Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast.

What if the reason we feel so drained isn't because we're doing too much, but because we're never still?

In this episode of Staff Talks, Francis reflects on the lost discipline of waiting on God and how silence, not striving,

is where our strength is renewed.

So last night I spoke at Stanford to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Great group of people.

I always have a good time there.

But I asked the question,

you know, I don't know how people in the room,

100-something, probably around there.

I said, hey, just be honest,

how many of you are planning on tomorrow morning before you start your day

you're going to spend at least half an hour in the word in prayer just you and god just by a show

of hands maybe six six to eight, you know, hands that are kind of halfway like this.

And I knew pretty much all of them.

And it kind of shocked me.

It really surprised me because I thought thought I grew up in a time

where that was just the norm that was the discipline that's what I was taught in

my youth group like you just get up and and that's just been my process of course I've missed days but it's pretty much the staple of my life

for over 40 years um and so I I don't know it just took me back a little bit like wow they really even as I was explaining like how many of you're planning on this you just saw people's faces like no you know like just the moment I said woke wake up early they're just like you know this look like I get it. Okay, these are the athletes at Stanford.

So they're probably the most busy because you have the academic Stanford environment,

but on top of that, to be a collegiate athlete aspiring for the big leagues, it's like,'s a that's a busy person these are busy people

yet they made time to come and they're there every week um so applaud them for that but it just surprised

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