Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life podcast, where each week we talk about rhythms for

building resilience, so you can take charge of your mental, spiritual, and relational health.

These ideas come from Rebecca's best-selling book, Building a Resilient Life,

How Adversity Awakened Strength, Hope, and Meaning. So grab your copy, invite your friends,

and let's build resilience together.

Welcome back, I'm Rebecca, and I'm so excited to be with you guys again. I'm going solo on this

intro today. Gabe is traveling, but I'm just excited for this time of this season. We're in

late October, and many of you have been going pretty strong since fall began. I don't know about

what that looks like for specifically each of you, but I feel it. I feel it about eight weeks

into fall. It's always kind of like starting with such great intention, and then feeling the

weariness as I continue to go back to these sacred rhythms, and so sometimes I'm just reminded of

how vital it is to move my body, to be kind, and gracious to myself, but also to the people

around me when I feel a little extra level of stress. And then just paying attention to my sleep,

and when I'm going to bed at night. And so I don't know if there's anyone out there today that

just feels weary at this juncture in the middle of this season. Maybe you started strong,

and you had all the ambition and anticipation in August. I just want to encourage you that the

Lord has deposits for you today, that he wants to revive your heart and refresh you and renew you

in ways that maybe you weren't expecting. And so just go out on a walk if you can, October,

still a pretty month, and there might still be hopefully some crunchy leaves underfoot,

or just get a moment with him, quiet, and just say, Lord, what is it that you want me to know?

And will you remind me how you see me? And then just sit with that, sit with that,

and let the Holy Spirit prompt just a word or a thought or a phrase. I think he wants you to not

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