Maria Wendt

And when it stops working for me, I'll stop.

So yeah, it's just easy.

It's easy.

Yeah, I'm going back to church.

I hadn't gone to church in like 10 years.

It was like, yeah, except for like holidays when I'm with my mom and you're kind of like forced into it.

No, now I go every Sunday and I bring Ellie and it's just... I was literally in church last weekend and I had tears in my eyes because I...

I spent 10 years away from that peace and actually never really had experienced that peace as a childhood either.

And so really like in the last year or two, there's just this feeling of peace.

Almost like when you go to your grandma's house and you just like, Oh, we're home.

Or like you go somewhere where it's like, ah, and you can like,

let down everything and there are a lot of pressures for me i have people who's um you know they pay their mortgage with with my employment with them and there's you know i have a responsibility to all my students and i feel pressure i have a pressure to make sure ellie has a good life and i go into church and it just goes away all melts away and it's hard not to want to come to that every week yeah i haven't been in over 10 years i'd be very curious what it'd be like if i went back

I think it just has to be the right time.

Like that's what I've learned is I would not have been receptive to that if I hadn't had my life completely upended.

I lost a lot of things I wanted.

I had to make a totally different vision for the future.

And I don't think I would have been receptive at all until I got to that point.

And so it's a nice little accident that came out of it.

It was like just a sense of peace, which was really nice.

I like to feel peaceful and contented.