Adam Curtis:
Hello and welcome to episode 36 of The Delight Podcast. I’m your host, Adam Curtis, and today I’m joined by not your host, but our guest, Leah Sax.
Leah Sax:
Hello, Adam Curtis. I like how you call it “the” Delight Podcast. I just go Delight Podcast. But you make it like a ‘The”. It’s like a thing.
Adam Curtis:
It is a thing. It is a thing. And people need to know that Leah. Tell us about last week. Leah.
Leah Sax:
Last week we had Matt Searles doing a whole Bible overview. Our goal was 40 minutes. We made it to just over 50. But to get the entire narrative of the Bible in that time was incredible. Also, Matt was hilarious because normally, dear listener, we prepare questions. We prepare questions. Matt was like, let’s go for a free for all. Adam, bless his cotton picking socks, was like, okay.
Adam Curtis:
Yeah, Matt worked me hard. It was like the biggest topic we’ve ever done. We haven’t got pre-prepared questions. And like, I’m just like on the moment, trying to like direct this so that we can get it in like 40, 50 minutes.
Leah Sax:
We’ve got a shared Google doc that’s live, obviously. So I’m just editing, like maybe ask about covenant. Maybe he’s like, okay. And then so Adam did a great job, as did Matt Searles, by the way.
Adam Curtis:
Oh, yeah. It’s such a, such a good episode. In fact, that was a good episode. And I think this is going to be a great episode as well, where we interview Leah and Leah, dear listeners, is a musician and entertainer and wannabe podcaster.
Leah Sax:
Oh, Adam, I try so hard with a wannabe.
Adam Curtis:
So, Leah, what does the weekly life of a saxophonist look like?
Leah Sax:
Well, it varies week to week. It can mean doing very little and spending my entire week podcasting. Or it could mean being at airports all week. Or it could mean gigging. So I am a self-employed freelance musician, so I play at private events, at weddings, corporates, at bars, venues, anyone who’ll basically pay me and I entertain. I’m there to give a crowd a good time to fill the room with joy. Essentially, I try with joy through the saxophone. That can mean like, if I’m on an evening gig, I’ll leave home kind of about 4 or 5 p.m., get home about two in the morning. That can be a different place every day from different clients or bands or agents. It can mean quite a lot of travel. I’m very thankful that I get to travel quite a lot for work. I still teach about a dozen students on the piano and on the saxophone and flute and clarinet, and then I do lots of other things that are kind of parallel to that, but it’s quite a full and rich life, which I’m very thankful for.
Adam Curtis:
It sounds full and rich. If anyone follows Leah on Instagram, it looks pretty jazzy sometimes, but when you speak to Leah on the phone, you realise that it’s not all jazz. Sometimes there’s the long delays on flights and, I don’t know, have to be hours before anyone else is at a gig.
Leah Sax:
Yes, I think of that leaving at 5 p.m. and getting home at 2 a.m., I’m actually playing music for about 90 minutes to 2 hours. So that’s the actual on stage time. The rest of it is obviously hair and makeup, travelling, being in the green room, sound check things, running over things running late, getting to the airport at 4 a.m. for a 6 a.m. flight, which means leaving home at 2:30 a.m., going somewhere, doing a gig that evening, flying back the next day, making it to church, which is always a goal. Um. It’s exhausting.
Adam Curtis:
Tell me about your most memorable gig.
Leah Sax:
Most memorable gig? This is” you’re asking the lady hasn’t got any memory. Thank the Lord for Instagram, which enables me to take photos. In 2025 I had a very fun gig, which was playing on a yacht by the track at the Monaco Grand Prix, which was just crazy. I had no idea what that gig was going to be until I really got there, because it was like, this is we don’t have any plans. This is blahblahbalch. And then I slowly realised that it was like, oh, the F1’s actually F1’s quite a big deal. And my nephew thought it was the most amazing thing. And as a result of that and spotting me on Sky sports, it’s now the biggest F1 eight year old that you’ll ever meet in your entire life.
Adam Curtis:
That’s incredible. Okay. I love the fact that you didn’t really know much about F1.
Leah Sax:
Well, it wasn’t until I was on pole position, like taking a selfie. And then I remembered watching the Monaco Grand Prix with my dad when I was a kid, and him telling me that it was special because it was like, I mean, I was speaking now on a podcast as if I know anything about F1, it’s because it’s a narrow… lanes? Track! Track!
