Friends, welcome to the Ransom TARP Podcast. John and Stacy Eldridge here, the week of December 18th.

What is it, hon, only four more shopping days till Christmas? Well that

depends on who you are. I'd say six. And where you shop? Yes, I said thank you

Jesus for Amazon. We have made our own personal contribution

to the cardboard industry this year.

Dear Lord, seriously, at least we can recycle it.

Yes. The number of like online shopping and therefore the number of boxes showing up at our

house and it feels like I'm constantly collapsing cardboard and putting it in the recycling bin.

But here we are, pre-Christmas week.

Just wanted to check in with you all and see how you're doing and offer some thoughts on getting getting our hearts in a good

place for the holidays. So how are you feeling, Stace? What is pre-Christmas

week?

I am feeling good now in this moment

because I really do love this time of year

how everybody gets all dressed up.

The houses get dressed up. The trees get dressed up, it's beautiful, it's lovely, and...

There might just be a couple little granddaughters that get dressed up?

He, he, he, he, he, he.

This is finally I get to buy Christmas dresses which I did. I've only had them put them on twice already. They're so cute. So I am doing well except when I'm not doing great.

And that's when I panic.

But mostly this year I'm not panicking know we did a captivating retreat just two weeks

ago in Australia and so there was a lot of buildup in preparation to that. It was a 10-day

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