What’s God up to?? Juliana's Journey of Resilience and Grace

Have you ever chuckled in the face of adversity, finding a gleam of joy amidst the trials? Juliana, a special ed teacher with an infectious laugh, guides us through her recent life challenges, from a big move to dealing with a household mold issue, all while uncovering the humor and grace in God’s plans. This episode serves up a heartfelt reminder of the strength found in community, the power of a good laugh, and the importance of maintaining a joyful perspective, even when the tide seems against us. 

Tuning in, you'll be swept into an intimate discussion about life's unpredictable nature and the resilience that blossoms from finding joy through adversity. Juliana shares her personal tales of loss and the unexpected gifts of new friendships that have supported her through tough times. Her story isn’t just about the struggles; it’s a celebration of the soul-nourishing power of music, the solace in journaling, and the comfort we can find in leaning on our faith community. Let her journey inspire you to embrace the lighter side of life and find solace in the spiritual anthems that can turn our darkest days around.

As we wrap up our time with Juliana, we're reminded of the indelible impact of encouragement and the strength it can infuse into our communities. Her experiences and insights into the divine touches we encounter—sometimes from unexpected sources like rideshare drivers—offer a fresh perspective on how God may be speaking to us through those around us. Join us as we explore how to be conduits of God's grace and hope, uplifting those around us with small acts of kindness that ripple outward. Get ready to have your heart moved, your faith deepened, and your spirit uplifted.

Songs Julianna Mentioned:
This playlist has everything I love Spotify made it for me.
Give this playlist a listen: The Goodness (feat. Blessing Offor) Radio https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8KRYo3gGU0E1?si=oxHGYdZCROO78c-CK86CFA&pi=u-YsUZPmX_Qp6U

Specific songs:
Good Day - Forrest Frank
Grace Got You- Mercy Me
Known - Tauren Wells
Hello, My Name Is- Matthew West
Love Broke Through- TobyMac

Want to reach out to Julianna? Contact her here: thinkjulesj@gmail.com

Now get out into the world and be a woman who intentionally encourages another!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:32

All right, good morning Encouragers. Happy Monday, welcome back. It's Jo. Your co-host here at Encourage, her Community Podcast Wanted to welcome you back. I hope you're having a great Monday morning.

Speaker 1: 0:43

If you're listening to this at the start of the week, you know I love a Monday and I just feel that Monday reminds us that there's a new chance for a fresh start. Each week we get to choose the energy and the perspective we bring into our week. So let's start off with encouragement, and my hope and prayer would be that this podcast would encourage you and that you then go out into your places with your people and be a woman of encouragement. So that's our prayer this morning. We get to have a guest today. I'm so excited this podcast series that we do. We sporadically sprinkle it in and it is called what's God Up To, because the truth is he's always up to something. He never stops working. He never stops learning about us. We never stop learning about Him. He knows our story and he's working it for the good, even if we don't see it. So I just love sharing real-life examples of what God's doing. I think it's encouraging to me. I hope it encourages you as well, just to remember that God loves us and even in the little things we can see him working if we're intentionally looking for it. So we hope this story encourages you. Today we have Juliana on the podcast.

Speaker 1: 2:02

I met Juliana through RISE, I think was the first place. Rise is a Bible study that kind of came to fruition at our church and the community surrounding women attached to our community through Zoom. And it was when the world just kind of went cray-cray and we couldn't gather in person. So we started gathering at I think it was five in the morning when we first started, which was crazy, and we've continued on. So it's been a while now and it's been a blessing and the community continues to meet.

Speaker 1: 2:35

So if you been a while now and it's been a blessing and the community continues to meet, so if you are someone who's up early looking for a community to plug into and you maybe can't get there during the day because of work or life, then this might be a good place for you. They meet on Zoom Now it's 5.15 on Wednesdays and they go through different Bible studies, but it's a really cool little community of women. So that's where I met Juliana, I believe the first time, and we've had other connections since then. But, juliana, welcome to the podcast. I'd love for the guests just to hear a little bit about you, whatever you want to share, before we share your what's got up to Welcome.

