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. Welcome back, I'm Rebecca.

And I'm Gabe, and we are so glad you're with us now. I mean coming off of Easter weekend

It was a little different than most Easter weekends, but I think we made the most of it. We did

This is week five for a lot of you at home and we are still smiling because

Jesus has risen and I think that's the hope that we carry you know for people of faith and

I think a lot of people in this last week are even exploring faith that might just be coming back to it or are curious

about it again and I'm so encouraged by that because we have to look outside of

ourselves in the season in particular for the hope and the silver lining and I think you can't live in the springtime, right, anywhere, and see things blooming and flowers coming out and signs of life everywhere in his creation to remind us that God is in control and we can trust him.

Yeah and I think you know when you get in a moment like this where the whole globe has to go home I mean that's what just happened.

We were all sent home and if we can't take the time right now to focus on what bigger is happening around us what really matters what's most important where am I putting my trust because let's be honest a lot of us

get caught up and putting our trust in being busy and work and making money and all

those things have really stopped yeah we have silence and we're able to, I think the

path has been cleared in some ways of all that mental distraction to get quiet to

reflect, ask God to reveal like what are the things you want to activate and move in our lives right now and I know for us it's been

The things that I actually care the most about which is connection in our home

Connection with our extended family connection with our extended family, connection with our friends.

You and I started doing this double dates at night with friends around the country, you know, a double

date on Zoom after the kids go down. But just pursuing relationship,

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