Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life Podcast where each week we talk about four rhythms

that help you reduce stress and anxiety and take charge of your emotional health. Rest,

restore, connect, create. These ideas come from Rebecca's best-selling book,

Rhythms of Renewal, trading stress and anxiety for a life of peace and purpose. So grab your

copy, invite your friends and let's live in rhythm. Welcome back I'm Rebecca. And I'm Gabe.

Gabe's here on the intro. I know. I know. It's good to have you. It's great to always be here

with you Rebecca and with this entire crew listening in on rhythms for life. We love you guys

and I think as we come into spring Rebecca and I was just talking this morning you know a lot of

people are feeling more tension than ever. We've come through a couple of years of uncertainty.

I think the war going on right now people are watching it. There's not much you can do about it

and I think that's one of the challenging things is we get anxiety when we don't have control.

And you don't have control and so it's a great opportunity to start to practice some of the things

we're talking about that put our trust somewhere outside of ourselves. Yeah absolutely. I had a

long conversation this week with several friends about what personally you know can we do and

are there people we know like by association that we can help but in the end it really is choosing

to trust that those on the ground the boots on the ground we can support and we can kind of like

look at where we're giving resource and pray. I mean honestly there's not a whole lot you can do

with that level of like proximity is just so far away. And that's the wild thing about our world

today. If you just go over the last thousands of years of how life worked like you would never even

know this was happening in a world that wasn't globalized modern technology news. And you still

had to live your life every day. You still had to contribute to your community to the people around

you. And I think one of the challenges one of our good friends John Tyson we were chatting yesterday

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