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

You're listening to episode 238.

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.

In his book The Jesus Way, Eugene Peterson wrote these words,

We stop whether by choice or through circumstance, so that we can be alert and attentive and

receptive to what God is doing in and for us, in and for others on the way.

We wait for our souls to catch up with our bodies.

This was the very first quote I shared on the podcast in episode one, become a soul minimalist.

At the time in 2017, there weren't a lot of podcasts on my radar that were short, 10, 15 minutes,

and that weren't an interview style.

I wanted to create a show that was accessible to listen to on the go, not a huge time commitment

and didn't involve other people, at least none at first.

Looking back, I love that this was the inaugural quote, because it still rings so true for

me.

In our fast moving world, we're often needing to wait for our souls to catch up with our

bodies, but we don't often know how.

In the last five years, my soul sure has had some catching up to do.

In this five year, state of the podcast anniversary episode, I'm glad to look back at our beginnings

and share the importance of marking milestones.

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