I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing.

You're listening to Episode 387.

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 distracting hum of

entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing. I'm an author of spiritual

director and an occasional workshop leader. I live in 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 work and life. Today, I want to share a bit more personally about my own journey

over the last six weeks. As always, my only hope in sharing with you my own inner processing

is that perhaps it will help you begin to make sense of your own. Listen in.

If you have journeyed with me through the Lent Collection during the season of Lent,

I want to say thank you for trusting me in your ears every day.

Whether you listened for the entire six weeks or joined us recently, I hope the contemplative reflections, scripture, music, and questions have been for you a kind companion as we

have walked from winter into springtime, from an awareness of our vulnerability, into the hope of a new resurrection

life. Back in February, I really contemplated how I personally wanted to engage spiritually

during the Lenton season, and something kept repeatedly coming up for me. It wasn't something

tangible to give up exactly. Sometimes people do that.

And I wasn't sure what category to put this thing in that kept coming up, but I decided to

remain open to what spirit might be up to in my right now life. As you might already know,

I tend to take the entire month of January every year to reflect on the year before

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