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to earth and Peyton has something to

2:12

today So. I.

2:21

Will never forget this time. My husband

2:23

and I were in this tiny little country

2:26

a full than yeah and we were

2:28

going to the Julian out He and

2:30

we had rented a car. And.

2:32

Remember driving through these.

2:35

Crazy. Mountains at very high speeds because there

2:37

was probably like is good out of on or something.

2:39

I have every right over. There are a lot of

2:41

retards around and we felt like we were driving fast

2:43

but everyone was passing us. On this mountaintops, that's

2:46

not really the point. The point is. The.

2:48

Water was so crystal clear and the

2:50

mountains were so tall and there was

2:52

snow peaks and yet than there was

2:54

like less vegetation at the bottom and

2:56

it was one of the most. It

3:00

while. Days of my life of

3:02

both feeling like is this real I feel as

3:04

if even my life among really here. Strong the

3:07

load. Vo. Had

3:09

to do some really incredible stuff I

3:11

will never forget that day. Of

3:14

just how nuts it was

3:16

to see guide. And.

3:18

How incredible he is. And yet and and

3:20

as a small I was, I felt so

3:23

small. While me and

3:25

I have the same feelings out of my favorite a

3:27

lot of Israel and I'm. Your

3:29

girl, he was the club, but Iowa

3:32

does not come to our comfort with

3:34

as much as I assume bears something

3:36

about now. he's that just. A

3:38

good waterfalls Yeah yeah I mean I was

3:41

pretty great iraq know I feel it's you

3:43

and hide their been moments. Are

3:45

Sky The sky? I'm a guy. We have

3:47

more Sars than anyone else. I swear it.

3:49

I swear we don't. And I mean, I

3:51

can be caught in my backyard or even

3:53

just on a trail. Like literally just staring

3:55

at a flower. And I'm I just can't.

3:57

You know that the color is still viable?

4:00

There's like little intricate patterns

4:02

inside. The other day

4:04

I actually was gifted some roses and I

4:07

didn't even know like that this variety

4:09

of rose existed but I was just sitting in the

4:11

kitchen and I just kept like peeling back the rose

4:13

petals, the rose petals and they just went on and

4:15

on and on and there was like it

4:17

felt like hundreds of layers of petals

4:19

and then inside there's like the most

4:22

gorgeous little center. It's

4:24

like orange and it's got all this you

4:26

know pattern in it and I was like

4:28

what in the world like God is so

4:31

cool that he makes something like this

4:34

and for why? For why? That

4:36

is the question. For why? You're

4:38

like I mean you just know he's just showing off

4:41

you know? You just know he's just like you know

4:43

look at look at this is a tiny little bit

4:45

of what I can do. So

4:48

what we are talking about today is

4:50

kind of that awe feeling we get

4:52

when we see something in creation when

4:54

we see something that God created and

4:56

it just stops us in our

4:58

tracks and it takes our breath away and

5:00

we feel like this is so important to

5:03

the greater series that we're talking about which

5:05

is the ways that we can kind of

5:07

feel like we've lost ourselves after we

5:09

become moms and you know I think in

5:11

that new motherhood stage whether you've

5:13

just got one baby or maybe you've got a

5:15

toddler and a preschooler and a baby and all

5:18

these different things is you're just kind of so

5:21

focused on what's right in front of you and so

5:24

having to just be reactionary and put out

5:26

one fire and then another fire and it

5:28

can feel like your whole day is just

5:31

wiping counters and wiping up spit up and

5:33

you know stepping on crackers that were spilled

5:36

on the floor and you know there's whining

5:38

there's tantrums and we can

5:40

kind of lose this sense that

5:42

we are part of something spectacular

5:44

and magnificent and great and that

5:46

there is all this beauty not

5:48

only in what we're experiencing but

5:50

like beyond what we're experiencing too

5:52

and so we feel like awe is

5:54

one of those ways that we kind of recapture

5:57

that. Yeah and I'm betting that everyone

5:59

can probably draw. Mine a moment like my

6:01

still have any an experience where they were

6:03

just dumbfounded by how incredible God was the

6:05

whistle on. Talk about these ways to cultivate

6:08

little things like Emily's Rose that doesn't a

6:10

regular lives as Mom's how do we cultivate

6:12

obvious us while we can be cultivated. It

6:14

is not something that you have to just

6:17

get dropped on you because suddenly you're in

6:19

the right place at the right times but

6:21

it is something that we can actually practice.

