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.

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Welcome back, I'm Rebecca.

And I'm Gabe.

And here we are January. Snow is falling outside. It's been quite a week and I know for everybody in our nation this last week has just been one of those that is making people go a lot deeper

into what they think who they believe what they been communicating I think it's just

been a moment of deep, deep reflection.

Yeah, and relationships, I think, a lot of conversations.

People are pressing in what I'm seeing and what I'm being challenged to do

is just talk to people on all sides of this political climate and where they

where they stand what they believe why they believe it listening leaning in

listening I just think civility is so desperately needed right now and so what does faithfulness look like to do that?

Yeah and listening to others to understand not necessarily to convince or argue but to try to

understand one another.

We're going to need so much more of that in the days ahead and we talk a lot about that

relationship power and our connect rhythm because relationships are so important and so we thought today we wanted to

take a deeper look into marriage and for some of you I know you may not be

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