Hey friends, welcome to 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.

I'm Rebecca, and I'm Gabe, and today I cannot wait for you to meet one of Rebecca and I's great friends banning Leepshire and so I just want to dedicate this whole time to us listening to our conversation about the things he's thinking about right now how how he leads, and all the ways that we can learn how to be

more faithful in our journey. Let's listen to now.

Hey Banning, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for having me. It's good to be with you guys.

Yeah, man, it's so fun.

I wish you were sitting here with us because we just love hanging out with you and have gotten

to know you so well over the years and we're excited for our audience

to just get to know you better and especially around the specific

conversation we want to have today around this create rhythm and what it looks

like to fulfill our calling but man first I just want to hear how has this season been for you

you live in California or northern California Sacramento area and man you guys have been on

lockdown what has that been like for you?

Yeah, it's a weird conversation to have right now because it's been really great and it's hard to say that because the world's on fire and so many people and in people in our church or people

that were hurting for have lost jobs and are trying to figure out the economic

and or if you know dealt with sickness or whatever else it is For me though who you know just can work from

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