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. Hey friends, Rebecca here. I'm so excited

about today's podcast. I'd like to continue where I started last week when I shared you a little

tiny encouragement from Corinthians because that's where I'm at right now. I'm in second Corinthians

one and I want to begin where we picked up last week. Last week we talked about receiving comfort

so that you can give comfort and the next little portion here is verse 8. We think you ought to

know dear brothers and sisters about the trouble we went through in Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed

beyond our ability to endure and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die

but as a result we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God who raises the dead

and he did rescue us from mortal danger and he will rescue us again. We place our confidence in him

and he will continue to rescue us and you are helping us by praying for us. Then many people give

thanks because God has graciously answered so many prayers for our safety. This is so powerful to

me because last week I was sharing how Gabe's mom, so my mother in love passed away January 22nd

and how I was comforted and I began to comfort you guys on Instagram and in Facebook, social media

through some questions you had about death. And then what I read next because I'm just trying to

stay in the word every day because it is the source is that this crushing right we were crushed

and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure and we thought we would never live through it. I mean

that's what we call despair but instead it's saying but in fact we expected to die but as a result

okay so here's the thing if you guys are walking through something really hard right now

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