WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:04.902 [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to Blessed and Boston, presented by Anchor DeMedia. 00:05.523 --> 00:11.557 [SPEAKER_00]: In entrepreneurship podcasts for Christians, all about how to make God the CEO of your business. 00:12.178 --> 00:19.575 [SPEAKER_00]: Get ready to be inspired, challenged, but well equipped to live and build your destiny, his way. 00:27.655 --> 00:31.781 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of the Blessed Embossed Podcast. 00:31.801 --> 00:35.406 [SPEAKER_00]: I am so excited for us to hop into our next book club pick. 00:35.946 --> 00:40.152 [SPEAKER_00]: It's called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer. 00:40.933 --> 00:44.077 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll put the link in the show notes for you so you can grab your copy. 00:44.618 --> 00:55.553 [SPEAKER_00]: I read this book originally a couple of years ago, and I was going back and forth in my head about what our next book club pick was going to be, and we landed on this one. 00:55.533 --> 01:06.536 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have to tell you it's so timely to revisit this book, like I'm not just reading this for the podcast, but I'm reading this for myself. 01:06.556 --> 01:15.415 [SPEAKER_00]: And initially I was going to push this back a couple of weeks because I had like midterms and things going on and I was like, I need to read these law books. 01:15.395 --> 01:31.075 [SPEAKER_00]: And not any other books, but I started reading it for myself just because I felt like I needed that reminder because I felt myself getting into a hurried state and kind of going into some bad habits of busyness. 01:31.055 --> 01:39.827 [SPEAKER_00]: and I wanted to address it by just going ahead and starting to read the book now to remind myself of the dangers of going down that path. 01:39.947 --> 01:46.295 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, let me go ahead and start reading it now and we will get started with it now here on the podcast. 01:46.736 --> 01:49.840 [SPEAKER_00]: For those of you who have never heard it as book before, 01:49.820 --> 02:02.398 [SPEAKER_00]: This book is a national bestseller with over 1 million copies sold, is described as a compelling, emotional and spiritual case against hurried in the favor of a slower, simpler way of life. 02:03.540 --> 02:08.267 [SPEAKER_00]: Reviewers say that it is a prophetic, practical, and profoundly life-giving. 02:08.808 --> 02:14.215 [SPEAKER_00]: They say it provides a way forward that creates hope, hunger, and a vision of a beautiful life. 02:14.676 --> 02:17.380 [SPEAKER_00]: I consider this a required reading. 02:17.883 --> 02:19.970 [SPEAKER_00]: The description says, who am I becoming? 02:20.572 --> 02:24.304 [SPEAKER_00]: That was the question nagging pastor in author John Markcomer. 02:24.926 --> 02:26.712 [SPEAKER_00]: Outwardly, he appears successful. 02:26.877 --> 02:28.619 [SPEAKER_00]: but inwardly things weren't pretty. 02:29.040 --> 02:32.544 [SPEAKER_00]: So he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance and heard these words. 02:33.886 --> 02:36.529 [SPEAKER_00]: Rooflessly eliminate hurry from your life. 02:37.190 --> 02:39.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Hurry is the great enemy of a spiritual life. 02:40.774 --> 02:46.582 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't the response that he expected, but it was and continues to be the answer that he needs. 02:47.162 --> 02:50.927 [SPEAKER_00]: Too often we treat the symptoms of toxicity in our modern world, 02:50.907 --> 02:59.284 [SPEAKER_00]: instead of trying to pinpoint the cause, a growing number of voices are pointing at heri or busyness as a root of much evil. 02:59.946 --> 03:08.443 [SPEAKER_00]: Within the pages of this book you'll find a fascinating roadmap to staying emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of a modern world. 03:09.318 --> 03:18.468 [SPEAKER_00]: For me, personally, one of the reasons I loved this book so much is because I find myself often seeking to adjust pace. 03:18.889 --> 03:20.