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

You're listening to episode 195.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but it's 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 the 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.

It's a Friday in September, and I find myself in a room with singing quakers and stained

glass, and the piano rich Mullens played at his baccalaureate.

I'll back up.

I didn't find myself here. I came here on purpose on an airplane.

It's the apprentice gathering at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, a school where I serve

as one of the residency lecturers for the master's program in Christian spiritual formation

and leadership.

Friends University is also the school where the late singer, songwriter, and Ragamuffin

Rich Mullens attended and graduated from with a degree in music education in 1995, just

two short years before he died.

The stage where he wants sang is right in front of me now.

I don't live in Wichita, although I'm starting to feel as though I kind of do as I travel

here a lot.

But two years ago I agreed to speak at this gathering, and then COVID happened, and the

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