Speaker 2: 3:10

Thank you so much. So, juliana, I've been going to FCC since I moved to New Jersey from Massachusetts, so that was at the end of 2018. And then the world shut down. But before I joined Rise, I actually used to. Juliana probably doesn't know this, but I actually had her son in my Sunday school class. I was a buddy in his class and so I always think about him whenever I see her on Rise and so and that's kind of where I my life, that I do. I'm a special ed teacher or I have been, and we'll talk about that more later and but I really I'm an early morning person, so Rise has been great for me. I like to volunteer. Now I live a little further away from FCC, so I only get to church in person probably twice a month to live in Benner, but I'm always there online and always at Rise. So that's a little bit about me.

Speaker 1: 4:08

Yay, I did not know that that's so cool about Sunday school Weird little connections, right. That's really cool. Thanks for sharing that. So, and thanks for the volunteering work that you did there. That's incredible what she's referencing. We have some students that need just maybe a little more support on Sunday mornings, and people can offer their time by being a buddy in the classroom and just being a helper, and it's incredible, especially given that you do that all of the time and then you're giving more of your time. I very much appreciate that.

Speaker 1: 4:41

So, as I said, you know, I just kind of throw this question out to people because, you know, I first of all just so appreciate, Juliana, you coming on and being willing to share. Not everyone is comfortable doing that and it is vulnerable and it is personal. So I just appreciate it and I do believe God will use it for the listeners listening in today and maybe they'll share it with someone else too that they think of. So who knows what God will do? But what is that? I'm sure there's many things you could talk about, but, as you heard that question when I asked you if you'd like to be on the show, and you considered it and you said yes, like were there things you were thinking about when you hear that question what's God up to?

Speaker 2: 5:23

What would you say? So I think God has jokes. He's really hilarious. He's probably the biggest comedian in my life, but I think in a good way. I need to learn through hard lessons. So what God's been up to in my life is really teaching me how to slow down, how to ask for help and how to just be a better listener, but also a better member of the community, and so like that sounds broad. So I'll tell you a little bit about how I got there.

Speaker 2: 5:51

Back, after the world kind of started to reopen up, I said I'm a special ed teacher. I was teaching in the school district of Philadelphia and it was a lot. I was teaching math and science and I was very and special education writing IEPs, had a lot of kids in my caseload and I was just feeling very overwhelmed and you know I was. This is what am I going to do. And I was traveling. I had just moved down to the shore area because my house had mold in it in Philadelphia and so I couldn't find another place to live there, and so I ended up down here and was like, ok, this will be a temporary. We'll see how this goes. And I can't. I need, I need a break. I need a longer break than winter break for the holidays. So I prayed to God to get to give me COVID, and which is a terrible, terrible thing for me, especially because I have an autoimmune condition. I have mixed connective tissue disease which mirrors lupus. So asking for COVID is really I thought I was like, but that's really what. I was so exhausted that I was like, you know, getting that 10 days of COVID testing positive would be better than being here in school right now. And God said you know, that's not the best prayer for you because, like COVID will take you out and it did.

Speaker 2: 7:06

I ended up getting COVID later on, like about a month later, after I prayed for it. But what took me out of school actually is I slipped and fell. I prayed on Sunday that I would get COVID on Monday, didn't get COVID. I fell in school and like popped my ankle and I knew right away something was wrong. The nurse came in and she's like, oh, this doesn't look good. I went to urgent care and I ended up, long story short, needing like a long ankle surgery. So after about two years of going to doctors and different things like that. I had surgery just in February of last year, so I was out of school that whole time and it was crazy because I was really like what is God? What are you doing? Like what is going on with you? Because when I asked for COVID in 10 days not for like a year and a half, almost two years and like why are we doing this?

Speaker 2: 7:55

And then when you have ankle surgery, you can't walk upstairs and my house I live in a townhouse and I live on the top part of it, so 14 very vertical stairs up which meant that I couldn't go to my house. I had to ask for help, ask to stay with someone else, ask my friends to help me, and I don't like asking for help. I would prefer to do everything on my own. So God is humbling, he has jokes, he's very humbling and he's taught me really that I can't do everything by myself. I need a community and I've been really thankful for the women in Rise who just like, were there encouraging me, saying it's okay, you're going to feel better, and I needed that. I needed to tune more into God. He's like it's okay, you're going to feel better and I needed that. I needed to tune more into God.

