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Speaker 1: Life Audio. What if the season that you wish was

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Speaker 1: today's episode. Hello. Hello, Hello, ladies and gents, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to this week's episode of The Bottom Beloved Podcast. As always,

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Speaker 1: it's a girl, Kirby Kelly, and we are in part

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Speaker 1: three of our four part series on Hope. And the

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Speaker 1: reason why we're doing this series is because I have

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Speaker 1: a book that's coming out literally next week. Is that insane?

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Speaker 1: My second book, ah, And it's called The Fabric of Hope.

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Speaker 1: How God weaves redemption into every season, And I'm so excited,

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Speaker 1: like I can't believe that we're already here. Like the

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Speaker 1: days go by, the weeks go by, and it's really

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Speaker 1: easy for me to just be like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: I'm giving birth in a few weeks. But I'm also like,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, my book comes out in a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Like I've been laboring over this thing and working on

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Speaker 1: this thing and creating this thing and growing this thing

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Speaker 1: for far longer than her. So it's just crazy crazy

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Speaker 1: to see both of these things come to fruition so soon.

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Speaker 1: But like I said, you can pre order my book

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Speaker 1: at the Fabric of Hope still right now today, and

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Speaker 1: you can still get a hold of those pre order freebies.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about a five part teaching series where we're

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Speaker 1: answering hard theological questions such as why does the Good

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Speaker 1: God allow suffering? Can He really weave hope into my story?

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Speaker 1: And plenty of others. There's a Bible study type like questionnaire,

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Speaker 1: prayer guide thing where basically what it is is it

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Speaker 1: gives you scripture for the day questions as you begin

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Speaker 1: to analyze your own story of areas where maybe you

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Speaker 1: have had a hard time hoping in God and have

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Speaker 1: even questioned like what is biblical hope? What does this

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Speaker 1: look like? All that and more, plus the first three

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Speaker 1: chapters of the book that you can begin reading right

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Speaker 1: now today. But the good news is is that once

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Speaker 1: pre order it literally give it a week if you're

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Speaker 1: ordering it today, because the book will be at your

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Speaker 1: doorstop soon. But if you want to get those freebies,

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Speaker 1: you have to pre order. Okay, you only got a

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Speaker 1: week left to do that, and then you plug in

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Speaker 1: your order information to Fabric of hoopebook dot com. You'll

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Speaker 1: see you'll scroll you'll put all your order information there

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Speaker 1: and that is how you will get access to all

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Speaker 1: of the pre order freebies, which I can't wait. But

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Speaker 1: so far in the Hope series that we've been doing

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Speaker 1: here on the podcast, we have talked about the letter

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Speaker 1: And today we are talking about the letter P, which

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Speaker 1: stands for purpose. Because once you have been hurt or

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Speaker 1: God was invited into it. The suffering, the wicked decisions

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Speaker 1: according to his purpose. This verse does not say all

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Speaker 1: not the purpose. Redemption is. Redemption is. And I've said

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Speaker 1: It can actually lead to a great testimony, not just

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Speaker 1: a great tragedy. Maybe you've read the Greek tragedies before

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