Adam Curtis:
Okay, well, on that, let’s move quickly on. Okay, on to maybe topics which are Leah’s strong point. Let’s let’s move on to our Lord and Saviour.
Leah Sax:
Yes.
Adam Curtis:
Tell me how you came to know Jesus.
Leah Sax:
I came to know Jesus at a young age. I don’t really remember a time without knowing about God. My father, who we actually interviewed on this podcast. My father worked in the Christian world and my mother is very faithful and about seven years old, i remember my mother sitting on the side of my bed and saying, do you want to make Jesus the boss of your life? And I thought, that seems like a good idea. And I went, yes. And she said, okay, you’ve got to say a little prayer and give your life to the Lord. And that was that little moment of seven year old Leah, which I do say is significant because of the aforementioned lack of memory. So the fact that I actually remember that happening, I found the Lord enables me to remember significant people and significant events in my life first meeting them. He’s been very kind in letting me remember important things. And so since then, it’s been a steady drip of a of a lovely bath, slowly filling with his knowledge and love and wisdom. I can’t remember any dramatic events, any big things happening. There have been some really tricky times. My father passed away nearly four years ago now. That was a time where I’ve never really felt the the phrase, people say the power of prayer, you feel the power of prayer. I really did feel it. The time I felt closest to the Lord actually was in those few months after he passed away in that grief and simultaneously knowing he was with our Saviour. And then I’ve had many, many blessings along the way and many wonderful people along the way.
Adam Curtis:
And any significant pieces of Scripture which have really made your heart sing.
Leah Sax:
[sings] So many make my heart sing literally. [end sing voice] I’ve got so many that make that make my heart sing. And ones that I try to have a heart attitude of. Whether it’s in the detail of the stress of cast all your anxieties on him or do you not worry about anything but everything in prayer and supplication make your requests known to God, and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds. I’ve had that on the wall since I was a little girl. I actually found it recently because I was doing some massive clearing. I took a little photo for nostalgia, might post it on the on on the Instagram be like, here’s my poster I made when I was 11. I love the verses of being slow to speak and quick to listen. That heart attitude of listening to God and listening to others and guarding what your mouth says, she says, speaking on a podcast incessantly. I love that God gives us.. So many. I could keep going about all my favourite Bible passages about how God gives us wisdom and promises his wisdom. I think that is precious. I’ve got so many I could just keep going. I feel like I haven’t cross-referenced them any with actual phrases. One of them is Philippians, one of them is Proverbs, and the last one was Adam….
Adam Curtis:
Pressures on. Pressures on.
Leah Sax:
Yes, wisdom. Actually it’s Proverbs, but it’s somewhere else as well that I was referring to anyway.
Adam Curtis:
Well, I was just going to say I love the fact that actually they just oozed out of you as you as you were speaking. They were just in your head, in your heart, and they came out of your lips.
Leah Sax:
That’s kind of the Holy Spirit to let me enable that at that point.
Adam Curtis:
Well, there we go. So the Holy Spirit works, isn’t it? To memorise his Word and then and then His Word stays with us, and it comforts us and it leads us. Now, we’ve decided to do this episode because we want to help our listeners to think through what it looks like to live for Jesus at work. Leah, you. Yeah, you have quite a jazzy job, but also it’s just a job like everyone else’s. There’s high days and low days.
Leah Sax:
It’s not just a job. Adam!! But I do see what you’re saying Yes.
Adam Curtis:
Wow. You’re making this hard to create a link Leah. Yeah. We want to interview Leah just to discover what living for Jesus at work looks like. Let’s go back to Leah and her jazzy business of being a saxophonist. How have you ended up in the music career that you’re in?
Leah Sax:
In earthly worlds, in an earthly mindset, accidentally.
Adam Curtis:
In earthly world??
Leah Sax:
In an earthly world, sorry in a worldly.
Adam Curtis:
I’ve never heard these phrases before.
Leah Sax:
As in like, if I didn’t know Jesus, it would feel like an accident. But because I do know Jesus, it is his good and sovereign plan. I did a music degree back in the day. Uh, look at him. Adam’s given me, like, joyful hands. I did a music degree and a master’s degree. I have a master’s degree in historical musicology. So, so there.
