Hello there. I wanted to share something special with all you faith adjacent

listeners this week. It's an episode of a podcast I'm enjoying called Need a Lift,

a show that focuses on bringing people together during a tough time in our culture.

Host Tim Shriver talks to wise guests who are religious and spiritual who have transformed

painful moments in their lives into purpose and demonstrate optimism through their lived experience.

Like author Simon Senec on why idealism belongs in the workplace, an Olympic athlete Michael Phelps

on vulnerability, competition, and mental health.

Nita Lift is truly the anecdote to the hatred and despair

we're all exhausted of hearing, giving us hope that change is possible.

In this episode, best-selling novelist Min Jin Lee

shares why she creates characters

that open our hearts to the most beautiful part of ourselves.

And you can hear more Need-A-Lift episodes

wherever you get podcasts.

I guess I really fundamentally believe that you have a soul

and that it is good and that it can be reached.

I'm Tim Shriver and this is Need a Lift, a show where each week we get a front row seat

for the best in humanity. I need lift to my soul for my worries and my soul for my worries.

And my woes they weigh me down.

Well, but I hear it over the riffs

that my spirit starts to need. A few years ago I took my children to see a Christmas season performance of a Christmas

Carol. It's the familiar story. We bundled up in our Christmas sweaters and our

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