1 00:00:01,420 --> 00:00:04,490 Hey friend, welcome to another episode of the Sunday Sit down 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:08,570 and we are glad that you are tuning in on this not quite 3 00:00:08,580 --> 00:00:11,670 Advent. Advent See Christmassy but not 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:16,320 quite Christmas episode. So yesterday for us, this past 5 00:00:16,329 --> 00:00:21,590 Sunday, we began our Christmas series and we did it one week 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,490 earlier than normal. Advent, what do you call 0.5? 7 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:30,590 Advent 0.5 Yeah, which also, hey, we tried to do it at 0.5 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,759 speed. Half don't do that. 9 00:00:32,770 --> 00:00:35,240 That's gonna sound terrible. That's not what you meant by 10 00:00:35,250 --> 00:00:36,080 slowing. Down. 11 00:00:36,090 --> 00:00:39,420 No, not quite, not that much. Although for some people they 12 00:00:39,430 --> 00:00:42,360 prefer, you know, like I've, I've heard some people say that 13 00:00:42,370 --> 00:00:44,880 Grant, he's a, you know, a great preacher, but he, he speaks real 14 00:00:44,890 --> 00:00:46,520 fast sometimes. That's cause I gotta get 15 00:00:46,530 --> 00:00:48,610 everything out, Yeah. Otherwise they'll be, we'll be 16 00:00:48,620 --> 00:00:53,020 here for like 52 minutes. Yeah. 17 00:00:53,170 --> 00:00:57,780 And, and so the flip of that is I was with someone yesterday who 18 00:00:57,830 --> 00:01:02,480 really listens to my messages on 1.5 times speed. 19 00:01:02,550 --> 00:01:05,640 Yeah. So you go both ways, right. 20 00:01:06,490 --> 00:01:09,190 I think when you listen to something online, you can tend 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,700 to speed it up a bit faster if you're only listening to it and 22 00:01:11,710 --> 00:01:13,430 then you just get into the flow of it. 23 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,180 Whereas in person, yeah, we want to try to slow down a little 24 00:01:16,190 --> 00:01:17,470 bit. I need to slow down a little bit 25 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:23,560 and just remember to do that. So in the name of slowing down, 26 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,700 what we want to do today is talk a little bit about where we 27 00:01:28,710 --> 00:01:31,360 landed yesterday and our challenge to the congregation, 28 00:01:31,370 --> 00:01:37,380 which is to really do just that. Slow down during Advent and be 29 00:01:37,390 --> 00:01:40,400 intentional about what you're doing, what you're not doing, 30 00:01:40,410 --> 00:01:42,800 what you're spending time on, what you're not spending time 31 00:01:42,810 --> 00:01:44,980 on, what you're spending money on, what you're not spending 32 00:01:44,990 --> 00:01:50,590 money on, all of the things. And just to name attention, 33 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,850 which I named yesterday, which I think is where we're going to 34 00:01:52,860 --> 00:02:02,000 begin today, I, I, I preached on preparing out of Isaiah and the 35 00:02:02,010 --> 00:02:08,120 idea that in Isaiah's language, to prepare doesn't mean do more 36 00:02:08,130 --> 00:02:11,180 things. It, it in many, many ways just 37 00:02:11,190 --> 00:02:14,160 means be different, live differently. 38 00:02:14,370 --> 00:02:19,620 And so we talked about that language, that word itself 39 00:02:20,030 --> 00:02:23,860 meaning to turn, like to turn your face in a different 40 00:02:23,870 --> 00:02:26,380 direction, to turn your body in a different direction, and then 41 00:02:26,390 --> 00:02:27,860 to begin to move in that direction. 42 00:02:27,930 --> 00:02:33,410 In many ways, and I don't have a direct link in the Septuagint to 43 00:02:33,420 --> 00:02:36,660 the New Testament, but it in many ways carries the same 44 00:02:36,670 --> 00:02:41,450 definition as the Greek word metanoia, which is to repent and 45 00:02:41,460 --> 00:02:42,950 to change your. Mind that was like, there's 46 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:43,900 gotta be a connection. There. 47 00:02:43,910 --> 00:02:46,170 Yeah. So I didn't wanna preach that 48 00:02:46,180 --> 00:02:50,690 necessarily yesterday, but it in many ways it holds that same 49 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,650 meaning. And I remember when I was 50 00:02:53,660 --> 00:02:55,740 preaching on repentance, one day I brought somebody up from the 51 00:02:55,750 --> 00:02:59,110 congregation and said, OK, face this way, now face this way. 52 00:02:59,540 --> 00:03:02,050 Turn 150°. That's what it means. 53 00:03:02,060 --> 00:03:04,770 You're changing your mind in a way that also changes the 54 00:03:04,780 --> 00:03:08,110 direction of your lived experience and trajectory, 55 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,670 right? So to prepare is really to turn 56 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,310 and to be different, to live differently. 57 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,670 And that's our call to you. That's what we're challenging 58 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:23,470 ourselves with this Advent is to prepare by living differently 59 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:25,510 and trying to do this Advent season differently. 60 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,730 It's why we started a week too early because we wanted to give 61 00:03:29,740 --> 00:03:34,170 you a full week to, to prepare, to prepare like, you know, don't 62 00:03:34,180 --> 00:03:37,030 be surprised on the 1st Sunday of Advent. 63 00:03:37,740 --> 00:03:40,090 So I think what we're going to do today and what we've been 64 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:42,990 talking about is just talking through some of these practices 65 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,690 because I left, I said here's the tension. 66 00:03:47,350 --> 00:03:53,020 Uh, do less. Here's a whole list of things to 67 00:03:53,030 --> 00:03:55,800 do. Are correct, right? 68 00:03:55,810 --> 00:03:59,560 Unbelievable. So let's talk through this list 69 00:03:59,570 --> 00:04:05,220 and really wrestle out why it's not simply doing more or adding 70 00:04:05,230 --> 00:04:07,920 more to your To Do List. Because what I don't want you 71 00:04:07,930 --> 00:04:14,380 listener feeling and walking away thinking is, Oh my 72 00:04:14,390 --> 00:04:17,399 goodness. Now on top of everything else 73 00:04:17,410 --> 00:04:21,390 that I have to do, those pastors over there are telling me to do 74 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:25,890 all these other things as well. And now I'm overwhelmed. 75 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,190 Which which feels, you know, just to kind of call back to 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:34,350 last week a little bit, you know, Jesus critique toward the 77 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,270 the scribes and the Pharisees was often that they were heaping 78 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,080 more laws upon the people, right. 79 00:04:41,090 --> 00:04:44,780 Yeah. And and that is not what we are 80 00:04:44,790 --> 00:04:48,950 aiming to do here, right. And in fact, I mean, I'm, I'm 81 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,980 just even thinking about, you know, my morning struggle to if 82 00:04:53,990 --> 00:04:57,290 I get up, you know, in in good time, which I try to do more 83 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:01,480 mornings than not to be able to just be still before God. 84 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:07,950 Like there is always the tension of I could sit here and scroll 85 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,910 whatever, you know, your medium of choices for half an hour or 86 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,010 do something more intentional, right? 87 00:05:15,980 --> 00:05:20,550 Like there is a choice to be made, not an addition to. 88 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:21,790 Right. Yeah. 89 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:24,590 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like the word intentional, 90 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,030 right? I think that's what we're really 91 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,430 challenging ourselves with. So here's the piece with the 92 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,710 Pharisees, right? Jesus says you heap heavy 93 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,260 burdens on all the people and you yourself are not even 94 00:05:35,270 --> 00:05:37,300 willing to lift a finger to do them. 95 00:05:37,350 --> 00:05:40,220 And so I like, I just want to say, and I'll speak for myself 96 00:05:40,230 --> 00:05:44,420 like these are practices that I'm committing to do that are 97 00:05:44,490 --> 00:05:47,780 will be challenging for me to do as well. 98 00:05:47,950 --> 00:05:52,560 So, you know, it's not like this is not coming from a place of, 99 00:05:52,570 --> 00:05:56,460 hey, look at the five practices that I do every year now you 100 00:05:56,470 --> 00:05:59,160 need to do them too. Like this will be a challenge 101 00:05:59,170 --> 00:06:03,300 for me and for my family to incorporate one or two of these 102 00:06:03,310 --> 00:06:07,950 into our intentional rhythms of life for the next 4 weeks. 