Adam Curtis:
Fancy.
Leah Sax:
Fancy fancy. She’s got she can spell in my 20s. It was really slow. I was doing lots of teaching. I knew I wanted to perform, I love playing. I struggled a lot with whether that was a good job because it doesn’t have any tangible outgoing. It’s not like, here you go, I’ve made a table or I’ve produced a report or done a PowerPoint. Whether that was a valid way of actually earning a living and honouring the Lord in that. I was very encouraged by that, because in Genesis you learn that there’s a father of music who’s Jubal, and I’m like, okay, there’s musicians in the Bible, we good! And then I just kept turning up to gigs and doing a good job. And what I mean by a good job is being friendly and respectful and doing what I’ve been asked. And then the Lord really opened doors in my 30s, which for my industry is actually quite late.
Leah Sax:
A lot of people find success kind of in their mid 20s, but I was kind of in my early 30s when that happened. And I love that it was at that time because the Lord clearly, looking back at that time, used the time in my 20s to teach me about who he is, who I am, why I’m doing what I’m doing, because I feel very called to be in this world because it’s full of people, the music and art scene will always be the most culturally and spiritually liberal place because creativeness is frequently in the world about pushing boundaries. So you need to be fairly equipped as a believer to go into that space and feel at peace with who you are in the Lord. So it was only in my 30s that that happened. I just kept grafting, kept doing a good job, and then doors opened, doors opened, people said yes, people said yes, which means that I end up everywhere with everyone in all places, in ridiculous clothes that are fabulous. And I’ve got lots of false eyelashes and I’ve got good recommendation for eyeliner if you want one that won’t move.
Adam Curtis:
Thank you. We… I will take your recommendations for eyeliner later. No, you say that the music industry is culturally and spiritually just a very liberal place. How do you live then, distinctively for Jesus in that place?
Leah Sax:
No different than I do on a Sunday. There’s not two different Leahs. Leah’s just the same woman that you meet on the podcast, the same woman that you’ll meet if you come to see me at Christ Church, Mayfair, and the same person that you meet, if you bump into me at Tescos and the same person who’s on a gig, there is no different version of Leah. If somebody asks me how my weekend went, I was like, it was great. I went to church, we had Bible study, podcast is currently out, lots of work doing all this. Saw my family and I had a gig. It’s all the same person, the same same phrase. And I have now forgotten what your question is now Adam.
Adam Curtis:
And can I just throw in how there’s only one Leah rather than four different types of layer. I have invited Leah around my house for dinner and she has arrived in her sparkles, in her glitter with the with the fake eyelashes. And it’s just like, boom, work Leah is here because there’s only one Leah.
Leah Sax:
There’s only one Leah because I was actually going to a gig. I didn’t turn up to dinner like that, but I was really like, you had one of your congregation members and you only just started the vicar, didn’t you? And I turned up in full craziness that that poor gentleman. Who are these vicars friends?!
Adam Curtis:
I know he quickly left the building. No, the question was, Leah how do you live distinctively for Jesus in the music industry?
Leah Sax:
Helpful. So there’s no difference in Leah, but I love being asked questions because they always come up. I remember a time where for three consecutive weeks people asked me in green rooms. So Green Rooms is just the place where we hang out. You know, it could be a hallway or it could be a grand ballroom before we actually do a set. And ask me questions on gender, sexuality and identity for three consecutive weeks. And I was like, great. I love these questions. I have a heart of openness. I’ve literally said so many times on my. You can ask me anything, I don’t mind. I might not know the answer, but you can ask me anything. So there’s a practical, conversational way. They know that I’m a believer straight away to the extent where I was talking to a friend. They’re like my Christian friend Leah. That’s who I am. I’m the Christian friend, Leah. And when my friends are going through things, I will pray for them and tell them I’m praying for them, whether they are a believer or not. And then there are many more things, whether it’s just trying to do a good job, turning up on time, being respectful, making friends with everybody. I feel that the Lord has called me and what I mean by that he’s given a clear path and affirmed that with repeat work and good fellowship in this job, and he’s given me the task of loving whatever person he has put in front of me in that moment, whether that is an audience, whether that is an individual, whether that is a barman or that is a doorman, or that is a brother or sister at church. And that’s how we want to live for Jesus. And I love getting those questions. So why so why? And I’m like, come at me.
