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

episode 306. I'm an author, a spiritual director, and an occasional

workshop leader. I live in the Piedmont of North Carolina with my family,

and through my work I've helped thousands of spiritually thoughtful people overcome

decision fatigue, so that they can discern their next right thing in faith, in work, and in life.

Today, I need to slow down for just a few minutes to take a breath, to take a beat here

in the middle of December, and so I want to offer you a four minute

and 38 second meditation for being okay. It's from one of the Advent collections in the

Quiet Collection app called

Compassion. It's track 8 named simply OK. As you listen, if it seems the music

was written just for these words, it's because it was.

Caleb Peevy sat down at his piano,

listen to my voice, and wrote music in real time.

It's an unbelievable gift, and he did that for every

track in all of the Advent collections. What you're about to hear is one of the

simpler ones, like I said just four and a half minutes long, but it's one I personally

return to over and over again.

Listen in. The The Is there any place I can go to avoid your spirit to be out of your sight?

If I climb to the sky, you're there.

If I go underground, you're there.

If I flew on morning's wings

to the far western horizon. You'd find me in a minute. You're

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