103 00:06:08,020 --> 00:06:11,950 But it's a challenge because it's, it's so different from 104 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,330 what we're used to, rather than just, it's a challenge because 105 00:06:15,340 --> 00:06:18,350 it's just how are we gonna make time for all this, right? 106 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:21,550 Like the time is there, right? And it's just about re, you 107 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,990 know, reorienting, realigning, preparing for it in this way. 108 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,000 Yeah, yeah. So I think the first thing if 109 00:06:28,010 --> 00:06:30,190 we're going to talk about steps like just to get really 110 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,820 practical and, and name, you know, these five practices, what 111 00:06:35,830 --> 00:06:39,820 they could look like. I think the first step before 112 00:06:39,830 --> 00:06:44,810 you even get to these practices is to sit down and either by 113 00:06:44,820 --> 00:06:48,870 yourself, if you have that kind of autonomy over your own 114 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:55,550 schedule or with a spouse, with your family, say together, 115 00:06:56,020 --> 00:07:00,650 alright, in order to do this, we need to give something up. 116 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,830 What is the thing that we're going to give up? 117 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,030 Might not even be like, what's the thing we're willing to give 118 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,090 up because that gets into a different, but what is the thing 119 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:12,940 that we're going to choose to give up in order to incorporate 120 00:07:12,950 --> 00:07:14,990 some of these practices? We believe that we want to do 121 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 ADVENT differently. So therefore, what needs to be 122 00:07:18,010 --> 00:07:20,570 different? What are we going to let go of? 123 00:07:20,820 --> 00:07:23,330 And you know, you get the easy culprits, right? 124 00:07:23,340 --> 00:07:27,220 The easy quick sort of you've said social media, maybe you 125 00:07:27,230 --> 00:07:30,680 delete all your social media off your phone for Advent. 126 00:07:30,750 --> 00:07:34,460 And that's the I'm going to give that U and I'm going to instead 127 00:07:34,470 --> 00:07:38,850 I'm going to install Lectio 365 and that's going to be my go to 128 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:40,410 thing. Whenever I talk to people about 129 00:07:40,420 --> 00:07:43,990 habits, like we're really trying to change and form our habits. 130 00:07:44,060 --> 00:07:47,110 You need to replace a habit with a habit. 131 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,750 Like you can't just say, oh, I'm gonna do this new thing or you 132 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,450 can't just say I'm gonna undo this old thing. 133 00:07:54,130 --> 00:07:56,360 So for me, like if I want to spend less time on my phone, 134 00:07:56,370 --> 00:07:58,380 what I do, and I think we've talked about this a little bit, 135 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:01,770 is I have a pocket sized notebook that's basically the 136 00:08:01,780 --> 00:08:06,420 same size as my phone and it goes into my back pocket, which 137 00:08:06,430 --> 00:08:09,840 is where my phone normally is. So if I want to be intentional 138 00:08:09,850 --> 00:08:13,200 for a day about not reaching for my phone, my phone goes into a 139 00:08:13,210 --> 00:08:15,060 different spot. Usually it's into like I've got 140 00:08:15,070 --> 00:08:17,870 this little tech case that I put it into and zipper it up and 141 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,960 then it goes into my backpack and a zipper that up and I'm 142 00:08:19,970 --> 00:08:22,100 just like barrier after barrier here, right? 143 00:08:22,450 --> 00:08:26,940 And so I'll stash it away somewhere and I still hear it if 144 00:08:26,950 --> 00:08:28,840 it rings, but like, I'll stash it away. 145 00:08:28,910 --> 00:08:31,280 And then instead I'll put a notebook in my back pocket 146 00:08:31,290 --> 00:08:33,559 because what's the habit? The habit is I'm gonna reach for 147 00:08:33,570 --> 00:08:37,500 my phone. And so instead it makes me pull 148 00:08:37,510 --> 00:08:39,120 out a journal. I'm like, well, I guess I'm 149 00:08:39,130 --> 00:08:42,690 gonna write something down like, you know, you need to, you need 150 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:45,510 to start tricking your brain a little bit in terms of doing 151 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,670 this. So give something up and choose 152 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:51,080 what that is. So, you know, maybe it's social 153 00:08:51,090 --> 00:08:54,990 media, maybe you put something in its place like 2365, maybe 154 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,160 it's evening, Netflix, Disney, Prime Video, whatever, like 155 00:08:59,170 --> 00:09:02,470 streaming or television. If people still have satellite 156 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,710 or cable subscriptions, you know, maybe maybe you actually 157 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:13,370 decide to unplug it, right? Or, you know, you put in like 158 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:16,020 into your router, if you're smart enough to do this, like, 159 00:09:16,030 --> 00:09:21,310 hey, turn off at such and such a time so that you're not gonna go 160 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,470 and stream, you know, endlessly for a few hours in the evening. 161 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,210 Maybe it's video games, Maybe it's. 162 00:09:28,420 --> 00:09:33,090 Stop calling me out, I'm sorry. You know, like pick what it is 163 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:34,770 for you. Don't let like I think that 164 00:09:34,780 --> 00:09:37,450 there what what I'm trying to say is don't let us dictate what 165 00:09:37,460 --> 00:09:39,390 that thing is. Yeah, I think everybody will 166 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:40,310 know. Different for. 167 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,230 Everyone, yeah, here's the thing that I could let go of for for a 168 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,510 season and it doesn't even need to be a bad thing. 169 00:09:45,590 --> 00:09:48,030 Yeah, that's the, that's the, I think the other piece right, is 170 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,930 it's just a choice. So yeah, do that first. 171 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:58,260 A 10.5 step. 1A. Choose what you're going to let 172 00:09:58,270 --> 00:10:00,930 go of. And so like you talked about 173 00:10:00,940 --> 00:10:03,820 like, you know, deleting certain apps and adding something like 174 00:10:03,830 --> 00:10:06,850 like, like your 365, which we've talked about quite a bit. 175 00:10:06,910 --> 00:10:12,150 And that's one, that's one form of like it's kind of a loose 176 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,090 form of Lectio Divina, right? There's, it's not quite the same 177 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:18,730 as Lectio Divina, but it's, it can kind of get you there is in 178 00:10:18,740 --> 00:10:21,530 a guided sort of way, right? And so like, that's like a, 179 00:10:21,540 --> 00:10:23,910 that's a great way, but it's not the only way to do it, right. 180 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,210 And so you've highlighted in these practices kind of a a 181 00:10:27,220 --> 00:10:31,370 proper Lectio Divina where you are just sitting with a 182 00:10:31,380 --> 00:10:34,970 scripture and you're reading, meditating and praying and 183 00:10:34,980 --> 00:10:37,380 contemplating, right. So when we talk a little bit 184 00:10:37,390 --> 00:10:40,490 more specifically about that practice, yeah. 185 00:10:40,580 --> 00:10:43,210 And just to say, one of the reasons why I like lactose so 186 00:10:43,220 --> 00:10:46,490 much, like the Lecture 365 app, is that it, it actually 187 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:49,070 incorporates practice 1 and practice two. 188 00:10:49,340 --> 00:10:52,330 Yeah, into its just if you put the app on your phone, what 189 00:10:52,340 --> 00:10:56,930 you're going to see is it's got sorry not to It's it's three 190 00:10:56,940 --> 00:11:00,340 practice 3, the fixed hour prayer more so so practice 1 and 191 00:11:00,350 --> 00:11:02,810 practice 3. But it has this slowed down way 192 00:11:02,820 --> 00:11:05,200 of reading Scripture and then encouraging you to contemplate, 193 00:11:05,270 --> 00:11:06,870 pray through it. And it's going to give you 194 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:08,730 prayers if you like. I don't even know where to 195 00:11:08,740 --> 00:11:11,650 start. It's so it's such a great on 196 00:11:11,660 --> 00:11:13,870 ramp. And then it's also, you know, it 197 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:18,070 has it has alarms and it has morning and evening. 198 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,890 So you can get into some of the more fixed hour prayers as well. 199 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:22,620 Say Hey remind me to do this but. 200 00:11:22,740 --> 00:11:25,230 I think this afternoon now too. Yeah, yeah. 201 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:29,070 So let's just like you said so practice 1. 