Okay, quick check, friend.

Are you currently hunched over your phone or sitting up straight?

You see, posture matters in the holiday season and we're going to talk about it today.

I'm Ruth Jo Simons and my co-host, E. Steips and I are so grateful to be kicking up a brand new season today on

the podcast. We're two days away from December. How are you doing? Really? It's easy to get

overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of the season, but Eve and I are determined to encourage

each other and hopefully you as well to pause and think about how to make room for Christ in our everyday lives this year.

Grab a cup of coffee, lace up your tennis shoes if you're going on a walk, find your headphones

wherever, however you're listening today. We're so glad you're here, so let's get started.

Okay, so you already talked about it, but we are tackling heart posture today. And I'm actually

going to start by reading a quote from your devotional, Emmanuel. So listen to the wisdom of your words.

Here's the quote. Poster determines our approach and the trajectory of any journey.

It's the unseen rudder that directs the way we welcome any circumstance, any season.

You know, that's so good, Eve.

Just kidding.

But honestly, before we got on just now, I was trying to describe how much posture matters, right? Yeah. In our everyday lives, whether we've got our shoulders scrunched up and we're like stressed out or we're sitting up straight or we're hunched over. But the posture of the heart matters. And then you were like, actually, I pulled a quote where you actually wrote about this. Talk about it. And so, yeah, but it's the unseen rhetoric. It really,

our posture determines how we're going to respond, what our steps are and where we're going

to go and how we're going to do any next step because our posture will either affect whether

we're operating out of super weariness or we're like, hey, I prepared for this. I've trained for this.

I'm ready. And so that's kind of why we're talking about heart posture, right?

Yeah. Well, and it will change how we receive things that happen in this season too, right?

Totally. This season is all about, there's a lot on the calendar, actually, but then how many pivots will you have to make

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