6:23

And what was really interesting is that this

6:25

the ceiling of I is of it's kind

6:28

of her describe right like what is. Or

6:30

what we can on know it when

6:32

you're in it, but describe what is

6:35

as appealing as and it's interesting because

6:37

it's something that scientists. Pushes.

6:39

You to like feel like you're transcending

6:41

your understanding of the world that like

6:43

suddenly it's been pushed out how you

6:46

understand the world and there's this also

6:48

like a bit of mystery I think

6:50

that hands with that write something that

6:52

feels like like you said it's bigger

6:55

than yourself and you see something I

6:57

think especially berlin time with experience has

6:59

more like a virtue by it. Even

7:02

now science like you to listen to tons

7:04

a podcast now about the science of ah

7:06

and they're taking this feeling as like a

7:08

very serious thing that humans need. Of

7:10

course I feel like, you know, The

7:12

modern scientific broadcasters are always behind what

7:15

got his are. Say

7:17

oh I fully You know

7:19

it feels so. You. Know

7:22

some people would describe as

7:24

transcend danger, existential or even

7:26

spiritual because it's are heard

7:28

and saw, responding to the

7:31

God of the universe and

7:33

having almost our bras caught

7:35

by. You know who he

7:37

is and how incredible and

7:39

big and it'll unfathomable. Unfathomable

7:42

are. ha Unfathomable He is.

7:44

So where do you see

7:46

this in scripture? I mean,

7:48

I know that like. God

7:51

is all over scripture in there so many incredible

7:53

big epic moments that where do we actually see

7:56

our and bible? I think one of the things

7:58

that we have to first do with. The

8:00

meaning of I is kind of separate it

8:02

from our cultural moment and seen I like

8:04

to go out as think of the word

8:06

awesome a similar like I'm in awe. It's

8:08

our son about like the new line of

8:10

sees. as the or you know, some tv show or the

8:12

new I phone or something. Like that. But historically

8:14

the meaning of I and biblically it

8:17

translates more into fright are terrorists And

8:19

I think if you even look at

8:21

the Webster definition, it's as as a

8:23

feeling of reverential respect mix with fear

8:25

or wonder. So when we look at

8:28

it and scripture, ah has to have

8:30

two main components. A has to have

8:32

a trembling so coming from being and

8:34

the presence of something much bigger than

8:36

us. God. And

8:38

assassination So that feeling of being

8:41

astonished or dumbfounded. And so in

8:43

in scripture it's often translated actually

8:45

as the Earth's you might find

8:47

our or awesome event. Depending.

8:49

On your translations of or even filled with I

8:51

think that's one thing to leave lock. This is

8:54

what happens to my brain when I start to

8:56

think about like billions of galaxies and you look

8:58

up in the sky and you're thinking about it

9:00

and you're like and it goes on forever. But

9:02

where does that and when I haven't yet in

9:04

on forever send another said in that. And

9:07

and and the Terrified. And like my

9:09

brain is hurt he died and you're just

9:11

like I can think about it didn't work

9:13

of art. Django yes in you know that

9:15

you've no control frankly I totally out of

9:17

control of and that never we see an

9:19

old has met. You know it's usually when

9:22

people were reflecting on god or gods attributes

9:24

and when they were confronted even with god's

9:26

presence. So as it has three got appearing

9:28

to Moses in the burning bush I a

9:30

a six five when I say i saw

9:32

the lord number his like glory fills the

9:34

temple or his role where was sick of

9:37

us some one nineteen. Steve It. Sucks.

