Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro, and I want to welcome you to the Emotionally Healthy Leader

Podcast. Our key word today is rhythms. This is part two of finding God's rhythms for your life.

Finding God's rhythm for your life, part two. And this word rhythm is such a core word for every

leader. It's actually a core word for every

disciple of Jesus, because without rhythm, we missed the whole purpose of our lives. Now,

articles have been written about the interruption epidemic and how interruptions impact our

brain and our ability to regulate our attention and focus. The more we check our

messages, email or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter, the more we feel the need to check them.

That's why technology can be so addicting. So rather than us controlling our attention, we squander

it and whatever kind of grabs us or captures our attention. But rhythms are a way to screen the

noise all around us, especially

in our high-tech world, and to get our brains strengthened in paying attention to God and what he's

doing in and all around us. So again, we don't miss God's purpose for our lives and our days.

So the rhythms I want to talk to you about in this session is about deliberately structuring our lives around some ancient treasures of spirituality that give us rhythms so we can live a powerful life anchored in Jesus.

Also a calm and a contented and a relaxed life that's bearing fruit for Jesus flowing out of us.

So I want to break it down into four areas. Daily, which I spoke

about in last week's podcast, in a daily office, weekly, in Sabbath, annually, and then on sabbatical

years, or every seven to ten years, having another idea of sabbatical. So it's really in four

areas. And let me just say as I begin this, that as I think about rhythms in my own life,

I recognize that I am fragile. Without rhythms, for me, and when I get off of my rhythms,

I get into a very bad place. I can't mess around with my rhythms,

actually, as a leader, because I've got some serious brokenness in me. I get very dangerous.

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