Hi friends and welcome to a quick episode of a Be Still and Be Love podcast.

I am in my car. I am recording this podcast in my car because I'm going to take a break with

you to pull back and center myself in God's love.

It's the middle of the day and things can get kind of

swirly.

And the best way for us to give the enemy a swirly is to pull back from our striving,

our performance, whatever we do to compensate for whatever might be coming against us or whatever just might

be trying to steal our joy and our greatest joy is found in him he is is our treasure. So let's get violent and take a few moments to

sit, to lay down, and find our identity again.

Put our feet firmly in kingdom territory.

So find yourself now in a comfortable position, whatever that is, seated, child's pose, laying on your back.

And I want you to go ahead and squeeze every muscle like just squeeze

tense your fist tense everything you have just tense it tense it

squeeze it squeeze it inhale and then exhale

and let it relax.

Let's do that again.

Squee, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, just squeeze every muscle that you can find.

Inhale, then exhale and relax.

Notice the difference.

Now begin to breathe with a breath that is a longer inhalation that what your work day would provide.

And then exhale with even longer exhale. Can you see if you can make your exhale longer than your inhale? Father, we invite you here.

Prince of Peace, come.

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