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

You're listening to episode 22.

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 the sometimes delightful but also distracting

hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing.

Today's question, what's saving your life right now?

It's a simple direct question.

It's also deeply thought-provoking.

I'll share my list with you today.

Listen in.

In her memoir, Leaving Church, author Barbara Brown Taylor tells the story of being invited

to speak at a church, and the topic she was invited to speak about was an invitation

with a simple question.

Tell us what's saving your life right now.

Because she's the one who tells the story and writes about it, most people credit Barbara

Brown Taylor with the question.

But when asked, she credits John Claypool, who was once about his pastor, and later became

an Episcopal priest from what I can tell from a little internet research.

But regardless of where the question originates from, so many of us have carried this question

forward.

This is true of the best questions, and asking yourself or someone else, what's saving

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