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On this episode of the You Inspire Me Podcast, Hope had the opportunity to interview her dear friend, Ellen Dunlavey. Ellen says that “when you are inspired [and] doing something you don’t feel like it’s as hard… it’s not you who is pushing yourself to do it, but it feels easy like it’s not a burden.” Ellen is inspired by so many things, including her quiet time in the Bible and her family. Ellen is a wonderful friend, a true joy, and an humble servant of God.

References

• Ellen lives in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., which has 3 electoral college votes (Hope mistakenly said 1 in the show)
• She shares that she came to have a personal relationship with God during her time at American University and alongside her friend and mentor, Sarah
• Right now, Ellen is doing a plan to read the Bible chronologically in a year
• Ellen shared Romans 5:1-5 (ESV) with us which reads, “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

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