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all hear me talk about this all the time. 03:20.550 --> 03:33.165 [SPEAKER_00]: I call her my inner hustler, who wants to go, who has this drive, who is an achiever, she gets things done, and she's useful in that she has contributed to my success. 03:33.485 --> 03:35.427 [SPEAKER_00]: She's contributed to me, 03:35.407 --> 03:45.880 [SPEAKER_00]: having such a beautiful life with the things that we built and accomplished and grown and all the things so that drive that I have, she's useful and she's contributed greatly. 03:46.441 --> 03:53.029 [SPEAKER_00]: However, she can't be in the driver's seat because if she's in the driver's seat, we get into a hurried state. 03:53.469 --> 04:02.140 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I found myself over the last few years talking about a pace and trying to slow my pace down and I've talked about 04:02.120 --> 04:09.893 [SPEAKER_00]: where I'm in the Bible and I'm reading Paul talk about contentment and how content he is, whether he has a little or he has a lot. 04:10.233 --> 04:11.014 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter. 04:11.075 --> 04:15.201 [SPEAKER_00]: He's content and I'm like, God, I want that same level of contentment. 04:15.902 --> 04:17.004 [SPEAKER_00]: How do I operate? 04:17.064 --> 04:20.550 [SPEAKER_00]: How do I maintain truth to who I am? 04:20.530 --> 04:22.752 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to stop being ambitious. 04:22.853 --> 04:24.474 [SPEAKER_00]: I never don't even think that's possible. 04:24.514 --> 04:27.197 [SPEAKER_00]: I never will not be a go-getter. 04:27.217 --> 04:29.260 [SPEAKER_00]: I will never not be ambitious. 04:29.320 --> 04:31.662 [SPEAKER_00]: I will never not have a great work ethic. 04:31.682 --> 04:33.865 [SPEAKER_00]: These things are not inherently bad. 04:34.305 --> 04:38.450 [SPEAKER_00]: And they make me who I am in a lot of sense, but that's not all of who I am. 04:38.850 --> 04:47.820 [SPEAKER_00]: So how do I maintain the stillness, the pace of grace, keeping in step with the spirit, the calmness and the peace that comes along with it, 04:48.256 --> 04:58.216 [SPEAKER_00]: while not totally disregarding this driven person that I am, and it's a tough tug of war sometimes. 04:58.858 --> 05:08.357 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you are in a cheever and you're the one that people don't have to worry about and you get things done, it's easy for you to go unaccount it for. 05:08.337 --> 05:15.488 [SPEAKER_00]: is easy for you to get caught up in the busyness and to get to this unhealthy space that we're going to talk about in a second. 05:15.989 --> 05:21.859 [SPEAKER_00]: It's easy for that to happen because nobody sees you fully to be able to help real you back in. 05:22.460 --> 05:23.862 [SPEAKER_00]: They see your accomplishments. 05:24.322 --> 05:25.945 [SPEAKER_00]: They see what you can do for them. 05:26.506 --> 05:30.312 [SPEAKER_00]: They see that you got it all together, air quotes. 05:30.292 --> 05:39.265 [SPEAKER_00]: But nobody stops or they, or they come to you so that you can then impart wisdom on them, but a lot of times people don't stop to fully see you. 05:39.745 --> 05:42.309 [SPEAKER_00]: And it can be a lonely and isolating place. 05:43.170 --> 05:53.284 [SPEAKER_00]: And it could leave us in a space where we're not recognizing how detrimental hurry can be to who got wants us to become. 05:54.246 --> 05:57.430 [SPEAKER_00]: And so this book I feel is a 05:57.899 --> 06:08.740 [SPEAKER_00]: Book of wisdom for people like us to hold us accountable in a way to where to be quite frankly, we may not have a lot of people in our lives doing right now. 06:09.582 --> 06:14.271 [SPEAKER_00]: So while we go through the chapters of this book for however long this takes, 06:14.723 --> 06:16.947 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me be your big sister. 06:17.808 --> 06:22.415 [SPEAKER_00]: The person that is going to pour into you and remind you to slow down. 06:23.096 --> 06:25.560 [SPEAKER_00]: While I'm also reminding myself of the same thing. 