Gretchen and Katie are finally back together, and they have a lot of catching up to do. We talk about trying to find our New Year's "word of the year." We talk about looking ahead to the next year, and what God has been teaching us. Gretchen talks about people pleasing and identifying as Eustace Scrubb. We discuss navigating big family changes, and bracing for what we don't know.

There's a couple of announcements in this episode, about each of us, and about the podcast, so this is an episode you don't want to miss.

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