I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing.

You're listening to episode 185.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but also about making a life.

If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes

away from the constant stream of information and sometimes delightful, but also distracting

hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for a thoughtful story, a little prayer,

and a simple next right step.

If you're listening in real time, I'll be taking the next few weeks off and we'll come

back just in time to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the podcast.

I still remember where I was sitting in our public library when I submitted the first

episodes to iTunes back in August of 2017.

But we'll talk about that in our next episode.

For now, if you are in a season of decision fatigue because of work, church, schooling,

parenting, or just life circumstances in general, this episode is for you.

Listen in.

I read a line the other day that I keep thinking about.

It's from Wendell Berry's novel, Hannah Kulter, that I have been quoting a lot from lately.

Here's the line.

Kulter living as if they think they're in a movie.

They're all looking in one direction toward a better place and what they see is no thicker

than a screen.

What they see is no thicker than a screen.

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