202 00:11:30,270 --> 00:11:33,930 I often just say lectio, which just that doesn't define it at 203 00:11:33,940 --> 00:11:37,550 all. But in English, sacred reading 204 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,380 is the translation. And these are all, like, the 205 00:11:41,390 --> 00:11:45,330 thing I love about these practices is they're all so old, 206 00:11:46,490 --> 00:11:48,540 like they are ancient. Practices. 207 00:11:48,550 --> 00:11:51,450 They're awesome. And I think the thing, the thing 208 00:11:51,460 --> 00:11:54,830 that I would love for people to realize is like, I didn't cook 209 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,530 these up and, you know, you and I didn't sit and be like, oh, 210 00:11:58,540 --> 00:11:59,910 what, what can we make people do? 211 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:04,030 Like these are practices. Novel is like sometimes the best 212 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,990 things. Often when it comes to our you 213 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,170 know, our spiritual practice is the best things are the ones 214 00:12:09,180 --> 00:12:12,690 that have been tried, tested and true over generations and 215 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:16,050 centuries and millennia. Saints have been formed. 216 00:12:16,180 --> 00:12:18,980 Yeah. By doing these practices, Yeah. 217 00:12:19,110 --> 00:12:21,780 And you know, that goes down a theological rabbit trail that 218 00:12:21,790 --> 00:12:23,420 we're not gonna go to today. Yeah. 219 00:12:24,270 --> 00:12:27,900 But like there is there's something good and leaning into 220 00:12:27,910 --> 00:12:33,770 practices that are historical and well trodden. 221 00:12:34,620 --> 00:12:37,690 You know, these are are good ones in that way. 222 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:44,380 So, Lectio, here's the the, you know, 32nd elevator pitch. 223 00:12:45,210 --> 00:12:53,160 It is going to help you slow down and listen for what God 224 00:12:53,170 --> 00:12:56,700 might be saying to you through a specific passage of Scripture. 225 00:12:56,710 --> 00:13:00,580 Yeah, you're not trying to cruise through it to get done. 226 00:13:00,730 --> 00:13:02,940 It's not about efficiency. It's not, we're not, we're not 227 00:13:02,950 --> 00:13:04,770 enc no. And we're not saying read an 228 00:13:04,780 --> 00:13:08,220 entire chapter or three chapters or a whole book. 229 00:13:08,230 --> 00:13:14,330 We're saying slow down. Read a few verses and allow God 230 00:13:14,340 --> 00:13:17,400 to speak to you. So if you've been wrestling 231 00:13:17,410 --> 00:13:21,510 through how and when and where does God speak to me? 232 00:13:21,580 --> 00:13:25,110 And if you've been saying to yourself, like I really want to 233 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:30,010 hear from God this season, whatever that season is, right? 234 00:13:30,020 --> 00:13:37,400 Good or bad, Um, this is a good way to do that because one of 235 00:13:37,410 --> 00:13:42,240 the things that I'd like to remind people is, um, I think we 236 00:13:42,250 --> 00:13:44,720 all go through moments where like I just, I want God to speak 237 00:13:44,730 --> 00:13:46,720 to me. I want God to say something like 238 00:13:46,730 --> 00:13:52,300 I wanna hear from God and at the same time we say that and then 239 00:13:52,350 --> 00:13:55,070 are not reading Scripture and they go. 240 00:13:55,080 --> 00:14:02,560 You have in front of you, like so many of the messages and 241 00:14:02,570 --> 00:14:06,300 words and moments where God has shown up and spoken. 242 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,350 Um, and, and, and yet we kind of like leave it off to the side. 243 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,450 We'll say, well, I, I don't want, I don't want to read the 244 00:14:13,460 --> 00:14:14,670 Bible. I want to hear from God. 245 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,310 Yeah, I was like, well, listen, like chances are this is the way 246 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,050 he's gonna speak to you. Yeah. 247 00:14:21,130 --> 00:14:22,880 And so I think it's a great place to start. 248 00:14:22,890 --> 00:14:27,200 So what I would love for people to do is slow down, read the 249 00:14:27,210 --> 00:14:30,730 text. You read it in a way of just 250 00:14:30,740 --> 00:14:32,020 say, hey, what is this text saying? 251 00:14:32,070 --> 00:14:36,060 Simply put, what is it saying? And then you meditate on it. 252 00:14:36,070 --> 00:14:41,200 What is the text saying to me? What's jumping out at you? 253 00:14:41,210 --> 00:14:44,960 What is standing out? What is grabbing your attention? 254 00:14:44,970 --> 00:14:47,600 What words can you not move off from? 255 00:14:47,660 --> 00:14:50,300 Like what's the thing that you keep repeating and rereading? 256 00:14:51,430 --> 00:14:54,990 So what does the text say #1 and then what does the text say to 257 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,010 me? Almost like as an emphasis there 258 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:03,290 um #3 to pray. What do I want to say to God? 259 00:15:04,290 --> 00:15:06,250 What does this text challenge me to say to God? 260 00:15:06,910 --> 00:15:09,980 What am I bringing as I come? And it's kind of like a shedding 261 00:15:09,990 --> 00:15:12,520 of yourself a little bit like, you know, you get into these 262 00:15:12,530 --> 00:15:17,120 moments where like in prayer, you again, if you want to hear, 263 00:15:17,690 --> 00:15:20,960 but you just can't get out of this like framework of but this 264 00:15:20,970 --> 00:15:22,560 is going on and this is going on, this is going on. 265 00:15:22,570 --> 00:15:24,120 I said like God cares about that. 266 00:15:24,410 --> 00:15:28,570 So bring that and then you get contemplate, like, what is God 267 00:15:28,580 --> 00:15:31,960 trying to say to me in the midst of what I'm saying to God, in 268 00:15:31,970 --> 00:15:34,010 the midst of what the text is saying to me in the midst of 269 00:15:34,020 --> 00:15:35,730 what the text is just plainly saying? 270 00:15:35,740 --> 00:15:38,030 Yeah. And do that a few times. 271 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,730 So you go, you know, go through that kind of three times. 272 00:15:43,670 --> 00:15:46,360 Yeah, if you're if you're someone who's like interested in 273 00:15:46,370 --> 00:15:51,490 diving a little deeper into some of this, there's a really short 274 00:15:51,550 --> 00:15:54,560 book by Eugene Peterson called Eat This Book. 275 00:15:54,570 --> 00:15:56,210 Have you read that one? Yeah, Yeah. 276 00:15:56,250 --> 00:16:01,100 It's a great, it's a great little, just little book that 277 00:16:01,110 --> 00:16:04,410 kind of goes through the different facets of Lectio and 278 00:16:04,420 --> 00:16:08,610 talks about why it is so such a beautiful practice. 279 00:16:08,690 --> 00:16:10,860 And he kind of use otherwise. The reason it's called Eat This 280 00:16:10,870 --> 00:16:13,610 Book is because he kind of uses the metaphor of I think it's 281 00:16:13,650 --> 00:16:17,390 Ezekiel that, you know, that has this image of eating, eating the 282 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,090 scroll and it tasted like honey. And, and, and kind of using that 283 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:26,650 example of like when we when we slow down and we just savor and 284 00:16:26,660 --> 00:16:30,610 listen, God speaks in pretty amazing ways. 285 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:31,970 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 286 00:16:32,020 --> 00:16:36,100 The last thing that I would add to that is I like to do Lectio 287 00:16:36,110 --> 00:16:42,890 with a journal reopen beside me because again, slowed down. 288 00:16:42,940 --> 00:16:46,520 You're trying to listen. Sometimes it's helpful just to 289 00:16:46,530 --> 00:16:50,650 write things down as you go. So use that as a tool. 290 00:16:50,660 --> 00:16:53,800 That's number one. And that could look like every 291 00:16:53,810 --> 00:16:57,240 morning, that could look like, you know, part way through the 292 00:16:57,250 --> 00:17:02,210 afternoon. It could happen in the evening. 293 00:17:02,460 --> 00:17:07,510 There's no set time where this works better than others. 294 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,349 I think that the challenges carve out the time and commit to 295 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,970 doing it at the same time. That that would be my 296 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:17,569 encouragement. Cool. 297 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:23,010 Yeah, alright, practice too. This one has to happen at a 298 00:17:23,020 --> 00:17:25,829 specific time. Yes, yeah. 299 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:29,000 So this one and and admittedly this one is less familiar for 300 00:17:29,010 --> 00:17:31,350 me. So I'd I'd love to hear a bit 301 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:34,890 more about it. I'm I am vaguely familiar, but 302 00:17:35,460 --> 00:17:39,790 the daily examine. Yeah, so Ignatian, this is 303 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:47,290 Ignatian practice. Daily examine is out of the 304 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:54,870 ignition order so originated with Ignatius of Loyola and 305 00:17:55,260 --> 00:18:05,020 again ancient practice it it really is I I think and in my 306 00:18:05,030 --> 00:18:08,200 experience to hone in on that contemplation. 