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. So grab your

copy, invite your friends and let's live in rhythm.

Hi I'm Gabe and welcome to the Rhythms for Life Podcast. We're so glad that you are spending

this series with us and this marriage and parenting series brought to you by RO is one of the great

joys of this summer. We are having Rebecca and I had such a great time. This last week we were with

several friends. People we don't often get to see but we were able to reconnect with and

some of the conversations we were having were about marriage and parenting and some of them had

listened to some of these episodes as you have been that are encouraging them and helping them

get some new insights from the different people that we're trying to bring to you. They're the

people that have helped Rebecca and I learned so much that we continue to learn from but they're

also the ones that have so much experience in these very specific categories in the last weeks

Jenny Allen's conversation about launching kids has helped many of you. We've heard about

the let's talk about sex episode where David Ashley will willing to really get into some topics

that you don't hear a lot of people talk about and that has been really helpful a lot of parents

coming back saying thank you for addressing the area of same sex attraction of talking about how

that can become a part of conversations with our kids and how do we address it and so our hope is

that as you listen to this summer series that this becomes a conversation starter for you that you

can start to have these conversations with your community with your friends. We don't need to be

isolated around these topics so many times we have found in marriages that many couples do feel

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