Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

And in this episode number 524, I'm welcoming to the show,

Aaron Lynum. This feeling of restlessness, it can be the effect of extreme fomo or fear of missing

out. Whether we see the next family over doing all these neat things or we are scanning

through Instagram and we suddenly have this, oh, we should do that, or I need to go get this done,

or we need to get ahead in this area. So we have these opportunities. And it's this fear of missing

out that truly leads us into this hustle and this hurry and out of God's peace.

But Jesus called us to an abundant life.

And I believe that's what Chambers is talking about when he says fully alive.

Erin is a master naturalist.

She's an author and a mom and she's the host of the Nat Theo podcast, which combines

science and theology. And today, she and I are talking about the theology of rest. And that may

seem counterintuitive when we're at the end of May, and it's just mayhem and Maysember and

everyone's losing their mind. My hope is this conversation will be a

reminder of how we are wired for rest, how God made us, how he intended us to live. And while it may

not be possible in certain seasons to integrate some of the things we talk about, we're headed into

summer. And perhaps you can consider some of what she we talk about were headed into summer and perhaps you can consider

some of what she shares in your family's plan this summer and maybe if you experience some

goodness into next school year we're going to talk about Shabbat and what does that mean how to

build in Salah pauses even if you only five minutes, and how Sabbath is meant to be a

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