307 00:18:09,010 --> 00:18:14,820 The thing I love about it is that in in a similar way to like 308 00:18:14,830 --> 00:18:17,980 a brother Lawrence practice the presence of God, right doing 309 00:18:17,990 --> 00:18:21,540 dishes do like in the back of the kitchen doing dishes 310 00:18:22,130 --> 00:18:24,220 wrestling out the presence of God in these moments. 311 00:18:24,230 --> 00:18:28,620 I think the thing that I love about this, the daily examine is 312 00:18:28,630 --> 00:18:36,380 that it is very pointed at looking for God in your everyday 313 00:18:36,390 --> 00:18:39,880 life. So what it's not is this super 314 00:18:39,890 --> 00:18:44,660 sacred separate moment where you're doing your devotion thing 315 00:18:45,030 --> 00:18:49,500 and then you re enter back into everyday secular life, whatever 316 00:18:49,510 --> 00:18:53,700 like this one fights that disintegrated life to use some 317 00:18:53,710 --> 00:18:55,730 of our language from the past few weeks. 318 00:18:55,990 --> 00:19:00,970 So the disintegration where you are ripping apart like your work 319 00:19:00,980 --> 00:19:04,600 life from your home life, from your Christian life. 320 00:19:04,610 --> 00:19:06,350 This is God time. This is me time. 321 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:10,810 Absolutely, like there is no sacred secular divide in Jesus's 322 00:19:10,820 --> 00:19:15,290 understanding of the world. And so this enters into that 323 00:19:15,350 --> 00:19:20,730 frame of mind where there's no, you don't get the excuse of, 324 00:19:20,740 --> 00:19:23,290 well, you know, that's my work life, so I can leave it over 325 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:25,570 there. Now is my time with Jesus and 326 00:19:25,580 --> 00:19:30,220 I'm going to focus on scripture. Everything of your life gets 327 00:19:30,230 --> 00:19:34,860 brought into like the light of examining before Jesus. 328 00:19:34,910 --> 00:19:39,570 So again, this one's a little bit, a little bit more nebulous, 329 00:19:41,090 --> 00:19:44,520 but you can look so online if you Google like the daily 330 00:19:44,530 --> 00:19:50,720 examine or ignition practice daily examine, you will find 331 00:19:50,990 --> 00:19:54,540 many different resources on these five steps. 332 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,390 But generally speaking, there are 5 movements to the daily 333 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,940 examine. This is meant to take place at, 334 00:20:00,990 --> 00:20:04,060 you know, in the evening after your day is done. 335 00:20:04,110 --> 00:20:06,680 And it's meant for you to look back on your day. 336 00:20:06,750 --> 00:20:10,280 And it's meant to encourage you toward gratitude. 337 00:20:10,290 --> 00:20:12,100 And it's meant to encourage you to name. 338 00:20:12,190 --> 00:20:14,170 The places where you saw God at work. 339 00:20:14,930 --> 00:20:17,000 So sometimes it's hard to do that in the moment. 340 00:20:18,030 --> 00:20:20,040 Sometimes you're in the moment, like I wanna remember this 341 00:20:20,050 --> 00:20:23,220 tonight. So it just helps you name God's 342 00:20:23,230 --> 00:20:26,360 presence and God's acting in your life when you are like, 343 00:20:26,370 --> 00:20:32,080 say, doing dishes or on your commute or at work or at school 344 00:20:32,150 --> 00:20:34,480 or at home, like wherever you find yourself. 345 00:20:34,490 --> 00:20:40,050 SO5 practices or five movements, intentionally placing yourself 346 00:20:40,060 --> 00:20:43,530 in God's presence and giving thanks for his love. 347 00:20:43,540 --> 00:20:49,470 So settling into a place where you can sit and consciously 348 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,570 choose to realize God's presence. 349 00:20:51,650 --> 00:20:53,190 That's not gonna feel like it might. 350 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,850 It might feel like, you know, the clouds parting and light, 351 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,770 you know, shining into a room and like it might feel this 352 00:20:59,780 --> 00:21:01,770 super spiritual. Sometimes it's just like a 353 00:21:01,780 --> 00:21:02,810 stillness. Right. 354 00:21:02,820 --> 00:21:07,130 More often than not, it's choosing to acknowledge the 355 00:21:07,140 --> 00:21:11,510 presence of God that Scripture says is there, as opposed to 356 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:12,820 wait and be like, OK, God, I'm ready. 357 00:21:12,830 --> 00:21:15,590 I'm ready for you to show up. It's actually like God. 358 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,590 I'm going to choose to believe and trust that you're here with 359 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,610 me. Alright, so you're shifting your 360 00:21:22,620 --> 00:21:24,520 own mind about, you know, the presence of God. 361 00:21:24,530 --> 00:21:25,950 But place yourself in God's presence. 362 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:31,410 Give thanks for His love. Start with gratitude #2 pray for 363 00:21:31,420 --> 00:21:33,570 grace to understand how God is acting in your life. 364 00:21:33,580 --> 00:21:38,750 Just say, hey God, I want to see you at work more. 365 00:21:38,940 --> 00:21:40,990 Again, I'm going to choose to trust that you are. 366 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:45,390 Help me to see the ways you are working. 367 00:21:45,460 --> 00:21:48,550 Yeah, and help me to trust that it is you working. 368 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:54,880 So again, 1-2, place yourself in God's presence, pray for grace 369 00:21:54,950 --> 00:21:58,160 and an understanding of how God is acting in your life, and then 370 00:21:58,170 --> 00:22:01,520 #3 review your day. Think about the things that you 371 00:22:01,530 --> 00:22:03,340 did. Think about the things that you 372 00:22:03,350 --> 00:22:05,740 didn't do. O we use this language in our 373 00:22:05,750 --> 00:22:10,610 prayers of confession, right? Things that we did, things that 374 00:22:10,620 --> 00:22:14,910 we left undone, right? But I think you just think 375 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,470 through the steps of your day and how were you so like getting 376 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,650 your kids out the door, trying to pile them all into snow 377 00:22:20,660 --> 00:22:22,250 suits. And like this very real one for 378 00:22:22,260 --> 00:22:25,250 me, like trying to pile my kids into snow suits this morning. 379 00:22:25,420 --> 00:22:28,940 Like, how was I? And and nice. 380 00:22:30,140 --> 00:22:31,520 Yes and no. Like me. 381 00:22:31,530 --> 00:22:35,790 And it's like no, like, no, like Monday morning snow suits. 382 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,430 It's it's sometimes it's a battle. 383 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:41,230 Yeah. And sometimes, sometimes I have 384 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,950 patience and sometimes I don't have patience. 385 00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:45,790 Yeah. And today was a less patient 386 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:46,490 day. Hmm. 387 00:22:46,530 --> 00:22:48,190 For sure. Hmm. 388 00:22:48,230 --> 00:22:51,630 So think through those moments of your day and listen, the the 389 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,850 point isn't to add guilt and shame. 390 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,410 And, you know, not that those things are even the same. 391 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,790 Yeah. But but it's to notice the 392 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,700 notice to to notice and to allow God into those spaces, because 393 00:23:05,710 --> 00:23:08,950 sometimes I think we can just go on autopilot right in our day 394 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,480 without, without self reflection, without looking back 395 00:23:12,490 --> 00:23:16,700 at me, like I kind of was a jerk to my kids this morning. 396 00:23:16,780 --> 00:23:21,590 Perhaps, you know, tomorrow I can be more conscious of my 397 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,990 what, you know, my own emotions in that moment. 398 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,410 What's, what is you know what, what's what's going on with me, 399 00:23:26,420 --> 00:23:28,370 right? Yeah, I the beauty of this is I 400 00:23:28,380 --> 00:23:33,090 get to say, you know, alright, how was I wasn't at my best. 401 00:23:33,140 --> 00:23:35,910 What am I gonna do differently? Yeah, absolutely. 402 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:43,290 And, and to do that in a place before God is, you know, in many 403 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:47,290 ways like, hey, if if you know, if you're wrestling at what 404 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:50,990 confession is like you just, you just made it 90% of the way 405 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:57,320 there right before God. And so review your day, be 406 00:23:57,330 --> 00:24:01,560 grateful for what you should be grateful for, and then recall 407 00:24:01,570 --> 00:24:05,100 specific moments and then specific emotions attached to 408 00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:08,480 them, Right. So name the wins and also name 409 00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:11,840 the losses and name your motions in and through all of it. 410 00:24:12,030 --> 00:24:14,500 Reflect on what you did, what you said, what you thought. 