9:39

it's hard about os. He talks

9:41

and in one eighteen years of my

9:43

flesh, symbols and fear of you I

9:45

stand in awe of your laws or

9:47

like about that. you know it's in

9:50

there. Were there talking about Lord I

9:52

stand in awe of your deeds. South

9:54

Old Testament is very like classic.is big

9:56

and like we are small. Blown.

9:59

You know, The time. And.

10:01

A New Testaments in a really it's

10:03

almost always describes people's reactions to either.

10:05

Cheese is like work and all. These

10:08

incredible miracles. I'm. Or to

10:10

the works of Died. So after Jesus ascended

10:12

I'm in a week. We know that the

10:14

Holy Spirit came down. So there's a lot

10:16

of examples on things like when Jesus raise

10:19

the widows, sign us him, look these scripts

10:21

or vs up I don't wanna. I

10:24

don't have is that they bore us

10:26

that this is I thought that the

10:28

line or inducing raising the would assign

10:30

the it's as they were filled with

10:32

Ah and praise God Axe to the

10:34

outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the

10:36

early church everyone was filled with Ah

10:38

at the many wonders of the signs

10:40

performed by the apostles Matthew. seventeen the

10:42

disciples were cook terrified after the transfiguration

10:44

which also kind of to translate to

10:46

ah or sixteen the women trembling. And

10:49

bewildered after they discovered empty tomb and saw

10:51

the angels south. Print. Trembling bewildered

10:53

those are often words that can also

10:55

be translated as off Boston and I

10:58

have for us is Acts Nine were

11:00

se Jesus on the Damascus Rose and

11:02

has that. Incredible. Meaningful.

11:05

Interaction with him there. so. And

11:07

all these examples, it's something that I

11:09

think it's important. It's more than just

11:11

emotional. People. In the

11:13

Bible when they experienced God and

11:16

experience the feeling of ah. They.

11:19

Would start to think about god they

11:21

would contemplate him the works in some

11:23

mission to as well. They were humble

11:26

the fall flat on their faith yeah

11:28

it's not as I thought you know

11:30

a a much more to say though

11:32

there was like a difference there was

11:35

an understanding of let his power his

11:37

made his majesty was of god's work

11:39

in god's plans and so. I.

11:42

Think that that is something that we gotta

11:44

kinda like separate. Out from how we

11:46

feel about really awesome technology and are

11:48

awesome Got those are very different. and

11:51

really away all of these biblical

11:53

examples are silliness is that god

11:55

has a purpose to us experiencing

11:58

are like there is a

12:00

function in it and one

12:02

of those things is that it can

12:04

develop I think a real posture of

12:07

thinkfulness and gratitude. In Luke

12:09

7 it says everyone when they saw

12:11

what Jesus Christ is doing were filled

12:14

with awe and they praised God, right?

12:16

Because our response

12:18

to something amazing

12:20

and beautiful and

12:22

incomprehensible should be an overflow

12:28

of thanksgiving for what that is.

12:30

And I also think that you

12:32

were mentioning this earlier, it gives

12:35

us a sense of smallness and

12:37

humbleness when we realize who

12:39

we are and where we fit in

12:41

the grand scheme of things and how

12:43

little we deserve all the good things

12:46

that God has given us. And so

12:48

then whenever we are praising him

12:51

for something incredible that he's done

12:53

or something that we just can't

12:55

possibly understand and it's so magnificent

12:57

and beyond us, that gratitude is

13:00

coming from a place that says

13:03

this is undeserved and I

13:06

don't deserve to be feeling this or

13:08

experiencing or seeing this or even bringing

13:10

in the presence of God. So I

13:12

love that humility piece that comes in

13:14

with awe as well. Awe

13:17

can foster so many things, even

13:19

science, you know you're talking about

13:21

humility, science shows that

13:24

people who experience awe tend to be

13:26

more altruistic and that they

13:28

do more things like volunteering and

13:30

helping and assisting people showing hospitality.

13:32

So there is a just an

13:35

aspect that I

13:37

think reminds us like you said

13:39

that that like this isn't all about us

13:41

and I think that that's kind of

13:44

this incredible piece to it and it

13:46

also helps us to be more industrious,

13:48

more purposeful, more creative. I mean again

13:51

there's like there's science to back this

13:53

up but then like I think our own life experience

13:55

proves this time and time again to be true that

13:57

when we Experience awe and you see this.