06:26.341 --> 06:37.980 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, before we get into the chapters, I want to set the tone on what the data says about hurry and how it's impacting women specifically. 06:37.960 --> 06:42.405 [SPEAKER_00]: Studies are showing that women live in a state of chronic overload. 06:42.965 --> 06:49.392 [SPEAKER_00]: According to the American Psychological Association, women consistently report high daily stress levels. 06:49.792 --> 06:53.256 [SPEAKER_00]: Nearly half say that they feel overwhelmed by responsibilities. 06:53.856 --> 07:05.588 [SPEAKER_00]: Women are more likely to report physical symptoms of stress, like fatigue, headaches, sleep disturbance. 07:06.547 --> 07:09.050 [SPEAKER_00]: Burnout is widespread amongst women. 07:09.671 --> 07:13.896 [SPEAKER_00]: Research shows that over 40% of women report feeling burned out. 07:14.397 --> 07:18.922 [SPEAKER_00]: Emotional exhaustion is especially high among women with care given responsibilities. 07:19.583 --> 07:23.568 [SPEAKER_00]: Many high achieving women report feeling always only. 07:24.289 --> 07:26.431 [SPEAKER_00]: Burnout isn't just workplace fatigue. 07:26.652 --> 07:30.917 [SPEAKER_00]: It spills into identity, relationships, and spiritual life. 07:31.285 --> 07:34.735 [SPEAKER_00]: The mental load is often invisible, but heavy. 07:35.557 --> 07:46.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Sociological research shows that women disproportionately carry planning responsibilities, emotional regulation in the home, scheduling a memory management, 07:46.709 --> 07:50.275 [SPEAKER_00]: anticipatory thinking so what do we need for next week? 07:50.295 --> 07:50.976 [SPEAKER_00]: What's for dinner? 07:50.996 --> 07:53.260 [SPEAKER_00]: What do I got order from the store this week? 07:53.280 --> 08:02.315 [SPEAKER_00]: This cognitive labor increases anxiety, decision fatigue, reduced mental clarity, and difficulty resting even when physically still. 08:03.117 --> 08:07.384 [SPEAKER_00]: Business then becomes internal and not just external. 08:07.364 --> 08:25.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Business impacts women's health, chronic, hurry, and stress elevate cortisol levels, and over time, this is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, sleep disruption, hormonal imbalance, and immune suppression. 08:25.705 --> 08:34.114 [SPEAKER_00]: Women are also more likely to sacrifice sleep to meet competing demands, which compounds emotional instability and cognitive overload. 08:34.938 --> 08:41.184 [SPEAKER_00]: Women experience time poverty, researchers describe a phenomenon called time scarcity. 08:41.745 --> 08:46.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Many women report having little to no uninterrupted discretionary time. 08:46.810 --> 08:51.955 [SPEAKER_00]: Rest is often fragmented and leisure feels unproductive or guilt-inducing. 08:52.676 --> 09:01.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Time poverty is strongly correlated with lower life satisfaction, higher anxiety and increased 09:02.258 --> 09:05.782 [SPEAKER_00]: I know many of you can identify what a lot of the things that I just read. 09:05.822 --> 09:14.573 [SPEAKER_00]: So when we read this book, I want us to understand that this is a clarion call, like this is the Lord getting our attention. 09:15.214 --> 09:26.528 [SPEAKER_00]: This is something that we need to take seriously, and this is something that can't just be a note in our prayer journal, something that sounded good while you were driving on your own the way to work. 09:26.508 --> 09:28.411 [SPEAKER_00]: But this is something I want you to take. 09:28.431 --> 09:30.774 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear our conversations here on the show. 09:31.134 --> 09:37.042 [SPEAKER_00]: But then take this into your prayer time and say, God help me eliminate herri from my life. 09:37.523 --> 09:40.647 [SPEAKER_00]: God help me calm my central nervous system. 09:40.767 --> 09:44.412 [SPEAKER_00]: Teach me how to rewire my central nervous system. 09:44.472 --> 09:47.676 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not operating from a space of survival mode. 09:47.696 --> 09:49.258 [SPEAKER_00]: So that I could be comfortable. 