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So I'm just sharing this story, okay, this is not me telling you what to do in life, but Sherry's been doing this, having been doing this, we're actually doing a day off every week

And we have different days, I know people have convictions about that, but we take us a day where we're not doing any work

So that, if we're not productive, it teaches us, it teaches me, I am not my productivity.

I can just enjoy God, it's not about me getting stuff done, the world's not gonna fall apart

And it's been wonderful, but I ran into a real brick wall a couple weeks ago, I had a book deadline, a huge book deadline, final deadline on Monday

And I was usually take Saturday, and I was like, it's not even close to done, so I don't have a choice, I gotta work

And then I thought, wait, but that's the whole point.

That is the point, that's what I struggle with.

It's the discipline, it's what teaches you, will the world fall apart or not?

Or could something else happen where the deadline gets extended out of nowhere or something, can I just take trust?

Can I be faithful over it?

I had to say, it's not about me and my productivity, it's so hard, so it's way harder than you think, but you spend that day just, you pray, you play, you rest

I don't do anything productive, well, so I did it, I even told my wife, she sees me sitting out front, doing nothing

It's like you're doing your Sabbath thing, I said, yep, and we had a good day, and I got that book done

I was a buzz saw the next day of content, I was so thankful, that's what I asked God to do, I didn't know way, I think I write all that, get all that and all came together

I wanted to share that because that was hard, but when you practice disciplines like that, you start to see, again God's so good, it is a relationship

Your mom sat you down and said, I noticed your Sabbath has gone a little bit by the wayside

She said, then she said, do you know how to rest?

And I said, I actually don't know mom, and she, you know mom, so she's like, I know this diagnosis and all that I've been going through

It's kind of upset a lot of the schedule and everything, but you still need to do that

And she always says this to me, the journey is long ahead, so she's always like, you have to do this

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