Speaker 2: 8:36

I journaled and that first year I actually filled two whole journals. I journaled almost every single day of the year, which was a goal of mine, and I haven't got exactly that since then, but really I realized journaling helps bring me closer to God. So he taught me ways that I can be better connected with him through journaling, not only reading the Bible, listening to music, but also I needed a community and I had to reach out to people and I don't like that and I'm still learning, and he, I'm a hard learner. I'm still learning these lessons slowly, but I'm also learning discernment for people. So God's teaching me like that, not everyone who you meet is meant for a long time. Some of them are meant for a short time, for a certain period of time, and that's okay and to be like, okay with like relationships coming and going to learn what you can from people. And that's a hard lesson for me because I like when people come into my life, I want them to stay and this whole journey has been.

Speaker 2: 9:34

I learned a lot about people, things I didn't want to know, things I wanted to know. I met some really like nice lifelong friends. I live in a great community, but I also lost some friends in this process too, because I wasn't at school every day, so I lost some of my teacher friends. I lost friends who were like, well, you can't do anything fun, you just always walk around in a boot. And I realized that that was okay too, that you know I was at a different pace and different place in life and God just really was like you know, it's okay, like you can let go of people, like you know, let go and let God and really just like let me take the wheel and and it's I always like I have to, like whenever like my ankle hurts. Or then after that, I was in a car accident and I was like we're not done healing yet, god, or you got more jokes for me. So it was just all these things, but it just is.

Speaker 2: 10:22

Patience is really something that I'm good at in some ways with other people, but I'm not very patient with myself. I am very self-critical, I don't have patience for myself, and so I think what these injuries have taught me, that God is teaching me, is that I have to be, have to give myself grace. Right Like Jesus is like the the ultimate, like giver of grace. He wants us to all like have that for other people, and I think that's one thing that I do well, but I don't give it to myself. And I think a lot of these lessons have been God being like yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:55

So it's nice that you want to help others, it's nice that you want to give grace to other people, it's nice that you are so like you know you're embodying, like you want to be loved and you want to have unconditional love for people, even if they're not kind to you. But can you turn like the mirror back on yourself and give any of those things to you too? And that is really hard, and I've had to do that too, because when you spend some time alone because you're recovering, like sometimes, like I had to be like my own best friend, and that was hard. It still is hard because I want to give and do. But God is like yeah, you can do that, but like is your cup? Are you filling your cup?

Speaker 2: 11:34

Whether it's like by going to rise, whether it's by listening to music, is it going to church? Like this week? I was like I need to. This is the week I needed to be in person and it was so amazing to be at church in person where I prayed with a random person who was next to me, who I'd never seen before, and I needed that. Just because you know that connection with other people, I could have found someone I'm starting to sit next to, but it was nice to be able to have that five minute prayer that Pastor Jared said with someone who I got to know and, like, just reminded me that like, oh, it's okay to talk to new people, it's okay to make you know, make new acquaintances, and that you don't have to always just stick to the things that you know and to get out of your comfort zone. And so I think God, he is hilarious and he likes to joke around with me, and that's how I learned I'm hard headed and he made me that way, so it's his fault and I'm okay with it. But I think you know he knows that somehow, some way, these things are what connects me to people.

Speaker 2: 12:31

I've met other women who have chronic illnesses, who you know, and it's not fun, especially when you're like, oh, like I feel like I'm like 90 years old and I am not, you know, and so that some days it's like that, but then other days it's like, okay, just jump around and go Um, and then, you know, I am getting back into teaching, which is is harder than I thought because I've had some time off and I didn't think I was going to do that. But God keeps telling me, like I call my cousins and he's like so, I want to go to law school, you're going to do all of these things, I can do all of it. He's like, yeah, because every time I tell you you're going to do it all, so he's got plans, I still don't understand them. He doesn't want to let me in on the secret, still don't understand them, and he doesn't want to let me in on the secret, which is really frustrating. Again, patience with myself. I don't have it, but I know that he's got it under control.

Speaker 1: 13:22

That's incredible. It's just to hear it Like I've cause. I've heard your story in pieces throughout the time, right From being in rise. I'm off and on, I'm kind of an off and on riser now at this point, but just hearing your story and seeing prayer requests at different times for the different things you're going through and thinking, and she's still laughing and smiling and joyful. How does she do it? Because you were going through so much really. I mean, those little things you mentioned were not little things. Those little things you mentioned were not little things.

