,

I love you as well. But welcome, you guys. Happy Friday. We are back for another Friday. And we have our

coffee on ice. Today, we do. And we have our Christ, first and foremost, above all else. Thank you,

Jesus for being Jesus. What a great day guys and i am just

feeling so overflowed with gratitude and just affection like i just feel the lord's affection today i don't

know if this is something that's going to you know really speak to a lot of you guys i hope it does

because i was feeling it really heavy this morning of just and i know i need it to of being

brought back to the simple love of Jesus.

I think that if, you know, you've been a follower of Jesus for a while,

or maybe even just a few months, whatever that looks like,

I think a lot of times it's very easy for us to kind of get into this performative,

and we've talked about this before on the podcast,

but just this performative kind of cycle of like waking up and doing your thing and even maybe

losing touch with just the affection of Jesus and like the simple love, that first love,

that childlike love, that honeymoon, like romance that you can have with Jesus. And yeah, I don't know. I just think that a lot of times life can just sweep us away. And like, we can still have Jesus be a part of our life every day. It's not that we're neglecting him or not acknowledging him. But I hope this is making sense. Do you guys relate to that where it's like, obviously Jesus is still very much a part of your every day and you're praying and you're acknowledging him, but it's like we're losing the simplicity of the gospel. We're almost allowing, I don't know, like a normalcy of just being like, yeah, Jesus, like there he is, when it just should never be that way. Like I pray that after today's episode, I don't know what it's going to really look like.

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