Adam Curtis:
Come at me. Leah the boxer. Come on.
Leah Sax:
Oh, no, don’t. Box number one hands. Number two nails. Number three. Violence. Number four. Upper body strength.
Adam Curtis:
I don’t know if I believe that number four anymore.
Leah Sax:
Gym girlie arn’t I?
Adam Curtis:
,Now that you’re, uh, you’ve been doing the weights in the gym.
Leah Sax:
I know, who is she? Who is she? Adam.
Adam Curtis:
I know she’s changed. She’s changed. This leopard can change its spots now. Leah. I’m now going to go off script.
Leah Sax:
I love it. I’m gonna do a Matt Searles and be like, come at me.
Adam Curtis:
Come at me.
Leah Sax:
Come at Me.
Adam Curtis:
The boxer is back. Because I also remember you talking about how in the midst of your work life, you use things in your work life to sort of tune your heart to the glory of God, and you use some of your songs that you are playing, performing to do that. Can you tell us a bit more about that and how that encourages you to live for Jesus in the middle of a very worldly environment?
Leah Sax:
Oh yeah. We definitely talked about this on this series actually, haven’t we? Which is using pop songs and re-appropriating them for Christian purposes. Uh, ain’t nobody loves me better than Jesus. And we found love. [sings] We found love in a hopeless place. [stops singing] Rihanna. In my mind, that is the story of Jesus coming down to earth into a hopeless place. The Lord came down and was good. Obviously. [sings] Take the shackles off my feet so I can dance [stops singing] the Mary Mary Shackles tune. But so many of those songs you just. In those moments, you stop and you go right, this is who I am in this moment, to try and pull me out of that worldly aspect of being on stage under the lights and put me back as a child of God. And it brings me true joy and true peace. If I have Christian brothers or sisters on the gig, I try and pray with them beforehand, which can feel a bit awkward because frequently they’ll be from slightly different Christian traditions to you, where it may not be the thing, but I’m like, no, we’re told to pray continuously and in all circumstances, let’s go and do that.
Adam Curtis:
You talk now, as a woman who’s been in the music industry for many years, living for Jesus here for many years, and so obviously you’re speaking from this place of confidence and experience, but maybe can you just take us back over the years, how has living for Jesus changed over time?
Leah Sax:
It’s interesting because I don’t think 25 year old Leah would say the phrase, come at me with your questions, to the extent that I distinctly remember even being a leader on camp, mentoring these young people going, oh, I don’t know the answer to that. What would I say if somebody said, so? Do you hate everyone who doesn’t live according to the Bible? And I’d be like, maahuh? So I think the Lord’s been very kind in practically equipping me with knowledge and understanding of His word through the Holy Spirit, and that’s been through brothers and sisters, that’s been through church, that’s been through family. And so I feel like I’ve grown in knowledge and understanding. I think I have a great peace probably that peace that surpasses all understanding that I am where God wants me to be. And knowing that you can’t escape his sovereign plan gives you a great peace in what you’re doing and how you’re honouring him, and also accepting that I’m going to get things wrong. I’m number one, going to give incorrect answers just because I’m a human being every now and again. You know, I’m always a human being. The incorrect answers are every now and again, but also knowing that the Lord is the one at work, not me. And in all of that, he’s removed my concern of FOMO, the fear of missing out. What that means in work is like, what if I don’t do this gig? What if I don’t do that? What if God is the one that is in control of everything, which means that I’m there to serve him in everything that I do, because I want to live his way and not my way, which makes me sound really holy. But that’s the goal, even though I forget it on the regular.
Adam Curtis:
That is the goal, even though we forget it on the regular. It’s very true, isn’t it? His spirit is sanctifying us even when we forget it. And sometimes it’s only when we look back over all these years that we can actually see how much sanctification the spirit has done.