411 00:24:14,830 --> 00:24:19,980 Were you in that moment moving closer to God or further away 412 00:24:19,990 --> 00:24:21,960 from God? So that's the fourth one. 413 00:24:22,030 --> 00:24:26,020 I think that's where you, you, you are challenged to be the 414 00:24:26,030 --> 00:24:29,300 most honest and raw. Be like, yeah, my commute this 415 00:24:29,310 --> 00:24:32,360 morning was not moving closer to God, did not reflect Jesus. 416 00:24:32,370 --> 00:24:35,060 Well, that I'm not saying that about my day today cause I've 417 00:24:35,070 --> 00:24:37,120 got the greatest commute in the history of commutes. 418 00:24:37,430 --> 00:24:42,510 One minute. Yeah, if I walk like it's, it's 419 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:47,560 so, so, you know, there have been days though, where I had 420 00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:51,980 like hour and a half commutes, absolutely frustrated and 421 00:24:52,030 --> 00:24:57,100 stressed out and not in those moments moving closer to God. 422 00:24:57,110 --> 00:24:58,850 So how am I gonna do that differently? 423 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,640 Again, don't beat yourself up. But just this gives you an 424 00:25:03,650 --> 00:25:07,040 opportunity to be honest and then #5 look forward to 425 00:25:07,050 --> 00:25:09,300 tomorrow. How might you partner with God 426 00:25:09,370 --> 00:25:12,310 and invite him into your day? And I would say like, invite him 427 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:13,400 into your day in a different way. 428 00:25:13,410 --> 00:25:16,910 Like, what steps are you going to take to just say, hey, I'm 429 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,490 choosing to be more conscious out of you showing up and how 430 00:25:19,500 --> 00:25:21,570 I'm leaning into that or running away from that. 431 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,330 Help me to do that better tomorrow. 432 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,830 Yeah. So it it here's one of the wins 433 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,740 of this thing. So if you go to bed and you find 434 00:25:29,750 --> 00:25:32,630 yourself waking up thinking, Oh, I didn't do this. 435 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,080 I gotta remember that tomorrow. I can't believe I left. 436 00:25:36,090 --> 00:25:38,640 Like, ohk, OK, gotta run down, figure that out. 437 00:25:38,820 --> 00:25:42,390 I left an e-mail and like unresponded to or I got text 438 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,150 this person. Like if you find yourself waking 439 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,490 up with that jolt and going, oh, like this is a really good 440 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:51,590 safeguard against that. And what a what a great way to 441 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:56,260 slow down this Advent just to reflect on every single day as 442 00:25:56,270 --> 00:25:59,690 you move toward Christmas. And I bet you're going to see a 443 00:25:59,890 --> 00:26:04,390 massive change in a whole lot of different things, like you might 444 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,950 start sleeping better, you'll probably have more patience. 445 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,460 You might feel a little worse about yourself for a little 446 00:26:11,470 --> 00:26:13,610 while. Yeah, but gives you a chance 447 00:26:13,620 --> 00:26:18,390 maybe to repair some things that have been, um, you know, broken 448 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,150 to some degree or fractured. Those are not insignificant 449 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,560 changes to think about over the course of a month just simply by 450 00:26:27,570 --> 00:26:30,800 reviewing your day before God and saying, God help me to be 451 00:26:30,810 --> 00:26:32,890 different tomorrow. Like I'm going to choose to be 452 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:35,560 different. So give me what I need again, 453 00:26:35,570 --> 00:26:39,020 like the invitation into Jesus prayer guy, give me, you know, 454 00:26:39,030 --> 00:26:41,060 give me today what I need for today. 455 00:26:41,590 --> 00:26:43,660 So you go to bed starting to pray that prayer, God for 456 00:26:43,670 --> 00:26:45,020 tomorrow. Give me what I need just for 457 00:26:45,030 --> 00:26:47,910 tomorrow. As you as you unpack some of 458 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,800 those, it is, you know, going back to like your like your 365. 459 00:26:51,810 --> 00:26:54,480 The evening one does incorporate quite a bit of this as well. 460 00:26:54,490 --> 00:26:58,600 It does. So that is you know, if if that 461 00:26:58,610 --> 00:27:00,560 if you need a bit of guidance with that. 462 00:27:01,670 --> 00:27:05,070 I love, I love the evening one because it it almost puts me to 463 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,850 sleep in like the best way. Yeah, like so. 464 00:27:07,860 --> 00:27:09,740 Absolutely, Yeah. I think what we're just saying 465 00:27:09,750 --> 00:27:14,460 is if if all you did was download like 2365 this Advent 466 00:27:14,470 --> 00:27:19,180 and committed to opening that app once a day, your life would 467 00:27:19,190 --> 00:27:23,690 be better for it like that. What a what a beautiful. 468 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,860 This is not paid. This is not a paid sponsorship. 469 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:27,890 Nothing. No. 470 00:27:28,050 --> 00:27:30,410 No, but I think we use it right. Yeah. 471 00:27:30,420 --> 00:27:35,190 And like that, I think that's, that's probably the number one 472 00:27:39,660 --> 00:27:43,570 indorsement is yeah, yeah, absolutely only endorse the 473 00:27:43,580 --> 00:27:45,930 things that we know. So OK, so that's practice one 474 00:27:45,940 --> 00:27:48,310 and two practice 3 fixed hour prayer. 475 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:51,190 Hmm. Or what's often been called 476 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,820 Liturgy of the Hours. Again, just this. 477 00:27:55,870 --> 00:27:59,880 Really, this one may be the most structured in terms of your 478 00:27:59,890 --> 00:28:02,870 entire day. And where your technology might 479 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,660 come in handy. Yeah, because you can actually 480 00:28:04,670 --> 00:28:08,680 just like put a little alarm on your phone or watch or whatever, 481 00:28:08,690 --> 00:28:12,660 just to remind you. So what I would do here is 482 00:28:12,670 --> 00:28:17,920 exactly that I would set an alarm for three times a day, and 483 00:28:17,930 --> 00:28:20,600 that the first one might be the alarm that you set when you wake 484 00:28:20,610 --> 00:28:22,720 up and you just go. I'm going to commit to not hit 485 00:28:22,730 --> 00:28:24,920 snooze. That alarm is going to go off 486 00:28:25,010 --> 00:28:30,650 and I before my feet hit the floor, I am going to say a 487 00:28:30,660 --> 00:28:35,850 prayer, right? Don't light a candle before you 488 00:28:35,860 --> 00:28:38,460 get out of bed. Probably not safe because that's 489 00:28:38,470 --> 00:28:40,970 what I included for the morning. Like light a candle and read the 490 00:28:40,980 --> 00:28:44,180 day's Advent reading. These are these are examples of 491 00:28:44,190 --> 00:28:47,230 what you could do. You could you could sit up in 492 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,530 your bed if you had a candle on your night stand. 493 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:53,950 Just saying. Yeah, listen, that's do that at 494 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,650 your own risk. No, but I I think here's here's 495 00:28:58,660 --> 00:29:01,350 the point. Morning, midday, evening, set an 496 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:06,210 alarm and choose a practice. It could be to pray the same 497 00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:11,110 prayer you you could literally pray the Lord's Prayer three 498 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:15,710 times a day and that will begin to shift and change your 499 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,910 relationship to Jesus and others like it. 500 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,430 It. It doesn't need to be this fully 501 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:31,080 formed practice with candles and readings and it can be but if 502 00:29:31,750 --> 00:29:34,130 well, I wanna be careful with this, but like if all you did 503 00:29:34,820 --> 00:29:39,870 was three times a day prayed, the Lord's Prayer leaps and 504 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,430 bounds ahead of not doing. It. 505 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:45,860 Like can't even begin to say. So yeah, set an alarm for three 506 00:29:45,870 --> 00:29:47,170 times a day and then choose a practice. 507 00:29:47,180 --> 00:29:49,230 It could be the same practice that you do every single time, 508 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,310 or it could be a different practice at each point. 