09:50.335 --> 09:52.337 [SPEAKER_00]: at the pace that you've called me to live. 09:52.397 --> 09:55.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Cause sometimes, y'all know some folks you can't sit down. 09:55.780 --> 10:04.408 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you sit down too long with yourself, your mind start going, you got it, you always got to do something, and it just highlights all of the things that you may be running from. 10:05.489 --> 10:10.734 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I believe that us taking seriously what's gonna be discussed in this book will be healing. 10:11.435 --> 10:20.123 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be freeing and I want you to take it to your prayer time so that the Lord can make you whole 10:21.638 --> 10:26.055 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the office starts off the book after the full word with a prologue. 10:26.416 --> 10:29.488 [SPEAKER_00]: It's titled the autobiography of an Epidemic. 10:30.498 --> 10:33.302 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, it's written in kind of like a journal format. 10:33.322 --> 10:50.568 [SPEAKER_00]: This is if you put a bunch of diary entries or notes in his phone into one section, this author also has a unique writing style, which I like, and I guess for branding purposes, I like it for that too, because usually if I see a book, I can tell that he wrote it just by looking at it. 10:50.688 --> 10:54.193 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's a great branding point. 10:54.173 --> 11:04.395 [SPEAKER_00]: but nevertheless he writes journal style, he writes with some humor and serious topics, so I also enjoy his writing style. 11:04.836 --> 11:10.528 [SPEAKER_00]: I like when I have books about authors where they're really saying things of substance is deep. 11:10.508 --> 11:13.353 [SPEAKER_00]: but is also enjoyable and unique to them. 11:13.434 --> 11:17.221 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it just adds to the overall literary experience. 11:17.762 --> 11:30.947 [SPEAKER_00]: But nevertheless, in this autobiography prologue section, he shares some thoughts or notes that really have or serve as the foundation that this book was written on. 11:30.927 --> 11:44.853 [SPEAKER_00]: The authors of mega church pastor, if you don't know from Portland, Oregon area, he talked about how he found a discharge and it grew by like a thousand members a year for the first couple of years. 11:45.334 --> 11:50.404 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he talked about just all of the growing pains that come along with it. 11:50.384 --> 11:55.635 [SPEAKER_00]: leading staff and the team and sometimes not always meeting the expectations of your team. 11:56.076 --> 12:07.380 [SPEAKER_00]: He talked about just being in this CEO role in all of these meetings and all of the executive operational sites that go to 12:07.360 --> 12:21.694 [SPEAKER_00]: running a church of this magnitude and he also talked about the physical side of preaching six times within a Sunday to be able to accommodate all of the people that were coming in a way that the church was growing. 12:22.235 --> 12:34.026 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he has this point here that I have highlighted where after describing all of that he talked about how I got into this thing meaning starting 12:34.006 --> 12:36.068 [SPEAKER_00]: is this the way of Jesus. 12:36.549 --> 12:41.134 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, speaking of Jesus, I have this terrifying thought lurking in the back of my mind. 12:41.454 --> 12:44.958 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nagging question of conscience that won't go away. 12:46.119 --> 12:48.021 [SPEAKER_00]: Who am I becoming? 12:49.102 --> 12:50.223 [SPEAKER_00]: I just hit 30. 12:51.204 --> 12:53.026 [SPEAKER_00]: So I have a little time under my belt. 12:53.527 --> 12:59.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Enough to chart a trajectory to plot the character arc of my life a few decades down the road. 12:59.794 --> 13:03.878 [SPEAKER_00]: I stop breathe and vision myself 13:03.858 --> 13:04.500 [SPEAKER_00]: 50. 