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

You're listening to episode 192.

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 is 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.

Listen in.

A couple of episodes ago, I decided that I had nothing to say

and all I wanted to do was just to read a song for you and for me.

And while I figured that that would be a welcome episode,

what I didn't count on was that I would hear from so many of you.

By the way, many of you asked me to read the entire Bible.

I don't see that happening, but you know, never say never, right?

We'll see. But I guess what was surprising was, like I said,

just a sheer number of people that I heard from, that this was exactly what you

needed at exactly this time.

And who's to say that if I did that at a different week or three weeks earlier,

or three months from now, that I would get the exact same response,

but it is just to say that at that time, at this particular moment in history,

it really is a relief sometimes.

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