509 00:29:52,570 --> 00:29:57,310 And I would say this is a great practice if you are not doing 510 00:29:57,380 --> 00:30:01,820 anything right now, this is a great practice to start simply 511 00:30:01,830 --> 00:30:04,360 by praying the Lord's Prayer three times a day. 512 00:30:04,490 --> 00:30:07,100 If you have a daily prayer rhythm and you're like, I want 513 00:30:07,110 --> 00:30:11,960 for something different or more, turn your current rhythm or 514 00:30:11,970 --> 00:30:16,340 current routine into a fixed hour routine where maybe you're 515 00:30:16,350 --> 00:30:20,040 already fantastic at giving up every morning and having quiet 516 00:30:20,050 --> 00:30:21,750 time where you're praying in your reading scripture. 517 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:22,930 Great. So that's your morning. 518 00:30:23,580 --> 00:30:26,910 This is an opportunity to add a midday prayer and then an 519 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,510 evening prayer, and maybe that evening prayer is the examine 520 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:33,650 and maybe your midday prayer is something like a Lectio 365 521 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:40,500 where you're listening. So that that I think is it this 522 00:30:40,510 --> 00:30:45,020 is a really good practice for people who have a, a more fully 523 00:30:45,030 --> 00:30:48,960 formed prayer life. And it's also a great practice 524 00:30:48,970 --> 00:30:53,560 if you're looking for like just one kind of crazy. 525 00:30:53,570 --> 00:30:56,580 And I'm doing air quotes here. But like, I know for some 526 00:30:56,590 --> 00:31:00,440 people, in order to set a goal, it, you can't set a wimpy goal. 527 00:31:00,530 --> 00:31:03,760 It's gotta be like, I'm gonna set a goal for 30 days to do 528 00:31:03,770 --> 00:31:07,690 something a little, that sounds a little bit crazy because 529 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,880 that's the motivation, right? Like that's kind of the, the, 530 00:31:10,950 --> 00:31:14,100 the reason behind it. So it's like, well, I'm not, I'm 531 00:31:14,110 --> 00:31:16,420 not running at all. I did this one year. 532 00:31:17,620 --> 00:31:20,710 I hadn't run in months and I was going on vacation. 533 00:31:21,550 --> 00:31:26,580 So a sane goal would be I'm gonna run three times a week 534 00:31:26,630 --> 00:31:28,840 while I'm on vacation. I said I'm going to run every 535 00:31:28,850 --> 00:31:33,840 day and it didn't matter how far I ran, what mattered what. 536 00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:36,420 So what qualified as a run? I could run to the mailbox 100 537 00:31:36,430 --> 00:31:38,390 meters there and back. That counted. 538 00:31:38,590 --> 00:31:43,320 If I got changed into my running equipment, like into my like 539 00:31:43,330 --> 00:31:46,140 into my shorts, T-shirt, whatever, shoes, if I actually 540 00:31:46,150 --> 00:31:47,900 gotcha. So running to catch my kid 541 00:31:47,910 --> 00:31:50,660 because they're just like goofing off didn't count. 542 00:31:51,570 --> 00:31:55,460 It had to be the intention, had to be there. 543 00:31:55,790 --> 00:31:59,060 And then if I ran a block, fantastic, that worked. 544 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:04,520 That's a crazy goal after it had not running at all, right? 545 00:32:04,590 --> 00:32:07,780 Were you sore? Yeah, it stunk, but I but I did 546 00:32:07,790 --> 00:32:10,930 it because it was just a little bit crazy. 547 00:32:11,350 --> 00:32:15,380 So the intention, right? The intention of it, it could 548 00:32:15,390 --> 00:32:19,010 be, I think for midday I included a one minute silence 549 00:32:19,750 --> 00:32:21,520 and then a simple three word prayer. 550 00:32:21,530 --> 00:32:25,160 Come Lord Jesus, you might read that and go like that's that's 551 00:32:25,170 --> 00:32:27,360 nothing. Don't like, but it's not 552 00:32:27,370 --> 00:32:29,400 nothing. It's not the intent, It's the 553 00:32:29,410 --> 00:32:31,060 intention. It's placing yourself before 554 00:32:31,070 --> 00:32:32,640 God, right. We're talking about how do we 555 00:32:32,650 --> 00:32:38,020 make ourselves available? Yeah, it literally a minute plus 556 00:32:38,090 --> 00:32:41,870 3 words. See what guys gonna do with it. 557 00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:46,320 One thing I love about all of these so far is that they're 558 00:32:46,330 --> 00:32:50,220 just like we talked like them being like a little weird, like 559 00:32:50,230 --> 00:32:53,460 this is like this is and as a church to like encourage 560 00:32:53,470 --> 00:32:56,030 ourselves in this way. It's it's a little weird. 561 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:00,490 It's a little kind of counter cultural in like the best kind 562 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:04,110 of way. And that it that it pushes up 563 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:09,570 against the the tendencies of our world in in ways that that I 564 00:33:09,580 --> 00:33:12,430 think are the most important for Christians to do. 565 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:14,950 Yeah. And that I think is the next one 566 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,670 as well for the the 4th practice of silence and solitude. 567 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:24,370 And I mean, I think this one is gaining more traction in, in 568 00:33:24,380 --> 00:33:26,810 kind of pop psychology and culture, the, the, the 569 00:33:26,820 --> 00:33:33,370 importance of like just being still and breathing and, and 570 00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:36,950 even just like being bored, you know, and, and yeah, allowing 571 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:42,060 your mind to, to be distracted and then to return to, you know, 572 00:33:42,070 --> 00:33:44,680 like, like there's, there's something that we're hearing a 573 00:33:44,690 --> 00:33:47,810 lot more about the importance of, but you know, Christians 574 00:33:47,820 --> 00:33:50,280 have been doing it for, for centuries. 575 00:33:50,350 --> 00:33:52,670 Yeah, I almost called this practice. 576 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,500 Be bored. Yeah, like that is the like. 577 00:33:55,650 --> 00:34:01,320 Choose to make yourself board again, like it is a gift. 578 00:34:01,370 --> 00:34:05,390 Boredom is a tremendous gift. Why is it when I tell my kid 579 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,540 that it's not it's not well received? 580 00:34:08,590 --> 00:34:11,110 Well, because you didn't receive it well when you were a kid. 581 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,360 It's only on the other. Side of it that. 582 00:34:13,370 --> 00:34:17,050 You know, you come to realize I think creativity is born in 583 00:34:17,060 --> 00:34:19,850 boredom. Like I I think what is This is 584 00:34:19,860 --> 00:34:24,230 why I'm so leery of AI and generative, specifically 585 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,170 generative AI. Yeah, because what we're doing 586 00:34:27,179 --> 00:34:31,739 is we're not allowing ourselves a couple of things. 587 00:34:31,810 --> 00:34:35,120 We're not allowing ourselves to be bored because you can always 588 00:34:35,130 --> 00:34:39,550 fill your space and time and mind with things, which was 589 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,219 stuff. Usually it's often it's garbage 590 00:34:43,230 --> 00:34:46,360 stuff like just not good, right? What do we call it now? 591 00:34:46,370 --> 00:34:48,199 Like brain rot brain. That's a. 592 00:34:48,210 --> 00:34:49,679 Word. That is, That is a thing, yeah. 593 00:34:49,730 --> 00:34:56,969 So that's number one, but I think #2 and, and I, I'm 594 00:34:57,020 --> 00:35:01,090 starting to wonder and believe that this second one might be 595 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:06,870 more detrimental is the more, so there are now studies showing 596 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,940 that the more students, young students use AI to help quote, 597 00:35:11,950 --> 00:35:18,430 like do research, the less they're able to think and 598 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,530 process, hmm, what it is they're doing right? 599 00:35:22,540 --> 00:35:25,770 So when it comes to writing an essay, like, hey, give me an 600 00:35:25,780 --> 00:35:29,380 outline for an essay, well, what have you not had to do? 601 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,380 Learn how to put together thoughts in an organized way 602 00:35:33,770 --> 00:35:37,580 that that logically makes sense and takes somebody from here and 603 00:35:37,590 --> 00:35:43,560 I'm pointing, you know, from here to there instead of not 604 00:35:43,570 --> 00:35:46,880 knowing the answer to something and having to sit with that. 605 00:35:47,010 --> 00:35:48,730 Oh, I don't know, like, what is it? 606 00:35:48,740 --> 00:35:51,790 Could it be this? Could it be that like you're not 607 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,270 problem solving, so we've removed like there's there's no 608 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,330 need to problem solve anymore because you can go straight to 609 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:02,090 ChatGPT and say, help me, help me figure this out. 610 00:36:02,220 --> 00:36:05,020 And you might get there faster and it might even be the like 611 00:36:05,030 --> 00:36:07,430 you might get to a good logical place. 