13:04.520 --> 13:05.402 [SPEAKER_00]: 60. 13:06.043 --> 13:06.785 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not pretty. 13:07.306 --> 13:11.196 [SPEAKER_00]: I see a man who was successful, but by all the wrong metrics. 13:11.216 --> 13:16.228 [SPEAKER_00]: Church size, book sales, speaking invites, social stats, etc. 13:16.608 --> 13:20.618 [SPEAKER_00]: In the new American dream, your own Wikipedia page. 13:20.598 --> 13:26.571 [SPEAKER_00]: In spite of all of my talk about Jesus, I see a man who is emotionally unhealthy and spiritually shallow. 13:27.052 --> 13:30.700 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm still in my marriage, but it's a duty, not delight. 13:30.720 --> 13:32.664 [SPEAKER_00]: My kids won nothing to do with the church. 13:33.065 --> 13:34.949 [SPEAKER_00]: She was the mistress of choice for that. 13:35.350 --> 13:39.940 [SPEAKER_00]: In a listed lover I ran to to hide from the pain of my womb. 13:40.105 --> 13:56.228 [SPEAKER_00]: I basically, who I am today, but older and worse, stressed out on edge, quick to snap at the people I love most unhappy, preaching a way of life that sounds better than it actually is, oh, and always in a hurry. 13:57.270 --> 14:01.135 [SPEAKER_00]: Why am I in such a rush to become somebody I don't even like? 14:02.313 --> 14:03.875 [SPEAKER_00]: it hits me like a freight train. 14:04.336 --> 14:10.144 [SPEAKER_00]: In America, you can be a success as a pastor and a failure as an apprentice of Jesus. 14:10.525 --> 14:13.089 [SPEAKER_00]: You can gain a church and lose your soul. 14:13.569 --> 14:15.172 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want this to be my life. 14:17.435 --> 14:21.761 [SPEAKER_00]: I want y'all to sit with this question for yourselves that he asked. 14:21.781 --> 14:24.405 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, who am I becoming? 14:26.798 --> 14:35.170 [SPEAKER_00]: And he goes to describe if he was not to change anything, what his life would look like 10, 20, 30 years from now. 14:35.190 --> 14:36.572 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to do the same thing. 14:36.972 --> 14:50.291 [SPEAKER_00]: If you identify with any of the statistics that I went over, if you've identified with anything that's been discussed thus far, I want you to sit and ask yourself the question, and sit and prayer, so the Lord can reveal to you. 14:50.832 --> 14:55.438 [SPEAKER_00]: Who am I becoming? 14:55.891 --> 15:01.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Who will you be in 10, 20, 30, 40 years? 15:03.282 --> 15:05.105 [SPEAKER_00]: This is something I sit with often. 15:05.505 --> 15:16.101 [SPEAKER_00]: One thing that I know and one of the things that I believe is just a superpower or a secret to success for anybody and I've talked about this often is self-awareness. 15:16.122 --> 15:26.978 [SPEAKER_00]: And something about me that I do enjoy and admire about myself is that I am very self-aware and I recognize things that need to be course correct before they go too far. 15:26.958 --> 15:33.109 [SPEAKER_00]: And I also recognize signs and some things that I may be on the path that I need to course correct. 15:33.510 --> 15:43.168 [SPEAKER_00]: So for me, I know that when I start getting headaches often, when I start a not sleeping well, and I'm a sleeper y'all, I go to bed. 15:43.228 --> 15:43.709 [SPEAKER_00]: You hear me? 15:43.829 --> 15:51.042 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, everybody know, if you text me up to 8pm, you will get a text from me at maybe 5 a.m. because she goes to bed. 15:51.022 --> 15:53.850 [SPEAKER_00]: And she sleeps good, especially these days. 15:53.990 --> 15:58.502 [SPEAKER_00]: My friend bought me a little heating pad for my birthday. 15:58.583 --> 16:01.611 [SPEAKER_00]: If a husband got me like a new diffuser, child, please. 16:02.132 --> 16:06.043 [SPEAKER_00]: I put that heating pad on, cut that diffuser on and be. 16:06.023 --> 16:07.625 [SPEAKER_00]: knocked out. 16:08.085 --> 16:22.178 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but I know when I start having those migraines, if my sleep starts getting interrupted, these are symptoms that something has got to give and we need to reel it back in and reevaluate. 