14:00

Two billion. He. Of Dopa mean

14:02

head and com and I'm sure our

14:04

but suddenly I think that were more

14:06

industry us with with the article or

14:08

parties or on with our hospitality or

14:10

at our work and there's a mode

14:12

of eating aspect I think to our

14:14

to say I want to work hard

14:16

and do well at the things that

14:18

I'm doing isn't It's interesting to to

14:20

think about how it can unify us

14:22

with other people when we have a

14:24

mutual experience have been amazed at some

14:27

famous god has done are created and

14:29

I don't think about some in our

14:31

own family. When our

14:33

son who did not walk for. Many

14:35

many years like. When. He took his

14:37

first independent steps in the house and my

14:39

husband and I were there and our kids

14:41

were there and we all just freaked out

14:43

of like it was it. It wasn't like

14:45

the miracle that you think of in the

14:47

bible where it was like only man and

14:49

and suddenly he's jumps up and get a

14:51

designer and walk that it was like this.

14:54

Climax. Of all these years of

14:56

therapy and prayers and like to see him

14:59

do that. But. It it's

15:01

just we all had that experience together and

15:03

we still talk about that. We still are

15:05

like member that day and Rember was going

15:07

on and and it was like this unifying

15:10

thing for a family and a moment of

15:12

collective worship. And so I think it's whether

15:14

it's in response to something like that where

15:16

you get to kind of like a witness

15:19

a miracle or it's going on him leave

15:21

the keys and and been at a national

15:23

park and all standing over the same outlook

15:25

there is something that needs our hearts together,

15:28

the core memory. Core memory on

15:30

lot of on. Another

15:32

one, and this one probably particularly feels very

15:34

meaningful to me, just with kind of. My

15:36

journey was struggling with some doubt that I've

15:38

been fairly. Public about this?

15:41

Ah, actually. Even deepens

15:43

our faith with God and we we can look at

15:45

that biblically and of those examples we talked about were

15:47

so many people came to the face when. They experienced

15:49

us are like that thing about saw

15:51

in his conversion to Paul. and

15:53

that happened because i'm an experience of

15:56

on the damascus road and i think

15:58

that that is something that that for

16:00

me, the more that

16:02

I can feel small and the more that I

16:04

can feel and remember

16:06

that I did

16:08

nothing to create this life or this earth

16:11

or this world, it

16:13

reminds me that there is

16:15

a bigger, intelligent God at work in this world.

16:17

And so even if it's, you know, you may

16:19

doubt that God is loving, you may doubt that

16:22

he is kind, you may doubt that he even

16:24

exists. But with all of those

16:26

things, you can't help but look at a beautiful

16:28

sunset and think, oh, that God doesn't

16:30

have love in him, you know? And so there are

16:32

little things I think that we can take us from

16:35

when we experience awe that helps spur us on

16:37

in the face. And

16:40

you found this really interesting fact that awe

16:42

can actually help our health too. What

16:45

sickness is this winter? Isn't it kind of wild? Like what?

