Hi, my name is Pete Gazzara. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader

podcast. And our theme today is slowing down for loving union, slowing down for loving union.

And what we're doing here is I am taking chapter by chapter of the emotionally healthy leader book and supplementing

what I trust many of you are doing. I know many leadership teams are doing around the world,

which is discussing it chapter by chapter among themselves. And this is meant to be really a supplemented

that and build on it for you or with you. And so in addition,

there's actually a discussion guide. I want to encourage you to download. It's free. And it goes

chapter by chapter. And you can go to our website at Emotionallyhealthy.org slash EH leader guide.

That's Emotionallyhealthy.org slash EH leader guide.

And it's just got a few questions.

It'll help you in your discussion, stay focused.

And so there are four inner life issues that are core and inform our outer life leadership.

And we've been going one by one through them.

We began with Face Your Shadow and the weight of being self-aware of how our past has impacted who we are today.

And looking at the shadow side of our gifts and what's often lying in our unconscious.

And then we've talked about leading out of your marriage or singleness as another core

inner life issue that informs everything we do in our outer life, which we'll talk about

in the weeks to come. But today, I want to talk to you about the third core, the third really central inner life issue that again informs everything we do and is

life or in death as we build long term. And it's called slowing down for loving union.

The word slowing down is obviously very key. And then loving union. So loving union, I just simply define

is allowing Jesus and his will to have full access in your life and you're in a posture of

attentiveness, openness, and surrender. Let me say that again. It's allowing Jesus and his will,

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