Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller.

On today's episode, Patrick and I are going to talk about a topic that is really interesting

us lately and that is habits. How do you develop good habits? How do you break bad habits? What are the

implications of keeping habits around that you'd rather get rid of? How do habits form our

character and the kind of people that we become?

And I think a lot of this has come out of our personal reading, a book called Atomic Habits

by a guy named James Clear. There's a book called Tiny Habits, another one the power of a habit.

So there's a lot of literature that's been around the last several years on it.

And so let's start with this, Patrick, are there some habits that you would like to either establish, like good

habits, or maybe some bad habits you'd like to break?

I've definitely got both.

Bad habits that I want to break.

I, now I feel like I'm going to step on your toes when I say this but I have a sweet

eating problem and so I would love to stop eating sweets at night.

Whatever sweet eating problem you have looks small compared to my issues? I'm confident that's the truth.

That has to be true. So what do you do? You eat them while you watch Netflix or

the Bachelor or what? Well if I make a pan of brownies at night, I will eat probably a third of them.

Maybe half. You never know how far I'm going to go.

I've been known to drive out to Shnooks to buy Guey Butter.

I get the kids down and I'm in the car. I'm like where were you? I don't know. I was in the garage doing something. I'm trying to hide it. You're duplicitous about your bad habits. Oh, she knows. She knows when I disappear after the kids go down. She

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