Leah Sax:
And how faithful God has been when we have not been faithful. You know, I can think of times where, I remember two and a half years. Oh, sometime where work was so busy that I couldn’t get to church for almost 2 or 3 months. And the first time I was back at church, I was on a leading sung worship. And I think I’ve shared this story before on the pod, so forgive me, but it really sticks out in my memory. And I came to lead this band of brothers and sisters feeling so ill equipped, feeling so hypocritical and feeling so weak because I hadn’t been in fellowship and I hadn’t been in in the word as much as I know I should have been, and I’d been living in this very sparkly world. But I remember that time of service. God used that. And I remember Ben Slee, who’s a good friend of mine. We’ve spoken about him frequently. He’s been on the podcast. He’s our music pastor, saying that was really special. When you led Sung worship. I could see the spirit shaping you back into Leah again, and I think that’s incredibly kind of the Lord to use my weakness for his glory and for my refinement and my growing and bringing me back into fellowship through that.
Leah Sax:
That was incredibly generous. And therefore through that, what I’ve learned is that being in fellowship is incredibly important. Being with brothers and sisters is incredibly important. If I can make church for ten minutes, if I’ve come in from somewhere else, if I can make the last bit of the last song, and then that time of hanging out afterwards, if I can make the beginning of a sermon and then go somewhere else, if I can WhatsApp brothers and sisters say, hi guys, I’m not going to be at church for the next three weeks, but please check in on me. That’s the absolute priority to my health as a believer in a world that is literally the most sparkly, luxurious, exotic world you will be in. You know, if somebody can afford to fly a band out to Morocco for the weekend, that’s just a different realm of financial security. And therefore people’s goals on the whole tend to be very different to what my goals are.
Adam Curtis:
Now, someone might be listening to all this later and be thinking to themselves, I just I don’t feel that confident. I don’t feel like I could be that bold to be answering questions on gender, sexuality, faith, to be known as a Christian saxophonist. Like, what encouragement would you give to someone who just doesn’t feel particularly bold?
Leah Sax:
What is wonderful about how God created us is when God created. In the beginning, God created. He didn’t just make one type of human being. He didn’t make us all the same. God created us and he created you as an individual, as individuals. He’s made each one of us different and given each one of us different things, different ways in which to honour and glorify him. Now there are many, many things that unite us. We do stand on the authority of the gospel. We are not ashamed, but he uses us differently for different purposes. As many things I can tell you, things I enjoy. I love speaking about this about Jesus. I can equally say, here are the things that I am not strong at, which is nowhere more evident in the church when we see us as the body, where everyone’s doing different things and serving in different ways with different skill sets. So if you’re a mum at home or a dad at home, who are the people God has put in your life to love in this moment and to serve for him? If you are in the office, who are the people God has put in your path to love and serve? And then going from that attitude and going, right, I’m told to love biblically.
Leah Sax:
We’re told that we need to love those around us and to respect those around us, and to share the life of Jesus with those around us. What does that look like? But doing it in the way that God’s created your heart. So if you’re a quiet speaker, that is a gift. If you are a writer, that is a gift. If you are a prayer, that is a gift. We just had a lovely church weekend away on hospitality, which seems like a rogue topic, but it was incredible because it was all about welcoming the stranger. It was with Jason Roach, who’s an incredible man, and his one question to ask people is, do you have a faith? So I was tempted to ask that, who did I ask that to? The guy in the coffee shop. The guy who owns the coffee shop. That’s who it was. That’s who it was. So yeah, I’d ask the guy in the coffee shop, do you have a faith? And that encouraged me to have a bit more boldness than I normally had with someone I don’t know as well.
Adam Curtis:
God made us uniquely with unique gifts, unique talents, unique abilities, and put us in unique places. And if he’s the one who’s made us and put us there, then he’s the one who’s going to enable us to live for his glory there. Hmm. Can you give us some advice for how we can prepare our hearts as we go into very worldly environments and contexts?
Leah Sax:
Advice that seems like I know all the answers and I don’t.
Adam Curtis:
A few tips.
