Do you spend relaxation time at the end of the day with Facebook or Instagram?

Dr. Shona Murray says your mind actually isn't relaxing.

I think if you watch the brain circuits at that time when you're interacting with a screen, you'd be shocked at the speed of the traffic in your brain.

Today, she'll tell you how to truly find rest.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest.

For January 31st, 2018.

Thank you. Well, anybody listening today who needs some refreshing?

Yeah, like which hour of the day, right?

We all do.

And some of us really, really needed at this season.

And that's why I'm so excited about this book that Shona and David Murray have written called Refresh. And the subtitle drew me into it right away,

Embracing a Grace-paced Life in a World of Endless Demands. And I'm wrestling with some of these

things in a new way in this season of my life. Seasons change. And now that I'm

an old married woman, having been married a couple of years now, I'm having to make different

adjustments in terms of my priorities and my daily habits. And as Robert and I navigate together,

the rhythm of life and how to live this grace-paced life. So we don't leave each other, you know,

winded and discouraged and overwhelmed. And so I was really eager, David and Shona, to read this

book and so thankful you wrote it. It deals with the issue of depression, but I think any woman

in any season of life, whether she's experiencing depression or not,

whether she's married or single or teenager, younger, older, can be really benefited by a lot of the practical wisdom that you share here out of your own journey for how to maintain a grace-paced

life when everything is coming at you all the time, making you feel hurried and hurried and

frantic and frazzled. And I know nobody else listening ever struggles with that, but there I just

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