Speaker 1: 13:52

And to be out of work or out of your rhythm, out of your comfort zone for so long is pretty wild. And I always find it refreshing when you talk about God as funny, because I don't feel like we do that enough. We don't think about God from like different perspectives. About God from like different perspectives. And if we're truly made in his image, then, like the greatest artist ever right that you can think of on the earth is a piece of God. The most beautiful singer and I'm just thinking of artsy things right now but even like the I don't know the most athletic person ever you know all these different like skills. The most poetic athletic person ever. You know all these different like skills. The most poetic, whatever, the funniest comedian you could ever imagine is a piece of God. But I don't think we always think about those things. So I find it so refreshing when you say God's got jokes. I just think it's amazing it should be a t-shirt or a tattoo, because it's so true.

Speaker 1: 14:50

And I think about, like as a parent for me, I have four kids right and they're all different. And I think about, like as a parent for me, I have four kids right and they're all different and I have to like get to them differently mentally. You know discipline, talks, whatever, and some of them need to learn the hard way. I mean that, just like you said, they're, they're hardheaded, they're strong willed. It serves them super well. But I have to come at them from a different angle than I do. The others that aren't maybe as headstrong, and sometimes it is with humor, because they're just so forthright that you have to like break it with, like being funny. So I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm not nailing that, but God clearly is really good at that and making things and helping you somehow find humor. Only God could do that. How could you find humor in some of the things you've been through. It's amazing. So I really appreciate you sharing that because I just find it refreshing. And it is true that his jokes might not be funny at the time or, like most people wouldn't say they're funny, but if you can appreciate that about him, that you know you trust him, that he's working, I just think that's huge for your own physical, mental health too.

Speaker 1: 15:56

Um, so you mentioned that you lost some friends along the way, which I think is also so relatable, but that also you have some new it sounds like some new people as well as some people that continued on. Are there other things that kind of have helped you along the way? Just keep this joy. Like you seem to just have joy despite your circumstances, which I think we would all want. We all know that. Like we don't know what's coming tomorrow. Right, there's just and you can. You can choose a perspective in that in life, to be like a Debbie Downer and like dread or fear, and we can live in that space and I know the enemy would love us too but you just have this joy about you, regardless of circumstance. I'm curious I know you've mentioned people, but are there other things or other ways that you bring yourself back to that perspective that you seem to have so strong.

Speaker 2: 16:53

Bring yourself back to that perspective that you seem to have so strong. Yeah, I think for me it's a lot. It's music. So, like I was like to pump myself up to like to talk. I was like there's that song, good day. Um, what is it? By Frank. His last name is Frank. I don't know his first name. Uh, what is it? Forrest, frank, right, and he's, like you know, about to have a good day. So I listened to that. Listen, you know, and those are the things that like what, like god's, like all right, you gotta like we're gonna be pumped up to have a good day, or you know, I have this whole like.

Speaker 2: 17:24

There's like a bunch of different songs that, like music is something that really speaks to me. Growing up, I played a lot of instruments. I still can play some of them, but music is really where God and I connect and when I'm like what is going on with you, I put on like a couple at first, like like my go-to songs, whatever they may be this week or the year, I have like uh, grace Got you is like my like long-standing go-to song, um, and like I feel like God's always speaking to me, like through music, being like all right, like no, like even in these circumstances, like I know you, I love you, you're gonna have a good day and yeah, like things might suck sometimes but like I'm always there and I think that's what's carried me through because it's interesting. I've had what I guess people say like not a great, it's not a bad life. Actually I've had a pretty great life when I think about it.

