Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy

Leader podcast. Great to be with you. The title of today's podcast is three unlikely habits

that will save your life. Three unlikely habits that will save your life. And this podcast is going to

introduce you to three words, three truths, three

habits that guide me in my relationship with Jesus each day. They ground me, actually, and I speak

about them actually and explain them in about six, seven, eight pages at the end of a chapter

in the emotionally healthy discipleship book, and it's at the end of a chapter in the emotionally healthy discipleship book,

and it's at the end of a chapter on Follow the Crucified, not the Americanized Jesus.

But actually, this section was so important to me, to Matt considered the heart of the book,

but it only got actually the end of a chapter.

They're just so

significant. And I wanted to write a whole book just about them, these three words, these three

habits, because they are so central for me. And I live them each day. I think of them each day.

They shape me. And the three words are relax, detach, and listen.

Relax, detach, and listen.

In fact, this morning, as every morning, I am before the Lord and in silence.

And I do these three things.

The first is relax.

And that comes from what does it mean to trust, to believe in Jesus, to trust in Jesus comes out of John 9, as you'll hear in just a few minutes. But trusting Jesus. And I ponder my day and I want to relax and fall into his arms and trust him to what lies before me. And the second habit, it's just in me for each day. The second is

detach, which really means to surrender. It's really, it's letting go. It's surrendering. And I let go of

everything in front of me for the day. And I seek to do that all through the day. And the third word is,

or third habit, is to listen, to listen to Jesus. Again,

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