612 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,570 You might not AI is wrong. And we don't talk about that 613 00:36:10,580 --> 00:36:13,430 enough that AI does make mistakes. 614 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,190 But what we're doing is we're not allowing ourselves the 615 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,280 challenge of thinking. We're not allowing ourselves the 616 00:36:20,290 --> 00:36:23,490 challenge of being bored and going how, what, what could I 617 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:25,860 fill this space with? So we're going to lose, we're 618 00:36:25,870 --> 00:36:28,050 going to lose problem solving and we're going to lose 619 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:29,890 creativity. And that worries me. 620 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,690 Yeah, and in a world that demands, you know, expediency 621 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:39,100 and efficiency, being bored and, and slowing down and being 622 00:36:39,110 --> 00:36:43,520 silent for, you know, some people like you, I think you 623 00:36:43,530 --> 00:36:46,980 wrote 5 to 10 minutes. My, my one professor who 624 00:36:46,990 --> 00:36:49,690 doesn't, he wrote a book on like centering prayer and, and, and 625 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,410 that kind of thing. And he, he, he's like, I, I 626 00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:54,220 encourage people to work their way like 30 minutes. 627 00:36:54,570 --> 00:36:58,340 I'm like, who that's like that's, that's a lot. 628 00:36:58,490 --> 00:37:01,340 That's a lot. But it's, I mean, it's changed 629 00:37:01,350 --> 00:37:03,230 people's lives. There's a trend, there's a 630 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:08,550 there's a trend now where people are like, I'm gonna fly from 631 00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:11,750 like Toronto to wherever, Vancouver, and I'm not gonna 632 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,810 watch anything and I'm not gonna. 633 00:37:13,820 --> 00:37:16,090 Listen to anything you use that No but. 634 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,670 Yeah, it's, it's crass, but but there's a trend now of people 635 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:26,090 realizing and actually celebrating when you can sit 636 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,580 there without a screen in front of you for an hour, for two 637 00:37:29,590 --> 00:37:32,290 hours, for three hours for A5, whatever it is. 638 00:37:32,980 --> 00:37:46,450 I Yeah, there is something to be said about doing a full like 24 639 00:37:46,460 --> 00:37:51,270 hours of silence and solitude. Like a full day, even a day like 640 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,770 a, like a, you know, 8 hour, like morning to evening kind of 641 00:37:54,780 --> 00:37:55,520 thing. Yeah. 642 00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:01,450 And I think that that probably terrifies a lot of people in 643 00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:05,010 seasons where I've had to discern sort of large things, 644 00:38:05,740 --> 00:38:11,750 Um, I've, I've felt that call to how you gotta get quiet before 645 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,890 God. And it's gotta be, it's gotta be 646 00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:17,030 big. Like it's gotta be not the, the 647 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,880 normal sort of, yeah, I'm going to slow down for, for half an 648 00:38:20,890 --> 00:38:24,690 hour, for an hour. Um, but yeah. 649 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:28,480 What could it look like to go away for a day, for a weekend? 650 00:38:28,580 --> 00:38:31,350 Zechariah, he had to be quiet for a real long time. 651 00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:33,450 Yeah, absolutely. That's just to tie in the the 652 00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:36,390 biblical, you know, the the Jesus birth narrative. 653 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,090 Struck mute, right, Because he questions, he doubts. 654 00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:40,970 But. Wonder what God did in that like 655 00:38:40,980 --> 00:38:42,310 season there. Must have been wild. 656 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,630 Absolutely in his life. Yeah, I so just in the tie back 657 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,520 to Isaiah, right? He says in the wilderness, O 658 00:38:50,530 --> 00:38:54,680 what you know, what wilderness might it be beneficial to 659 00:38:54,690 --> 00:38:56,490 intentionally enter into? Hmm. 660 00:38:56,530 --> 00:39:02,270 So silence and solitude, Yeah, I said, you know, can you get can 661 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,440 can you get 5 to 10 minutes a day? 662 00:39:06,190 --> 00:39:10,150 Maybe incorporate some other things into it as well, but try 663 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,960 to be as. This is where I'll say try to be 664 00:39:13,970 --> 00:39:18,110 as rigid as possible with this. Like try to be as even like 665 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,270 legalistic as possible 100% like your kids gonna run in and jump 666 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,830 on you and. That's that's very different 667 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,570 from so many other things that could be distracting you though. 668 00:39:27,580 --> 00:39:30,950 Like that's like a good distraction. 100% yeah, 669 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,370 absolutely. Don't turn yourself into a jerk 670 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:37,470 by doing this. Yeah, you know, so I for for me, 671 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:43,410 for silence and solitude to what I have found is I tried to 672 00:39:43,420 --> 00:39:46,330 incorporate silence and solitude into my morning prayer routine. 673 00:39:46,620 --> 00:39:51,590 And what would happen is like my kids would join in and, or want 674 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,410 to eat because they're hungry, right? 675 00:39:53,420 --> 00:39:57,250 Like I'd get up at 5:30 and they'd tear me up and so they 676 00:39:57,260 --> 00:40:01,700 come downstairs and. You know, I'd start getting 677 00:40:01,710 --> 00:40:03,540 frustrated, be like, well, I really wanted to get, you know, 678 00:40:03,550 --> 00:40:06,540 like 1/2 an hour of silence before like assuming they wake 679 00:40:06,550 --> 00:40:10,540 up at six and et cetera. And so I had to let just let go 680 00:40:10,550 --> 00:40:14,230 of that because it, it becomes counterintuitive or 681 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:16,760 counterproductive rather. Hmm. 682 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:22,870 And so now I, I don't pretend that I can do that in the 683 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,670 morning when I also need to be a dad. 684 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,850 I need to be on call for whatever's happening that has to 685 00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:32,490 happen at a different time during my day when I don't have 686 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:36,010 that imminent sort of immediate responsibility. 687 00:40:36,020 --> 00:40:39,760 So yeah, be careful about how you schedule it, but I think 688 00:40:39,770 --> 00:40:44,400 this is the one where you can, you can convince yourself for 689 00:40:44,410 --> 00:40:48,220 sure to try to be a little bit more specific and even rigid on 690 00:40:48,230 --> 00:40:51,470 it and see what happens. These other ones like again, 691 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,020 we're not, we're not trying to add burden to you, but there's, 692 00:40:54,030 --> 00:40:56,970 there's some fun in trying to be like again, a little bit crazy 693 00:40:56,980 --> 00:40:59,100 with. It and I think one thing worth 694 00:40:59,110 --> 00:41:01,290 noting that you've talked about before, but just worth saying 695 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:04,280 again is that when we talk about silence and solitude, it should 696 00:41:04,290 --> 00:41:06,980 not be confused with sort of like a modern notion of like 697 00:41:06,990 --> 00:41:10,860 meditation, which is a different practice and one that often asks 698 00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:13,730 us to sort of like empty our brains, which we're not called 699 00:41:13,740 --> 00:41:18,090 to do as followers of Jesus. Yeah, that that we are taking 700 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:22,400 the moment to be still and to, you know, receive God's love and 701 00:41:22,410 --> 00:41:24,560 to, you know, even some of these other things that are described 702 00:41:24,570 --> 00:41:25,910 here that can be done in silence. 703 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,760 We're sometimes in something like centering prayer. 704 00:41:28,770 --> 00:41:31,540 Sometimes there's a when you find yourself distracted, they 705 00:41:31,550 --> 00:41:34,380 encourage like a kind of a phrase to return back to you. 706 00:41:34,390 --> 00:41:38,100 But like, you know, the one that the one that I'm familiar with 707 00:41:38,110 --> 00:41:41,270 is, you know, Lord Jesus, have mercy on me, a Sinner, something 708 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,360 like that, right? Yeah, and you can incorporate 709 00:41:44,370 --> 00:41:48,470 some like breath prayers, right, what what the traditions have 710 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,560 called like breathing prayers or breath prayers. 