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

You're listening to episode 262.

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

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

Today's episode is brought to you by a brand new book out today.

Through warm and woody prayers that acknowledge the struggles of our shared humanity, beloved

authors Kate Boller and Jessica Richie have written a book of blessings called The Lives

We Actually Have, 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days.

It releases on this very day, February 14, 2023, and you can find out more at kateboller.com.

We don't need to wait for perfect lives when we can bless the lives we actually have.

Kate offered to write a blessing just for us in the middle of our right now messy, beautiful

boring, terrifying, wonderful lives.

So here's Kate with a blessing for who you might become.

Oh, hello.

Here's a blessing for who you might become, because hey, we never know.

Thank God I'm haunted by the shadows of the old me.

The one who's tried every promised elixir, every five-step plan, every guru's solution

to what ails me.

But nothing seems to stick.

I'm the same me with the same problems and the same quiet hopes.

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