You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan is joined by his wife, Becky Allender, to continue our series on Psalm 131.

Dan and Becky reflect on how the psalmist is inviting us to calm and quiet our hearts,

our minds, and our bodies so that we can

navigate the loss and chaos around us in a new way.

As we've been considering what it means to enter into rest, particularly after seasons of high level of exhaustion and extremity, we've come to Psalm 131 as really a paradigm for thinking about what it means to no rest.

And to remind you, the Psalm says,

Lord, my heart is not proud. My eyes are not haughty. I don't concern myself with matters too great or awesome for me. But I have stilled and quieted myself, just as a small child is quiet

with its mother. Yes, a small child is my soul within me.

O Israel, put your hope in the Lord now and always. And the NIV translates that category of

small child as my soul is like a wean child.

And another translation says,

I know how to still and quiet my soul like a wean child.

And so to talk about what all that means,

I've asked Becky to join us.

Thanks, Beck, for talking about what a mother experiences in the context of having a wean child.

But first, let's just talk about what it means to calm and quiet.

As Trumper made reference in the very first podcast of this series, that you have two categories that are not just an intensification,

but actually a deepening, almost a further expansion of the reality of what that first word

is speaking about. And the implication is we need to calm ourselves and quiet ourselves, and that that is

something we actually are given the ability to do by our God. And our failure to not do so

actually creates immense complications. So as you think about calming, quieting, what goes through your mind, my love?

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