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. Welcome back, I'm Rebecca. I'm Gabe and

it's fun to be at this stage of May. We've got kind of a big moment happening in our family that

I'm sure is happening in so many of your families or it's happened already and that is

have a son graduating from high school again. It's crazy. We've been a little bit emotional

but it's holding the attention of excitement and a little bit like no it's coming too fast.

I know we're so proud of Pierce that our 18 year old son graduating and just an amazing light

so much joy he brings to our family musician, songwriter, godly man. It's just fun to celebrate

seeing him get ready to launch and head to college but we're going through some of those emotions

because Kate graduated last year but Kate's with us like he's not leaving the nest. Pierce is the

first for us that we'll leave and that's like a new thing for us to walk her. Yeah, absolutely.

I mean like you said it's just so much to celebrate your family's coming in and that's also

something that we're very excited about seeing your parents. I know for the first time in 18 months.

Yeah, it's been a lot of season. My mom's dealt with a fight against cancer and so this will be

our first time where I've gotten to see her a couple times, distanced near her home but I haven't

been able to we haven't been able to as a family be together again so we're excited about that.

So yeah, big week and we're excited for all the all the festivities of being in connection and

being with family. It's going to be great. Yeah, so we know with that shift for us we're sure

that may hold that for a lot of you as listeners who have school wrapping up maybe you're in the

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