![]() ![]() I felt like I could relate to these women a little bit more, especially the ones who are struggling and looking for answers and feeling, “God, where are you in this?” I think that’s a question that many people of faith asked last year. ![]() So I think the stories are illuminated in a different way because of the crisis that everybody was going through at that point. ![]() And of reaching and looking for help and for comfort. So I feel like the stories did take on a different nuance to me, because everybody was sort of in a place of pain at some point last year. I saw that in these stories, because there are women who prayed for years and years and years for something to come to fruition, or they’re betrayed we have widowhood in this book, infertility I mean, very 2021 problems, and 2020 problems. We either personally - or people close to us - suffered a lot of loss, and a lot of pain and uncertainty, and heartache. Yeah, you make a great point, because I think all of us were rattled last year. ![]()
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