Speaker 2: 18:15

I've had a lot of circumstances in my life from the time I was young until now that, when combined, may be a little strange. So the reason I chose FCC is because the first sermon I saw of Pastor Mark, he was talking about how he had a son who passed away and my brother died when I was younger and that just his resilience and how he dealt with that really was like you and like this community. I'm here for it Because you can take those situations and go a bunch of different ways and I've seen it in my life time with a bunch of people. You can take it and say, okay, like God had a plan for the life and while we're sad here on earth and it sucks, like what, what are the good things that like we're carrying with us and we're moving forward? And so I think that's been my mentality since I was six years old, and so, like I always I'm like very God, like what, what? What gifts are you giving me from the people that I've met? What gifts are you giving me in the day, like I might be in pain or this might be sad, but like I have to find one good thing every day, to like praise him for a thing, for a laugh at him or with him, or laugh at myself, for because I know, like that's why we're going, like he has a plan that I don't understand and I never will understand it exactly. Well, eventually, when I see him, and then we're going to have some serious conversations, but you know, in the meantime I'm just trying to figure it out and I know that he's not telling me and I think, especially because I want to know, I'm not going to know and that's okay, but it's like the mystery. But I also know that he's got it. And there are some days where I don't feel that way and that's where the people come in, that's where, like, having good people are helpful because they can remind me like no, oh, god's got it, like you're right, god's got it, or, and also allowing myself to sit in the suck sometimes, because some days like it stinks and I can say it and. But I think also, having these experiences it, it connects us to other people, even the ones that you don't really know. You know, like in Rise, denise also hurt her foot, so we have commiserated about the knee scooter and things like that. And you know, I say Rise is probably one of the things that have been so instrumental in me.

Speaker 2: 20:33

I think, getting through the past couple of years because I would have never if, on my own, picked the group of women in Rise like just like, oh, like, let me you know. Like, oh, these are the group, these are who's in it. Like yeah, like these are people, let me just like go there. Like these are my friends. No, I didn't really know anyone, it just it happens to be a time that I worked and it worked out and I'm like I we would have never crossed paths if it wasn't for that and I'm like, but like some of the best people I've ever met and I wouldn't change, like I look forward, like I, my body wakes up every morning on Wednesdays and like God's, like oh, even if I didn't sleep well the night before. He's like knock, knock your alarm, you're a lot. You didn't set the alarm, but it's time Like, oh, it's like five, 20. Okay, I'm gonna get on. So those are just the things that I think really helped.

Speaker 2: 21:25

And just having that encouragement um, we're lucky to have a great community, and that started it, I think. And then we have music helps. Uh, journaling really helps too, because it just like I can, once it's out and I let it go, like that's how I let it go and give it to God. I just write it down and give it all out, give it to him and then, and then he can take it from there because he knows what's in my head and what's in my heart. But sometimes I just need to write it down to like officially give it to him. So that's why I kind of like send it off, right, it's in the journal, like you know. You know my heart better than I do, but now I'm just going to give it to you. So I guess that's what I do.

Speaker 1: 22:02

I love that. I so relate to so much of what you're saying. I was drawn to Pastor Mark for similar reasons. You know, grief is part of my jam too, unfortunately, but it's just so real when you hear him talk. He's vulnerable but also he's had hard and I don't know, I guess, growing up in a different denominational church where we didn't really talk about the hard, real stuff. It's so refreshing and I find so much hope in just being, like you said, in community with women who desire to get to know the Lord better, who want to, you know, cling to the vine and all these beautiful things, to stay in the word, be encouraged, and it's so not of the world, like it's something we can't receive from the world and we're all imperfect. So I completely agree Community's huge.

Speaker 1: 22:52

I love that you listen to music. It's amazing how music can just shift right. It's like shift your whole vibe. I'll put some of the songs you mentioned too, or, if you want to text me some of your favorites. I know you said Good Day, you said Grace in you, I think.

Speaker 2: 23:07

Or what was that one Grace Got you by Marcy Me.

Speaker 1: 23:12

Grace Got you. So if you have a couple others, I can put them in the show notes for people. I think that always helps if, especially if it's a song that you haven't heard of before. I love Good Day. I love that song.

Speaker 1: 23:24

Well, juliana, as we're kind of closing here, first of all I just want to thank you again. I know that so many elements of your story are relatable and I'm really just I continue to be impressed by you in your perseverance. So many of the things that I know I don't even know about parts of your story that you could have given up. You know, and you chose to persevere. It is a two-way thing that God does provide. He is always working, he does. I love how he gives us little encouragements along the way to show us that he's working. We miss a lot of it, I think, but because we're just all so busy and distracted. Right, he's, he's communicating and speaking all the time, um, and so we hear some of it. But when we do get to hear it, you know it encourages us to keep going. But I it also is a two part thing. You could choose to stop, right, there's free will. So I'm I'm always continuously proud that you keep going and you keep persevering. It encourages me and I know all of us have reasons why we could stop, you know, and we want to persevere in faith, trust in the Lord, that he's working and that he is always working. That God's, you know, we say what's God up to? He's up to a whole lot times a billion billion people. Um, so we just see like a little window into our little life, but sharing it, I think, is really encouraging. So I again thank you.