16:48

It's so wild. I

16:51

found this kind of wild study

16:53

that's sort of hard to talk about because it

16:55

uses lots of, you know,

16:57

technical words, technical language. But

16:59

essentially, these researchers found that

17:02

awe has been linked to

17:04

lowering your levels of inflammation. And so

17:06

it helps your overall health. And

17:09

we'll just link the setting to show notes because

17:11

it's pretty technical. But essentially,

17:14

awe was the strongest predictor of

17:16

lowering that inflammation and even stronger

17:18

than other positive emotions like love

17:21

and joy. So I thought that was just super

17:23

wild. And even when you were talking about, you

17:25

know, your family's experience of awe, that's another

17:27

kind of weird study that I came across

17:30

where it talked about when

17:32

you experience awe with other people,

17:34

well, your breathing and your heartbeats

17:36

start to regulate and match one

17:38

another, which is just crazy

17:40

to me. And so that's part of like,

17:43

why it's a core memory, why you lock

17:45

that in because there's something about that that

17:47

really does humans are

17:49

experiencing this transcendent feeling and suddenly

17:52

like your bodies even start to

17:55

move in the same way. Yeah, it's crazy

17:57

that was not crazy. It actually makes

17:59

a lot of sense. because God would

18:01

do that, of designing us to

18:03

biologically respond to Him. And

18:07

that there is this sense of

18:09

calming down that happens in our

18:11

hearts when we recognize who

18:14

He is, right? I mean, there's

18:17

that cheesy saying we've all heard, like,

18:19

there's a God-shaped hole in your heart.

18:22

And yet, this is almost the... That's

18:24

a good point. Super practical version of

18:27

this, of like, our

18:29

bodies were made to respond

18:31

to God. And like, we

18:33

actually calm down and

18:35

like, inflammation reduces and like, our breathing

18:37

slows, like, all of those different things,

18:39

the dopamine hits. And really, that's just

18:41

us, you know, responding

18:44

to our Creator, because we love Him so

18:46

much. You've got that God-shaped hole in your

18:48

heart. There's probably

18:50

something really theologically wrong about this. I kind

18:52

of love it. I love it. We're going to take it for

18:54

today. Okay, so anyways, all of

18:56

that is just to say that, like,

18:59

as women who are Christians, who are

19:01

following the Lord, this is something we

19:03

think we can tend to lose in

19:05

motherhood. We lose a little bit of

19:07

sight of it. We're not cultivating it.

19:09

We're not really thinking about it. I'm

19:12

not waking up at 11 o'clock to

19:14

go out and look at the stars. Are you

19:16

Laura? I actually have before. I'm sorry. You probably

19:18

have before, but on a regular basis. But get

19:20

that star up on your iPhone. It's awesome. But

19:22

yes, not on a regular basis. You bet. We

19:24

don't tend to make time for this or even

19:27

really to sit and be in awe of what

19:29

God has done in our lives through

19:31

Christ. I sometimes have that feeling of

19:33

awe when I just look back over

19:35

my past and I think about my

19:37

testimony and I think about where I

19:40

would be today apart from Christ. Even

19:42

that type of meditation and thinking on

19:44

those things brings my heart to that

19:46

place of awe. We want

19:48

to talk about some practical ways that

19:50

we can cultivate this in our lives

19:53

in the midst of all

19:55

the things our kids need to get to on the calendar, the laundry

19:57

that needs to be. be

20:00

folded, the meals that need

20:02

to be made. We think it is

20:04

still possible to cultivate this even in

20:06

the midst of that. Well, yeah, and

20:08

even before we get to how, I

20:10

think it's important that we even point

20:13

back to the fact that biblically it

20:15

says believers are encouraged to cultivate these

20:17

things. We can look at Isaiah 29.9

20:19

that believers are encouraged to be stunned

20:21

and amazed. In Job

20:23

37.14, God says, stop and

20:26

consider my wonders. And so

20:28

there are definitely, and

20:30

David, we can just go to him all

20:32

the time. He's constantly modeling that for us.

20:35

And so I think it's important to see

20:37

that it's actually like a spiritual practice to

20:39

do this. And it's not just for funsies.

20:41

Like we're doing this because this

20:43

is a way like you're saying that I think

20:45

we can experience God in the everyday. And I

20:47

think that's like the cry of every mom's heart,

20:49

right? It's like, God, more of you, more of

20:52

you help me. And that is

20:54

one way that I think when we stop

20:56

and say, I want to cultivate this off

20:58

feeling, it's really saying I want to cultivate

21:00

my relationship with you, Lord, because I want to

21:02

experience you. And so what's really cool

21:05

is like there's a million ways to do this.

