Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life Podcast.

I'm Rebecca Lyons.

I'm Rebecca Lyons and I'm Gabe Lyons and Rebecca I get the privilege right now of holding for the first time in my hands your new book

Rhythms of renewal trading stress and anxiety for a life of peace and purpose.

How does it feel? It's awesome. It actually does feel awesome in my hands.

It's pretty. It is very pretty but when I open it up for all the guys out there the cool thing that you

did in this design is when you take off that flap jacket it's actually this

somewhat masculine looking book that I can have sitting out or thinking about you game yeah well all your friends and my

friend it worked but it's an exciting moment as an author when that book shows up

and you finally get to touch it because you've been working on this writing over the last year and a

half right but living it for so much longer how are you feeling about I'm

feeling good I love it it's it is it's like this tangible expression of a labor of love as you know and anyone who has gone

through this publishing process it feels like you've birth the baby a book baby and

so yeah we are on number three of our book babies.

And so today's episode in the book, you described four different rhythms that we need to

rest, restore, connect, but today we're talking about.

Create, all about Create create which is so fun. I really loved

this section of this book the last rhythm it's the culmination really as you keep

starting with rest restore you build on build on and then create is this

vocational health it's about your passions your purpose your talents it's where

your calling begins to emerge where those talents and those burdens collide and I tell

some funny stories in there where we did home movies with the kids when they were little

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