Speaker 1: 24:45

And would you have any words?

Speaker 1: 24:47

Like if we're thinking of the woman listening right now and maybe she's in a season and you know you still got things you're struggling with, but you're coming out of some things now, like even hearing you saying maybe going back to teaching law school is so cool, I want to hear more about that.

Speaker 1: 25:05

But like, just you're coming out of some of the hard and going into a new doesn't mean everything's perfect, but you've certainly overcome with the Lord some things. If I'm just thinking of the woman who's like in the heart, like in the mud, in the muck right now, you know, maybe needing to ask for help, like you said, which for a lot of women is really uncomfortable, do you have any like words of encouragement or something that you would have wanted to hear, or maybe something you did hear from the Lord or someone else that really helped, and maybe you've already said it. But do you have any like last, any closing words or anything else you didn't get to say that you would want to say to her? You've already said it, but do you have any like last any closing words or?

Speaker 2: 25:43

anything else you didn't get to say that you would want to say to her. I guess I would probably just say, like I guess, pay attention to the people around you, in a sense, because God talked through everyone and everything, like not just like the people at church, but, like you know, the people at the grocery store, like the people at church, but, like you know, the people at the grocery store. I had a lot of uber drivers and lyft drivers, um, who would talk to me about God or who would play K-Love and things like that, where I was like, oh, we're gonna have the conversation and we're just gonna talk, and they're like, do you do this? We do? Okay, we're gonna talk. And it was just days where, like it was extra harder, I was in a little bit more pain and, instead of like sitting in the suck and just like not talking and being upset, I just, you know, said hello and opened that window to different people who I would have never talked to, kind of gave me some of that hope and encouragement. Talk to who kind of gave me some of that hope and encouragement. And then I guess the other thing I would say is it might be a valley and suck right now, but he's with us and and, but also and like and it might not feel like it, because it doesn't always feel like it at that point and I think that's when you know doing the things that like, not fake it until you make it, but doing like one thing. If you can find one thing every day, that's like okay, this was good today. I think that's really what helped me.

Speaker 2: 27:11

And someone told me that's like what's one good thing that happened Like, because there are a lot of bad things that happened in a lot of days. Like I was, like, I was in pain here and there there's a point where I couldn't like no, I couldn't leave the house, I know, and I was by myself. What's like one good thing? Okay, like, I learned about a new show, I like read a new book. I learned about the she reads truth like podcast, and I read a lot of those Like.

Speaker 2: 27:37

So just different things that like what's one thing today that happened that like I was like hey, that was a good thing, that was a God moment or or something like that, and it was one thing can then turned into a couple more things and and more, and then you just feel a little bit better. But if you can just find even at the tiniest thing, you know, it helps feel a little better about the days when things really suck and that, even when you're sitting in the suck, god there too and and he knows, and he doesn't like it, but it's also part of like, when we look back, something that might even just connect you to someone who might be your new best friend.

Speaker 1: 28:15

So I love that. I love that thank you for saying. And it's like when you're prone to just maybe wanting to be quiet instead and keeping it, you know, kind of wallowing in your own stuff, which is so tempting sometimes, but getting yourself outside of yourself to look for those things or say hi to that Uber, I love it. God can use it all. It's so true. Well, julianne, I hope you have a wonderful day and I'll be praying for your. It sounds like kind of new, I don't know journey back to school, maybe in more than one way it sounds. I'm really excited about that. I'm really excited to hear more and I'll be seeing you at Rise, probably in the, the next study, if I get to pop in. And ladies, we're thinking of you all this morning. Whoever is listening, we don't know when you listen or who you are even.

Speaker 1: 29:12

It's kind of a neat, neat thing to just trust God with these recordings. They go out into the world and he does what he does with it. So it's free for the taking. If something you feel like when you were listening it reminded you of someone, or you know someone in the hard place, like what Juliana's gone through a few times now, maybe share it with her. You know we want to be a woman who, just as Juliana said, encourage others, connect with others. We're meant to be in the world, so we're not meant to be in like our cozy little corners and just stay there. So get out into the world, be brave and know the Lord is with you and encourage somebody while you're at it. Be a woman who chooses to encourage her. Happy Monday and we'll see you again next Monday. Love to you all.