21:07

I mean, we're going to list a handful here

21:09

for everybody, but there's probably so many more. So

21:12

the first one we'll just start out with is art. And

21:15

my dad's an artist or was an artist for a

21:17

long time. And I grew up around a lot of

21:19

art. And he certainly taught

21:21

me he took us to all these like art

21:23

museums all the time. And sure, I

21:25

didn't value them for a while. But at other times I

21:27

did as I got older. And

21:29

I think there's an element sometimes of

21:32

standing before a piece of art or like you

21:34

can even see tons of us on Instagram these

21:36

days. Yeah, go on Instagram. You see those colored

21:38

pencil drawings that look like a real picture. Okay,

21:40

we're going to zoom in. I'm listening. They zoom

21:42

in really close. And you see they're like, yes,

21:44

same like my kids colored pencils. Like you're watching

21:46

them create the art. Yes. Yeah. And then at

21:48

the end, you know, they put the art up

21:50

and it looks like a photograph. Like I haven't

21:52

that accurate. Well, it's mind blowing. I haven't seen.

21:54

Okay. Okay. Well, I was going to talk

21:56

about like the Chicago Art Institute. Yeah. The

22:01

point stands, regardless, there

22:03

is an element that

22:05

I think you can see art that

22:07

is so beautiful that it almost violates

22:10

your expectations. That's kind of what you're saying, right? Your

22:12

expectation is that it looks like a photograph. No one

22:14

can possibly do that. And yet, they

22:16

can. And so I think there's something

22:19

in that where art can compel you to see

22:21

something in a new light. It

22:23

can compel you to want to learn more about a subject matter.

22:26

You can be mesmerized and transfixed by how

22:28

they're creating it or even just gazing

22:30

at it for a long time. And that

22:32

can really induce awe. Another

22:35

one is music. You

22:37

know, certainly we probably all had that

22:39

feeling of like getting chilled. I love

22:41

it. I love it. Yeah. Hearing

22:44

up and like you don't even know why it's happening to

22:46

you, but you're listening to a song. It just like grabs

22:48

you from your stomach. You know, it's

22:50

funny because I'm not like a big country

22:52

music person, but like my husband likes country

22:54

music. And he loves

22:57

like those songs that are just

22:59

ridiculous and like sappy that'll be

23:01

about like a daughter and then

23:03

she's like a baby and then she's older. Oh my gosh.

23:06

I didn't know that about my brother. No,

23:08

no. I mean, and I don't know if it's kind of

23:10

like funny or not, but he just loves them. And

23:13

I roll to know and I'm like, I already know what's going

23:15

to happen in this song. I'm like, the dog's going to come

23:17

back around at the end and the daughter, you know, whatever. I'm

23:19

like, I could write this. But there was

23:22

this one time we were driving, I think we were leaving

23:24

your house and we were in the car and the song

23:26

came on. He was like, oh, this is a good one.

23:29

And also I know where I just

23:31

like uncontrollably started like sappy and

23:33

it was like the song like raps

23:35

me in a right time, right song.

23:38

Like there's something to the right time. But

23:43

you know, it's like music can just like

23:46

pull that out of view. And

23:49

I love even listening to like

23:51

scores or pieces of music that are

23:54

set across like a

23:56

whole movie or a whole musical,

23:58

because often like the. composer has

24:00

done some incredible things where if you start

24:02

to listen closely you can hear melodies

24:05

repeated or things called back or hey this

24:07

is a theme for this character and every

24:10

time they're on the screen their theme plays

24:12

in the background like it's just so complex.

