Hi, friends. Welcome back from our summer Sabbath and welcome to another episode of that sounds fun, spiritually stronger.

I'm your host, Annie F. Downs. I'm so happy to be here with you today as we

are all back in the office. Today on the show, I get to talk with my friend Hannah Seymour on

her very birthday. This may be one of the episodes you want to watch on Spotify or on YouTube

because we shoot off confetti poppers in the first two minutes to celebrate her

birthday today and mine last week. As we just start to settle back into our rhythms coming off of

this break, we want to take a minute for a little like mid-year check-in. What do our spiritual

rhythms look like right now? What's shifted this summer? Is that okay? And how do we all look to the fall without

feeling completely overwhelmed by it? Hannah is a wife, a mom, an author, and a podcast host.

And when her book, Everyday Spiritual Habits, came out earlier this year. I knew we needed Hannah

to come on and help us do a little check-in in our rhythms. What I think you'll hear is not an opportunity to review your progress report,

but a reminder that it is not about performance, but about a God who just wants to be with you.

I think you're going to love this conversation.

I left it feeling so inspired and so happy.

Also, don't forget to head over to spiritually stronger.com where I'm going to

tell you more about our little open Bible challenge that you're going to hear about in this conversation

and hopefully see online. We'd love for you to be a part of it. Remember, it's never too late to

jump in at spiritually stronger.com and join that community. We have a ton of practice guides

for all these practices and then an incredibly interesting community of commenters there on each

of the blog post. So don't miss today's. This is a great time to join. You just go to spiritually

stronger.com and we're talking about the open Bible challenge that you are going to hear about

in today's show. So now here's my conversation with my friend, Hannah Seymour. Hannah Seymour, this is a very special podcast day. Let me tell you why. Today is your day of birth. Yes. Last Monday was my day of birth. Oh my gosh. We must start with confetti poppers.

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