16:24.100 --> 16:34.630 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine if I didn't have self-awareness or if I had self-awareness and didn't do anything about it, 16:36.230 --> 16:44.383 [SPEAKER_00]: I would imagine that I will be in a place where I've accomplished all of these things and accumulated all of these assets. 16:45.365 --> 16:52.416 [SPEAKER_00]: I have organized for my children to have full lives, but they never see me. 16:53.695 --> 17:08.875 [SPEAKER_00]: They have all the opportunities in the world and they are put in a best environment and all of these wonderful things, they're culture, they've traveled, they've done different instruments and learned new languages and done all of these beautiful amazing things on paper. 17:10.197 --> 17:11.859 [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know them and they don't know me. 17:11.879 --> 17:14.663 [SPEAKER_00]: The thought of that makes my stomach hurt. 17:15.704 --> 17:16.986 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine 17:17.455 --> 17:23.660 [SPEAKER_00]: 18 years from now when all of my kids are at the house and it's just me and my husband left that we don't even know or like each other. 17:23.680 --> 17:36.251 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine I can't imagine my time coming and I'm before the Lord and I don't hear that well done. 17:36.272 --> 17:45.960 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine I'm before the Lord and everything I did in this life doesn't stand the test by fire. 17:47.695 --> 17:48.656 [SPEAKER_00]: that will crush me. 17:50.519 --> 17:51.280 [SPEAKER_00]: That will crush me. 17:52.081 --> 17:56.547 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I want you to take a second to let your mind go there. 17:56.567 --> 18:03.876 [SPEAKER_00]: If we don't address this issue of hurry now, what does your life look like? 18:04.657 --> 18:07.040 [SPEAKER_00]: 10, 20, 30 years from now. 18:08.923 --> 18:16.673 [SPEAKER_00]: And are you in a rush to be somebody that you don't even like? 18:17.564 --> 18:22.650 [SPEAKER_00]: Because that is the foundation of you really being able to make meaningful change. 18:23.271 --> 18:30.079 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to sit with those questions and let yourself feel those feelings. 18:31.200 --> 18:39.370 [SPEAKER_00]: Because by you feeling those feelings now, when you can do something about it, it'll motivate you to make the changes that need to be made. 18:40.565 --> 18:43.629 [SPEAKER_00]: So the first chapter, this book is broken up into different parts. 18:44.571 --> 18:49.738 [SPEAKER_00]: The first chapter of part one is called Hary, the great enemy of spiritual life. 18:50.760 --> 18:57.930 [SPEAKER_00]: The author talks about how he sat down with one of his mentors and in his mentor was telling him stories about his mentor. 18:59.312 --> 19:00.514 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says how, 19:01.253 --> 19:06.699 [SPEAKER_00]: His mentor asked, what do I need to do to become the man that I want to be? 19:07.840 --> 19:10.483 [SPEAKER_00]: And the mentor asked us to, his mentor. 19:11.384 --> 19:16.851 [SPEAKER_00]: And the answer was, you must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. 19:18.112 --> 19:19.013 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing else. 19:19.594 --> 19:22.717 [SPEAKER_00]: Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. 19:23.198 --> 19:26.822 [SPEAKER_00]: You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. 19:28.642 --> 19:38.641 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, Satan doesn't show up as a demon with a pitch fork and gravely smoke or as will ferro with an electric guitar and fire on Saturday night live. 19:39.202 --> 19:41.707 [SPEAKER_00]: He's far more intelligent than we give him credit for. 19:41.727 --> 19:49.401 [SPEAKER_00]: Today you are far more likely to run into the enemy in the form of an alert on your phone while you're reading your Bible. 