24:14

I mean who you don't notice until you

24:16

try to notice. Yeah yeah yeah okay

24:19

writing I mean I think that this is

24:21

something that hopefully everyone's experienced where they've read

24:23

some words and they're like that was so

24:25

beautiful and it compels you to worship or

24:28

it compels you to think about something in

24:30

a new way. Maybe it

24:32

puts words to something that

24:34

you've always felt but never been able to articulate

24:36

and so I think poetry does that for me

24:38

it's one of the reasons why I want to

24:40

write that I want to hopefully do that for

24:43

other people but that is something that I have

24:45

always I'll get chills when I read just beautiful

24:47

words. Of course we've already talked about

24:49

this but it's worth saying again like get

24:51

out in nature like if you want to be

24:54

in awe of God just

24:56

spend some time outside start looking

24:58

around I mean everything from

25:00

being amazed at the the creatures that

25:02

he created to again the flowers

25:04

or the trees or just

25:07

even being able to go on a trip

25:09

somewhere if that's you know take some time

25:11

to go listen to the ocean and actually

25:13

experience it. I think that that

25:15

it helps to not just

25:17

even be outside but to intentionally think

25:19

to yourself I'm going to turn

25:21

the podcast off I'm going to turn the music

25:23

off I'm going to turn the boxer messages off

25:26

and I have had so many walks

25:28

that have been refreshing to me because

25:30

I simply was silent and I literally

25:33

was just looking at creation

25:35

and it is so refreshing.

25:39

And then even like other times I don't

25:41

know I feel like I hope everyone's

25:43

had this experience where it's just an

25:46

ordinary moment but it's almost like you

25:48

have this wild out-of-body experience and you're

25:50

just like whoa everything

25:52

in this life is so impossible and

25:55

it's so precious and yeah it's also

25:57

like wildly intentional and full of blessing.

26:00

And I think that it could be like seeing

26:02

our children playing like with our husband in the

26:04

living room or it can be just like Looking

26:07

usually looking at people I feel like it's not just

26:09

like looking at my house It's something

26:12

where there are human beings in

26:14

my home Like I remember at my wedding someone gave

26:16

us the advice to step back and go to the

26:18

very back of the wedding at the reception And just

26:20

look at all the people who love you and are

26:22

celebrating you and do it for like two minutes, you

26:24

know And that was such great advice for my wedding

26:27

because I now have that mental picture of all

26:29

these people just laughing and spending

26:31

time and eating and celebrating and I think

26:33

that we can cultivate those moments by stepping

26:35

back for just a second and thinking Oh

26:38

like this is such an incredible life that

26:40

I get to have like my husband Loves

26:43

my kids. He plays with them so well. My

26:45

kids play together So all my kids have great

26:47

friends like whatever it is that you're viewing to

26:49

take that moment to step back And I remember

26:51

even for me as a tangible example. This is

26:53

a little bit different but I

26:55

remember I was like kind of struggling to trust God

26:57

and to feel like he was Worthy

27:00

of my trust, you know, I was kind of grumbling around

27:02

I've been praying for like a week or two about it

27:04

And finally I kind of was like just praying

27:07

like God I want to trust you but it can't

27:09

feel like you can't and then throughout the course of

27:11

the day It was wild

27:13

because suddenly I was reading like in my

27:15

my book. There was something about trusting

27:18

God and then I remember like one of my

27:20

kids was like Well, you just got to trust

27:22

God and then I turned on like a podcast

27:24

and it was randomly I mean we just phrases

27:26

it wasn't like the podcast was about trusting God

27:28

But it was like I heard that phrase and

27:30

read that phrase I did five six times in

27:32

a day and I remember literally being like, okay,

27:34

Lord gotcha. Yeah And

27:37

but it was this moment where I felt off like

27:39

God cared enough to like Who

27:42

is my soul with making sure that message got to

27:44

me this truth that he says over and over to

27:47

me But I usually don't have ears to hear and

27:49

then there was just this one day where he made

27:51

it very clear like knock it off You can trust

27:53

me. I'm gonna make sure you hear this a hundred times Well,

27:57

hopefully as you've listened today. You

28:00

have been inspired to try to

28:02

cultivate that the ceiling of on

28:04

your life and we really feel

28:07

like. This. Is something that

28:09

helps us. Orbit. Our hearts

28:11

and our lives around died which is

28:13

what this whole series is talking about.

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Rate: We're not here to only be

28:17

responsive to and reacting to and are

28:19

being ourselves. the rounds on or motherhood

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or around or to do list that

28:24

day or around wherever thing and as

28:26

they feel like we actually have to

28:28

do. right? We want to be remembering

28:30

that were part of something sicker, were

28:32

part of a grander stories and and

28:35

when we experience I. Hang

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as I am not assistance. From other

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