Leah Sax:
A few Tips. I think recognising that we live in a supernatural world and that God is supernaturally at work through His Spirit, I think we forget that. It becomes very much that this is the person to the thing at the time, in the order that. Makes us feel like we are in control of our world, and we don’t believe sometimes that God can do big and massive things. So knowing that God is at work, something again, that I this wonderful weekend where we had was the passage that says the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, which is a passage, I’m not gonna lie. I know so well. I’m like, yeah, the workers come on. And I’d always gone. The workers are few guys. Come on, we need to work. We need to work, guys. Let’s let’s live for the gospel. But what I forgot / I never realised is that the harvest is plentiful. The harvest is plentiful. Which means we are the workers to go and find that harvest. In my human mind, the harvest isn’t there, but the harvest is plentiful and we are called. And how exciting that God has given us each a heart to go and be the workers for his harvest field. God is at work. There are people. He is changing lives every day and in every moment, and to pray in every situation. And that can be a sense of like, Lord, would I be respectful and prayerful with this person at this time. Lucy’s episode I really loved about the praying in stillness, but that God of detail. She was talking about how God uses time and people supernaturally. But it also impacted my thinking of I can pray for this specific thing, for this specific person, this specific event, and God cares about that.
Adam Curtis:
Oh, Leah, it’s been a joy having you on this episode as our guest.
Leah Sax:
Well, thank you so much. Adam.
Adam Curtis:
Feels like justice after the time we, uh, did an episode where we were meant to both be guests, and then you just made me do all the hard work.
Leah Sax:
I know it’s because you are a great vicar, Adam, and you have great knowledge and understanding. And I found the more I had to think about giving a clear, concise answer to things, I was like, oh, I need to think through this more. And then you had the better answer.
Adam Curtis:
You charmer. Well, it’s been a joy having you on this episode, but it’s also been a joy knowing you over all these years, making this podcast with you, but also being a friend with you for many, many years now. Seeing the Holy Spirit work in you. And that’s one of our great desires with the Delight Podcast is that this might help people to grow and to be sanctified and to be changed into the likeness of Jesus. So as you sort of think about the future, the weeks ahead, the months ahead, what are you praying for? How are you hoping that the Lord might sanctify you?
Leah Sax:
My prayer, which I sometimes pray defiantly as opposed to emotionally wanting it, as in defiantly it is a good thing and that is what I know I should want. Is would your will be done, not mine. Would you place me where you want me to be. So I can serve you best. Because I know what I want. I want this gig and in this place, with this people for this money. But that is not how we are called to live. So I pray that he makes it clear that I am where he wants me to be, which because my job is so transient, like I’m not salaried. So that’s that’s a different prayer for me, right? And I have to make different calls on every single gig or, you know, whether I choose to do a podcast this season or whether I choose to serve in this way that I am where he wants me to be, and that he changes the desires of my heart to be that as well. So that’s the prayer that he would be at work and that he would be leading me in every step so that with the people he puts in my path, he may be known.
Leah Sax:
That makes me sound way more holy than I feel on the daily, but can I just say that that makes me sound like some kind of perfect queen. That’s not who I am. Adam knows me. That’s not who I am. But I think that’s a prayer. And I feel that because I have so many decisions to make in terms of work on the daily, every gig is a different mini contract. Think of it that way. And a lot of it’s taking risks. Like for me, if I do camp in the summer, that’s a week off work that’s not paid leave. That’s me proactively not taking work in my busiest season. This year i’m also leading part of sung worship at Keswick. Again, that’s a whole nother week off in peak season. But trusting the Lord without that, his will be done. That he is first in my heart in all things. So that is the prayer for this year. And Lord willing, my life.
Adam Curtis:
Oh, and that is a beautiful prayer. That is a beautiful prayer. Amen, sister. Amen.
Leah Sax:
Adam, can I ask you the bonus question for this season?
Adam Curtis:
What? Outrageous. You’re gonna turn it on me?
Leah Sax:
I’m gonna turn it on you because I don’t feel that we’ve had enough of your wonderful voice. And it’s just been me yabbering on about saxophones.
Adam Curtis:
Sharing wisdom and joy. Hit me. Oh, there’s a bonus question. I wasn’t expecting this. What’s the bonus question? Leah.
Leah Sax:
The bonus question. Dear Reverend Adam Curtis, can you tell us about a person God has used to shape your faith?
Adam Curtis:
My mum and dad…. Do want more?
Leah Sax:
I always want more. Adam.
Adam Curtis:
Yeah, mum and dad. I think, you know, in a huge way. I look back on being a child and mum would read his Bible stories. Dad used to go to work at 6:00 every day and come home at 7:30 every night. He worked really hard to support me and my three siblings. And what did he do with his Saturday evenings? Did he take his well-deserved rest? No. He ran the youth club at church on a Saturday evening and preached the gospel. And so yeah, I look at mom and dad. I’m just so grateful for how they told me about Christ and showed me Christ. Leah, can I ask you the bonus question?
