I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing. You're listening to episode 389.

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.

I'm an author, a spiritual director, and an occasional workshop leader.

I live in North Carolina with my family, and through my work, I have helped thousands of

spiritually thoughtful people overcome decision fatigue so that

they can discern their next right thing in faith work and life. Many years ago, Barbara Brown

Taylor was invited to be a guest speaker, and when she asked the host, what she should talk

about, he simply responded, tell us what's saving your life. She writes about this in her book

and alter in the world.

And she says this.

It was such a good question that I have made a practice of asking others to answer it even as I continue to answer it myself.

Salvation is so much more than many of its proponents would have us believe.

In the Bible, human beings experience God's salvation when peace ends war,

when food follows famine, when health supplants sickness and freedom trumps oppression.

Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places

where their lives are at risk, regardless

of how they got there or whether they know God's name.

I think she makes an excellent point, which is why this is one of my favorite spiritual practices

and I engage in it quarterly. Listen in.

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