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.

Welcome back I'm Rebecca. And I'm Gabe and we are so glad you're joining us for another

great episode in our CES series brought to you by AIM and it's great to be back with you guys

in September. Rebecca, this has been a fun last week anytime you put a book out into the world.

It's pretty fun to see the response and it's been pretty overwhelming.

Yes. Thank you guys. Thanks for all your comments, your posts, your shares, your likes,

just all the things you did to grab this devotional. It's my first one and it was really fun to

get it out there and it is a beautiful cover and you guys are posting all these so fun pictures

of it. So thank you and we are so excited to do this as a community. We're going to go through 52

days together. Yeah, it's a surrendered yes, 52 devotionals to let go and live free and

really what we want to do is make this fall a fall where we all have this opportunity to really

go deeper into this message of surrender and what does it mean to let go of some things in a

environment where you don't have control anyway. So why are we trying to hold on so much like

let's let go and experience the freedom that God wants to have for us and in just a few moments

we're getting to a great conversation with John Mark Comer about some of these ideas and how

the world is changing so quickly and letting go and living free is the only way to do this.

Right. Absolutely. It's a posture. It's a posture of submission. It's a surrender. God, you know

what I can't see. Can I trust you? And that's really the leading question of this devotional

journey is, do you trust me? God leans into his daughters and his sons and says, do you trust me?

Do you trust the plans and purposes I have for you are good, even if they're scary and unknown and

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