Emilie McCormack

That's really tricky.

And they mean well.

They mean actually probably they have the most to gain or lose maybe because they want to hold you close.

I know.

or maybe because your decision impacts them deeply, or maybe they can't quite see clearly because your decision's gonna really cause grief.

There's just a lot of layers to that.

And so in our processing and discernment, we needed people that were outside of our immediate impact that could give us counsel, that they had nothing to gain or lose, and they were just able to think clearly for us in that decision.

That's really wise.

And so counsel.

The fourth is doors.

God has given us a mind.

He has given us, we are human beings.

We are living in embodied humans.

So he opens doors and he closes doors.

We see that often in scripture of places people could not go.

There was not an opportunity for them to go and travel.

And then other places there was favor and doors.

And it was like, I'm going there.

The gospel, I'm going to bring the gospel there.

And that was really big for me in our discerning is like, we see a major door open here.