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. And I'm Gabe.

We're enjoying July. I hope you guys are as well. We had an incredible July 4th celebration.

Yes. I know that was like 10 days ago. Which did not include thankfully blowing up our yard.

But it almost did. We had one of those moments where we were lighting off. In Tennessee, you know,

there's not a lot of restrictions. You can shoot off these things called mortars that have this little

kind of shoot that you put them down in. And well, one of those tipped over and went towards where

all the little kids and all the parents and all the families were kind of enjoying looking up

at the sky and all of a sudden this one just started shooting. And fortunately, it missed a

couple of guys that were with me doing this and landed in the yard and put like a two-foot burned

hole in the yard. Yeah, exactly. So I had to hit somebody that could have been really bad. I'm sure

all of you have those kinds of experiences and stories to talk about, but that made it more exciting.

I guess. I mean, you're not dealing with professionals when you decide to do your own fireworks show.

No, not a fire attack. So it's definitely like proceed at your own risk.

Yeah. But it was really fun because just watching them right in front of you over your head,

I mean, I did love that. Yeah, the little kids, of course, crying. And I remember when I was four,

brought by these memories we went in Virginia with my parents to the city stadium, which is where

they did football games for like every high school. Well, anyway, one night,

fireworks show. And I just remember screaming crying. I was so scared as the fireworks went off,

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