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 welcome back I'm Rebecca.

I'm Gabe and we made it through the ice age. We did polar vortex. I mean kind of, I mean still

this morning it's amazing in Nashville how there's still ice and trying to get Kate on the bus

this morning. This was their first day back. We happened to live on a hill and part of that's

shaded and still very very icy. Yeah so it's still trepidation trying to get to the bus that was

a little bit of a disaster. I had to turn around and come back home and try to help it was a

team effort from the family but the kids made it to school. They did and that is celebration right

there. That's caused for celebration. Should all be melted now but we are so glad today to be

talking about something that affects all of us. It's it's journeying together with your spouse

in the midst of pain in the midst of trying to find purpose, physical pain, adopting a child and

you're going to hear this amazing story of a couple that's walked through a lot of pain from

Lyme's disease to a child with special needs and that creates a lot of stress. It creates a lot

of anxiety. It creates a lot of the things that the rhythms are designed to help you process

and walk through and today you're going to be I think encouraged to hear somebody share with

you the depths of their pain but also the way God's using them in that pain to help others.

Yes Lindsey Wheeler is a dear friend we've known for years. We've watched them journey this

they're the real deal. We can't wait for you to hear what she has to say. I know it's going to be

a comfort to you and the way it was for us while we talk to her. It's going to be great and it

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