Small Habits for Spiritual Change: A Reflection on Our Conversation With Ashley Hales

The Strong Women Podcast

Sarah Stonestreet

Christianity, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

2.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How can we use our habits to bring about change in our lives? Sarah and Erin discuss how the decisions we make shape our character and how we can implement habits to make a difference in our sphere of influence. As we head into the new year, we encourage you to think about how you can use little decisions to create spiritual change.

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Ashley Hales Website

Finding Holy Podcast with Ashley Hales

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Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women.
0:10.7	I'm Erin Kunkel.
0:11.8	And I'm Sarah Stone Street. We're so glad you're here.
0:19.2	Welcome back to the Strong Women podcast.
0:21.6	Today, Sarah and I are reflecting on our conversation with Ashley Hale.
0:26.7	We loved our conversation with Ashley, and we loved Ashley's book, A Spacious Life, Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Lim limits. I just love the title. I love the
0:41.4	subtitle, trading hustle and hurry for the goodness of limits. So Sarah, we had more questions we
0:50.3	wanted to talk to Ashley about, and we'll probably end up having her back on, I anticipate
0:55.7	that. So thinking about our conversation in the book, the topic of habits really stuck out to both
1:04.8	of us, and thinking about trading one thing for another, a lot of times when we talk about habits that can instill right
1:15.5	away guilt in me and many others of, oh yeah, I wanted to start this one habit. I never did do
1:22.3	that or I tried to start this habit. And when we think about habits, we really do all have habits in our lives.
1:30.7	We do habitual things every day, a lot of times without even thinking about it.
1:36.7	And so this book is encouraging us to think about the habits of our lives that include so much hurry and embracing a different
1:50.4	view of life and our limits and all of those things. You go first. Tell us some of your thoughts.
1:57.3	Her book just sparked so many thoughts in both of us, and it just had my mind going a million
2:02.9	different directions.
2:04.1	She talks specifically about is how limits are actually a blessing, how limits actually invite
2:10.7	us into a deeper relationship with others around us, but also with God.
2:15.7	It's like at one point in the book, she calls it a doorway to a deeper
2:20.1	relationship with him. So then when she's talking about habits, she's talking about some habits
2:26.3	to think about and develop that help us live in those limits instead of trying to hurry and hustle over them or through them.
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