Elizabeth Smart
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's a huge part of it.
I am so grateful for the values that I was raised with.
I am grateful for the importance that family played in my life, for the belief that God is kind and loving and he's merciful and not vindictive and a harsh, cruel God.
I'm so grateful for that.
as a grown up, and looking back on everything that happened.
And honestly, looking at a lot of things in this world, I think it's too easy for a religion to, again, I agree with you, there's many beautiful things.
I'm grateful for all of those things.
But also now as an adult, just because someone tells me something that doesn't mean I believe it.
And it sounds maybe like I'm
My dad leaving the church as we're talking about?
It was like six or seven in the morning.
And I was in such a sleep deprived state because the baby wasn't sleeping.
And I swear I was up all night.
So you see a phone call at like six or seven in the morning.