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And now here's Jenny.

Hey guys, we are back after three months off this summer.

Chloe and I both took some time off

and our team at If Gathering took some time as well.

And it was truly life changing. I was crawling into the month of June pretty exhausted and have

been doing this a while, ten years and really I think hit a point where there was just a lot going on in our family.

There was a lot going on in the world.

There was a lot going on at work and just needed to not feel the pressure and adrenaline have all of that all the time.

And so certainly I got a lot of time with my family and I got a lot of time to just have fun and relax and and it was restorative in its own way just to turn off the part of my brain that is always trying to solve problems and take care of the people in my life that I want to take care of,

including all of you, that I care about deeply.

And so that rest, what it did to me, was real.

It was something that actually changed things in me

because it gave me perspective my body restored I feel different than I did before it's

incredible I always say rest is a real thing. It's not a feeling, it's not something that is make-believe or mythical.

It's actually something that happens to you and when you choose it and when you do it, God restores us and so I I feel like it was a step of obedience for me

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