Leah Sax:
Oh,
Adam Curtis:
You thought you got away with it.
Leah Sax:
You know what? I’m going to go. I’m going to go rogue. I’m going to not answer the question because I’m going to give you like ten different people off the top of my head.
Adam Curtis:
All right, Go!
Leah Sax:
I thought you I thought you were gonna hold your hands up and give me, like, a ten countdown.
Adam Curtis:
No, I like that even more.
Leah Sax:
Okay. Number one, my mum and dad, who are gonna count as one because they were just filled with wisdom and patience. And I remember being a teenager asking massive questions, and they just listened and answered number two. Adam Curtis, co-host of podcast, who has just been a great brother for…
Adam Curtis:
Charmer, charmer, charmer.
Leah Sax:
…Many, many, many years and is always at the end of a phone. And I love that. Number three, Sarah Mason. She is a wonderful sister of mine and she’s been the most refreshing person ever because she just gives like really great, normal answers to things. She’s like, yeah, that’s just rubbish. Sometimes you need to mourn with those who mourn. I’m like, yes, oh my goodness. Number four Sarah and Ben Slee, who are amazing couple at church. My family is their family. They are always there for me. That is a real epitome of that. Number five. My pastors at my church, Matt Fuller and Phil Allcock, who are full of wisdom, grace, humility and they teach the word faithfully. Number six, my sister and her husband, um, Lani and Lani and David Charlwood, sorry, we call him Charlie. So when I have to say his name, actual David Charlwood, they are godly. Their home is always open to me and I think that is absolutely precious. Number whatever number I want now.
Adam Curtis:
Seven,
Adam Curtis:
Seven. Uh, Phil and Em short. Phil Short has been a guest here and he has been a music brother and a brother in the Lord for many, many years. And that has been absolutely precious. Number.
Adam Curtis:
Eight.
Leah Sax:
Yeah, there we go. Number eight. Fee. Jameson fee. Jameson has been an OG friend from the beginning of my time at Christ Church, Mayfair. She is hilarious. She’s also fabulous because she is a bit raucous, like I am in many ways, and I love that in a Christian sister. Next one!
Adam Curtis:
Nine!
Leah Sax:
My goodness. If I miss people out, it’s gonna be horrible. Uh, Kundai, Kundai! I met in the last couple of years. She is in my Bible study group. She is a beautiful heart and I love her and she loves the Lord. And actually, you know her brother really well.
Adam Curtis:
Yes. My brother and his family come to my church. Boom. And then number ten.
Leah Sax:
Number ten. I’m just going to be a complete cheat, which is going to say my family at Christ Church, Mayfair, because they have turned up.
Adam Curtis:
That’s because there’s too many people.
Leah Sax:
There’s too many people because I can name Bible study leaders, I can name mentors, and I can make individuals and I can name all these people. And that’s just ridiculous because they’re all I’m sure there’s somebody absolutely key. I’ve absolutely missed off. That’s just, just, just what it’s going to be. Yeah. Those are the they’re going to go with ten. There we go.
Adam Curtis:
Thank you, Leah Sax, for being our guest on episode 36 of the Delight Podcast. And that’s a wrap of the episode. And tragically, that is a wrap of the season.
Leah Sax:
Yes, but we have discovered that we’re now actually are going to record a season eight, aren’t we?
Adam Curtis:
Bum bum bum hot off the press. Newsflash season eight is going to be recorded at some point in the future, but we don’t know when.
Leah Sax:
Yes. Now, on a practical point, just as a reminder, guys, we do only record and release every spring because I do the saxophone and Adam is a reverend and we’re time limited. So please do stick with us and be patient and gracious, if you would, in our socials and in listening, but still do keep recommending because that is lovely. We didn’t do a little bit to pause to say, please, if you like, share and subscribe. That would make a huge difference because it actually does. So if you fancy doing that, that would be great. Thank you so much for staying with us this season. We are incredibly grateful. This is Adam and Leah delightfully signing off. Bye bye.
Adam Curtis:
Goodbye.
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