Well, welcome back to the prayers of rest podcast.

We are on break in between our regular prayer seasons.

And if you missed last week, we're doing something a little bit different this week,

taking some reader questions.

I explain why we're doing this and share a little bit more in

the previous week. So if you missed it, you can go back and listen to that. But,

Indra, we're back today with more rapid fire questions. Yes, we are. I'm excited. I mean,

we had so much fun. We did. This is so fun. I will try to keep my answers

short. But as we saw last week, that doesn't always work out. So that's okay. All good things.

It'll be good. All right. So what do we have first? Okay. First off, we have a question from Lynn C. She says the biggest

struggle to spiritual growth for me is consistency. I feel like for every two steps forward, I go back

three. Busy work schedule, an ailing parent, family trip, etc. I get torn away and then I find

myself spiritually dry and find it

hard to dig back in. What should I do? Yeah, Lynn, I get this and I'm pretty sure everyone

listening to this podcast will be able to relate to say, I've been there too. And so part of it,

I think, is, man, I think of the Psalm

where scripture says, God knows we are but dust. He knows our limitations. He knows what we are

capable of on our own. So I think part of it is receiving the love of God, receiving God's

grace in our failures. I think part of it too is being okay with different seasons of life

looking differently. And so instead of measuring your 40-year-old self to your 25-year-old self, or, you know, instead of

comparing different seasons of saying, oh, I used to be able to do so much then and now I can't,

it's looking for right now in this season, how is God

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