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.

Hey friends, welcome back to the podcast. I'm Rebecca. And I'm Gabe. And we are back together

kicking off today. I know, I've missed you the last couple episodes. I know. Well, you were with

me in the interviews, but I held my own in the intro. I miss these moments, but yeah,

it's great to be in a new season and so many incredible conversations happening in the weeks ahead.

And we're excited about today. We're talking friendship, and I thought it might be good

to just talk about what scripture says about friendship. First Thessalonians 5-11 says,

therefore, encourage one another and build each other up. Just as in fact you are doing.

What does that mean, Gabe, to you to build one another up? Well, it takes intention, and I think

this is what we'll talk about today in friendship. It doesn't just happen, and we're kind of in a

culture, a society, you know, raising kids, and you're trying to teach them about friendship,

and the build each other up suggests that this is a plan. This takes time. It takes energy. It takes

resource. It doesn't just happen. And that's what I think is such an important concept for us to

all take away from the conversation today on friendship. Yeah, we talk about how, you know, friendship

doesn't just happen. And with building, you know, you've got plans. You've got a strategy. You've

got roles, and there's like a linear thing that has to happen to build something. And I think

sometimes friendship have been hard when we just take them too casually. Instead of going, this

is someone that I admire, I respect, I feel like I can be myself around them. I feel like there's

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