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

You're listening to episode 241.

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.

Before we get started, I wanted to highlight a book that explores daily life

through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and the habits that form us.

It's called Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren.

I've mentioned it here before.

It's a book we can return to again and again to be greatly encouraged

to find God in our ordinary moments, making our morning coffee,

brushing our teeth, losing our keys.

In liturgy of the ordinary, Tish writes,

Alfred Hitchcock said movies are life with the dull bits cut out.

Car chases and first kisses,

interesting plot lines and good conversations.

We don't want to watch our lead character going on a walk,

stuck in traffic or brushing his teeth.

At least not for long, and not without a good soundtrack.

We tend to want a Christian life with the dull bits cut out.

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