19:49.381 --> 20:08.020 [SPEAKER_00]: or a multi-day Netflix binge, or a full-on dopamine addiction to Instagram, or a Saturday morning at the office, or another soccer game on a Sunday, or football, or basketball, whatever your sports choice is, or commitment after commitment, after commitment, and a life of speed. 20:09.722 --> 20:15.608 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, Quaritan Boom wants to say that if the devil can't make you send, he'll make you busy. 20:16.297 --> 20:21.307 [SPEAKER_00]: There's truth in that, both sin and busyness have the exact same effect. 20:21.828 --> 20:27.400 [SPEAKER_00]: They cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even your own soul. 20:29.304 --> 20:37.360 [SPEAKER_00]: The famous psychologist Carl John had this little saying, 20:38.977 --> 20:43.326 [SPEAKER_00]: a couple of years ago when I don't maybe say I was in the height of my hurry. 20:44.488 --> 20:50.721 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm busy now, still, but I don't think that I'm as hurryed as I once was. 20:51.021 --> 20:55.671 [SPEAKER_00]: We're still working on it, still some hurry in it, but you know, it was worse before. 20:55.691 --> 21:00.681 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was talking to my therapist at the time. 21:00.661 --> 21:04.966 [SPEAKER_00]: And she, you know, when you're in therapy, they always ask what are your goals? 21:05.006 --> 21:06.528 [SPEAKER_00]: What are your treatment goals? 21:06.608 --> 21:07.990 [SPEAKER_00]: What does success look like for you? 21:08.510 --> 21:11.874 [SPEAKER_00]: And for me being present was huge. 21:12.495 --> 21:15.899 [SPEAKER_00]: So where I just felt like I was always on the go. 21:16.019 --> 21:21.205 [SPEAKER_00]: And even if I wasn't physically doing a lot of things, my mind was in 50 million places. 21:21.265 --> 21:23.428 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm always thinking. 21:23.915 --> 21:27.019 [SPEAKER_00]: and planning and strategizing and figuring something out. 21:27.420 --> 21:33.228 [SPEAKER_00]: And even if I'm not trying to figure out something to solve right away, I'm thinking about something I might want to do later. 21:33.288 --> 21:35.471 [SPEAKER_00]: That's just it's a blessing and a curse. 21:36.633 --> 21:46.547 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we started putting little things in place in my day to help eliminate this internal sense of hurry. 21:47.287 --> 21:55.215 [SPEAKER_00]: One of those things was creating more transition times in my day, because I was famous for back to back to back to back. 21:55.675 --> 21:59.379 [SPEAKER_00]: Meetings go somewhere, come back, do this, do that. 21:59.439 --> 22:04.444 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it was just very hurried and very fast. 22:04.464 --> 22:10.069 [SPEAKER_00]: And so then we started, she had me at in different breaks in my day. 22:10.830 --> 22:14.914 [SPEAKER_00]: So before I came home from the office, 22:14.894 --> 22:19.401 [SPEAKER_00]: I would take about 30 minutes or so, and just do whatever. 22:20.042 --> 22:30.657 [SPEAKER_00]: Dilly, Dally, so sometimes when this was when, I think this is when I still have my office in Virginia, and there was like this restaurant nearby. 22:30.697 --> 22:31.599 [SPEAKER_00]: I love oysters. 22:32.059 --> 22:33.882 [SPEAKER_00]: That's like my favorite food. 22:33.862 --> 22:39.589 [SPEAKER_00]: and so it was this oyster spot right by my office and it was also a sushi spot I love sushi as well. 22:40.270 --> 23:01.557 [SPEAKER_00]: So I will go to the oyster spots sometimes after school or after work and I would just eat some oysters, get some appetizers and then I would head home or go and get some sushi and then I would head home or I'll go to the water that I like to go to and um, 23:01.537 --> 23:04.260 [SPEAKER_00]: I might just go out there and sit if it's a nice day. 23:04.541 --> 23:08.025 [SPEAKER_00]: But those were my moments to exercise some stillness. 23:08.446 --> 23:19.379 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I would transition into home life, which is usually kids, homework, for them, or getting ready for the next day, things around the house. 