711 00:41:50,570 --> 00:41:53,650 Again, this is another ancient practice, but where you breathe 712 00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:57,210 in and as you breathe in, you say like a couple word prayer 713 00:41:57,220 --> 00:42:01,170 and then breathe out. Yeah, and Justice use that 714 00:42:01,230 --> 00:42:03,760 because again, like, great point, You're not trying to 715 00:42:03,770 --> 00:42:06,740 empty your mind where you're not trying to find this like divine 716 00:42:06,750 --> 00:42:09,040 nothingness. Yeah, that's not the point. 717 00:42:09,110 --> 00:42:12,820 What you're trying to do is eliminate the external noise. 718 00:42:12,950 --> 00:42:15,410 You're going to find it's actually not quiet inside your 719 00:42:15,420 --> 00:42:17,460 mind. No, and that's the battle. 720 00:42:17,470 --> 00:42:20,120 And then you go into these intentional things, so silence 721 00:42:20,130 --> 00:42:24,170 and solitude pick a place and you know, no music, no podcast, 722 00:42:24,180 --> 00:42:29,690 no plan and see, you know what, what will happen as you wait on 723 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:34,210 God to show up. So practice for practice 5 And 724 00:42:34,220 --> 00:42:39,850 Advent wreath is, um, kind of maybe the most modern of these 725 00:42:39,860 --> 00:42:42,730 practices. This one's not like the ancient 726 00:42:42,780 --> 00:42:48,500 of ancient practices, but this one, I'm, I'm looking forward to 727 00:42:48,510 --> 00:42:49,880 this one. I'm going to try to do this one 728 00:42:49,890 --> 00:42:56,000 with my kids and I'll just say this much this week I am gonna 729 00:42:56,010 --> 00:42:58,740 go and try to find some. You can get these like flat 730 00:42:58,750 --> 00:43:04,260 sheets of beeswax and we're going to make these, we're going 731 00:43:04,270 --> 00:43:06,130 to make our own candles. And I'm sure they're gonna like 732 00:43:06,140 --> 00:43:08,690 fall apart and we're going to like, I can't, I can't, I don't 733 00:43:08,700 --> 00:43:10,650 have, I don't know how to make a candle. 734 00:43:10,780 --> 00:43:16,610 But we're gonna, we're gonna try to find these flat wax sheets, 735 00:43:16,620 --> 00:43:22,810 roll them up into candles and make some sort of wreath that 736 00:43:22,820 --> 00:43:24,930 then we can use through this practice. 737 00:43:24,940 --> 00:43:26,070 So. You've inspired me. 738 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,230 I'm going to do that with my family. 739 00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:31,330 Yeah, this one, I think it's like for a family. 740 00:43:31,420 --> 00:43:33,590 This is the one that I was, I was picturing. 741 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:38,290 Hey, what a great way to start to pass on some traditions to 742 00:43:38,300 --> 00:43:42,740 your kids and start to create some memories with them that I 743 00:43:42,750 --> 00:43:47,750 remember every year before it was even Christmas, you know, we 744 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:54,530 made these ugly candles and then recited some prayers together. 745 00:43:55,290 --> 00:43:58,500 Uh, that's what I'm looking forward to in this practice is, 746 00:43:58,870 --> 00:44:03,980 uh, yeah. The, the kind of messiness of 747 00:44:03,990 --> 00:44:05,820 doing this as a family. Yeah. 748 00:44:06,250 --> 00:44:11,300 Together with other people kind of sounds to me like a good way 749 00:44:11,430 --> 00:44:15,760 to prepare for, for Advent. So I would say if you have kids 750 00:44:15,770 --> 00:44:17,840 and you're trying to find something to do with them or 751 00:44:17,850 --> 00:44:21,650 grandkids and you'd like something to do with them, this 752 00:44:21,660 --> 00:44:25,630 is the one that that I, I really think you could have some fun 753 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:26,800 with. Absolutely. 754 00:44:26,850 --> 00:44:30,120 Yeah. So then I think the the last 755 00:44:30,130 --> 00:44:35,640 piece is about that one. Commit to doing it on a day. 756 00:44:35,650 --> 00:44:39,650 I think we will. We'll do Sunday, you know, we 757 00:44:39,660 --> 00:44:42,110 might there's there's an argument to be made like if you 758 00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:46,270 do a Sabbath practice kind of Friday to Saturday, incorporate 759 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:53,150 this into that and then use a prayer to pray and just make it 760 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:54,410 simple. It doesn't need to be 761 00:44:54,420 --> 00:44:58,690 complicated, but read the story of Jesus's birth, kind of break 762 00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:04,350 it up into four, four or five chunks and say a prayer together 763 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,940 as a family. Use it as a time to reflect on 764 00:45:06,950 --> 00:45:12,070 your day. We ask our kids what's not like 765 00:45:12,230 --> 00:45:14,650 a OHT? What's something that went 766 00:45:14,660 --> 00:45:17,620 really well today? What's something that really did 767 00:45:17,630 --> 00:45:19,990 not go well? And did you see God doing 768 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,160 something? Hmm. 769 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:25,480 So there's three kind of three simple questions to ask around 770 00:45:25,490 --> 00:45:28,790 the table as you do something like this, So. 771 00:45:29,030 --> 00:45:33,820 This is awesome I I'm excited for what God is going to do in 772 00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:38,940 our church in this season. It just feels the the 773 00:45:39,110 --> 00:45:43,460 anticipation for me is is increasing more than other 774 00:45:43,470 --> 00:45:44,840 years. I would say it's always a 775 00:45:44,850 --> 00:45:47,000 beautiful season. It's always a wonderful time, 776 00:45:47,070 --> 00:45:51,430 but for I think just as we, as we bring this level of 777 00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:56,160 intentionality to not just the, the services, which are always 778 00:45:56,170 --> 00:46:00,250 wonderful as well, but just what God is doing throughout the week 779 00:46:00,260 --> 00:46:02,370 in our lives. And some of the practices that 780 00:46:02,380 --> 00:46:05,620 we're building in that are going to safeguard against, you know, 781 00:46:05,630 --> 00:46:08,390 cause it's one thing we always say almost every Christmas, we 782 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,390 always talk about, well, like that. 783 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,670 Don't be so in a hurry. Like don't like slow down, savor 784 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,800 the moment. Like, but this gets at like 785 00:46:17,810 --> 00:46:21,400 these these are practical, actual things you can do to make 786 00:46:21,410 --> 00:46:24,020 that happen rather than just this nebulous sense of just 787 00:46:24,090 --> 00:46:27,320 don't give in to the consumerism and business. 788 00:46:27,370 --> 00:46:33,870 So I do hope that we as a as a church by and large take 789 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:38,710 advantage of this opportunity and and to enter in well. 790 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,590 Hmm. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 791 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,880 That's my prayer as well is, you know, I got tired of not tired, 792 00:46:44,890 --> 00:46:47,870 but like you get tired of in your own life saying I'm going 793 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:52,300 to slow down and I'm going to ever pay more attention and 794 00:46:52,650 --> 00:46:57,890 instead go, alright, what do I need to do to push against the 795 00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:00,900 hurriedness? Yeah, or the business or all of 796 00:47:00,910 --> 00:47:03,420 these things. It really is, you know, just 797 00:47:03,470 --> 00:47:05,260 jump forward. I think we'll do a similar thing 798 00:47:05,270 --> 00:47:12,000 around Easter where we talk about intentionally practicing 799 00:47:12,010 --> 00:47:15,110 our way toward these moments. So we, hey, we're praying for 800 00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,500 you and I hope you can hear that and know that. 801 00:47:18,510 --> 00:47:23,820 And also we'd love to hear some of your stories of how you 802 00:47:23,870 --> 00:47:27,770 implemented these practices and what you saw God do on the other 803 00:47:27,780 --> 00:47:29,580 side of Christmas. So. 804 00:47:29,590 --> 00:47:32,660 In fact, maybe that'd be a good thing like to send in like to 805 00:47:32,670 --> 00:47:36,220 the questions at coreychurch.org, like just like 806 00:47:36,230 --> 00:47:38,610 send us some of what God has been saying and doing your life. 807 00:47:38,620 --> 00:47:42,270 So does not be a question, just like share what you're noticing 808 00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,450 and seeing SO. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 809 00:47:44,460 --> 00:47:48,190 So we'd love to hear from you and we will see you in the next 810 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:48,730 episode.