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 help.

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 Gabe, and welcome to our Building Resilience Summer

series. We're continuing that's presented by MetaShare, the affordable biblical alternative

to health insurance, and it's July. I know. I hope everybody enjoyed celebrating July 4th

yesterday. Yes. I mean, it's such a great time. We had friends over, enjoyed just

the fun of hamburgers and hot dogs, and I don't really eat hot dogs anymore, but I think

on July 4th, it's... Well, it's just like embedded, right? You grew up on that. I mean,

I remember all of our July 4th, once we started dating, we would go to your family's house on

July 4th, and your parents would always host, and it was always the same thing. It was so much

desserts to... Homemade ice cream. Yes. My mom and my granny would make banana homemade ice cream,

and I can't quite make it the way that they did, just never quite as good. And they did

old school, like the big thing with all the salt and the grind. Yeah, it looked really... They didn't

take the shortcut. No, no. I mean, now you've got... You've got Kitchenate attachments now,

no, they sat there for three hours, monitoring the ice cream churn. Your parents would work like

12 hours for that cookout. I know, it's good though, but, but anyway, it's beside the point,

I think we just returned from a trip. Yes. Which was lifetime epic trip for our family. Well,

I kind of hope never do it again. It was fun, but... We were like, that was great. It's a lot of work.

And we're good. But, but it was great. We had the family. We got to go to Italy and enjoy Rome and

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