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Welcome to the Ransomed Heart Podcast. this is Craig McConnell and I'm joined again today by my two colleagues, friends, buddies, criminals, Alex Burton to my left, to my right, Brad Beck. So, gosh, it's summertime. Days or long, I am, I'm just loving this.

It's a little too hot for me personally right now, but oh my gosh, I just love the warm mornings,

sun early, the sun staying up later and I mean there's vacations we've got planned and you

that summer just seems so full of life. What Brad, Alex, and I'll chime in as well, what do you need this summer?

There's a difference between activity and what you're doing, what your plans are.

What is your heart, what is your soul, what do you, what are you hoping for this summer?

Well, I'm hoping for it. for this is

I'm hoping for a change of pace praying for one when a down shift a bit

we do have some vacation but this is an interesting summer in that I only really have kind of one trip planned to Texas to see some friends and to go to a wedding. It's going to be pretty low key and it's going to be long on

relaxation and short on activity. And as I've looked at the rest of our summer we're pretty much

staying at home and chilling I mean there are some things that will be going on but I'm really looking forward to

dropping back into a different gear and and I've got some books I want to read I've got some books I want to read, I've got some videos I want to watch, and I want to kind

of sit out in the deck and listen to the pine trees and the wind in the pine trees and put a fire on and read some books and relax them.

Brent, what does different pace and what does all you're describing, relaxing, being on the deck?

What is it in all of that that you need?

I mean, what does that speak to?

I think sometimes I just run at a pace where I don't examine myself

very closely or or what's going on I don't step back and look at a bigger picture

and so I need a slower pace to be able to do that.

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