Hello, welcome back to the show. I am your host, Blake, and today I'm talking about one of my favorite subjects in this season, Rest.

This was actually supposed to be like a two-part series with my episode that came out with Becky Thompson, but this is actually the guest where I lost her episode and ended up recording and putting out the episode that's just me

talking about this season of pruning and what God is doing, which I'm really thankful

that it kind of went the way that it did because I don't know if I would have recorded that

episode if I hadn't lost this one. And Aaron was really kind and willing to come back on.

And here's my favorite part.

I really feel like the conversation was even better the second time than it was the first time.

Because in the month that has passed since Aaron and I originally recorded, I feel like I've been in a crash course on rest.

God has been working on me around this subject for a while,

but for the last month, he was like, babe, we've got to, we've got to get this. We've got to catch up a

little bit. And he's shown me a lot and taught me a lot. And so I felt like I had more to offer

in the conversation. I had more thoughts and experiences. And then Aaron is just

a powerhouse about this subject. So Aaron Lyon is my guest. She is a master naturalist,

which means she teaches people about nature and creation. And so she has this really incredible

perspective about rest coming at it from how God

has presented rest to us in creation. Because yes, he gave us his example and Jesus' example.

And there's tons of scripture about it. But he also was so good and kind that he showed us

in creation with animals, insects, plants,

the way that things hibernate and come back.

All of that is this welcoming into a rhythm of work and rest.

And so Aaron can just tell you the craziest, coolest facts about these things that you come into contact

with that you never knew. And it all leads back to this idea of Sabbath and that our best work

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