23:19.399 --> 23:26.208 [SPEAKER_00]: Something we also added to my schedule was a lunch break, which is wild, because what was that? 23:26.268 --> 23:30.193 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I never had a lunch break, I would just eat and work. 23:30.173 --> 23:44.594 [SPEAKER_00]: but she was like you need to have a lunch break and when you eat lunch, don't scroll on your phone while you're eating, but eat the food, chew the food, taste the food, and then get back to work. 23:44.954 --> 23:50.562 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's something that I will put in my schedule and that's something I still do now by husband and laughs at me because 23:50.542 --> 23:58.510 [SPEAKER_00]: My son does this too, so we look like twins where we will get us a plate, sit down, cut a show on and just be in our world. 23:59.051 --> 24:06.738 [SPEAKER_00]: And I do that dad where I'll say, give my plate, cut on one of my little shows, eat my food and I'm just in my little world for that moment. 24:07.259 --> 24:10.142 [SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, go back to doing whatever needs to be done. 24:10.582 --> 24:16.448 [SPEAKER_00]: But I had to be very intentional about carving out 24:17.204 --> 24:28.584 [SPEAKER_00]: And then also something that she had me do was any time that I feel like I'm getting her read and I'm able to recognize it, hit pause right then and there and then ground myself. 24:28.604 --> 24:36.158 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what that looks like is this happens often, especially in the mornings because I'm always running late for class to get to school. 24:36.593 --> 24:37.054 [SPEAKER_00]: It's off. 24:37.234 --> 24:38.996 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel myself rushing on grabbing this. 24:39.036 --> 24:39.797 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to get my coffee. 24:39.817 --> 24:40.418 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to get my lunch. 24:40.438 --> 24:41.440 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to get my breast pumps. 24:41.460 --> 24:48.029 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to get all these different things and then get out to house because I got to commute into the city and maybe traffic all of that. 24:48.069 --> 24:58.864 [SPEAKER_00]: So when I find myself going at a certain speed and I recognize it, I pause and I take four deep breaths in, six deep breaths out. 24:59.544 --> 25:02.128 [SPEAKER_00]: I touch something and I feel it. 25:03.323 --> 25:08.490 [SPEAKER_00]: I smell, and as I'm inhaling, I identify something that I'm smelling. 25:09.952 --> 25:15.000 [SPEAKER_00]: I pose and I just listen and identify something that I'm hearing. 25:15.440 --> 25:24.353 [SPEAKER_00]: And so it was just like grounding exercise to just get back into my body and to get my feet on the ground. 25:24.552 --> 25:33.346 [SPEAKER_00]: and be present in the right now and then I will continue doing what I have to do to get up the house but it's not in that same rushed hurried state. 25:33.687 --> 25:41.840 [SPEAKER_00]: So these are some things that I have learned and some tools I've learned from therapy that have proven to be very helpful. 25:42.160 --> 25:50.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Now of course everything is not full proof and I would also tell you though this is why you have to stay connected to the Holy Spirit because he'll pull you up too. 25:51.518 --> 26:00.349 [SPEAKER_00]: where there have been plenty of times where the Holy Spirit has been like pulse or got my attention somehow that forced the speed to slow down some. 26:01.210 --> 26:05.735 [SPEAKER_00]: So I pray that you guys could take some of these things because these aren't unique to just me. 26:05.935 --> 26:07.457 [SPEAKER_00]: These are things that you could do as well. 26:08.098 --> 26:17.509 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that you write those things down and you try to implement those throughout our time together as we're talking about hurry because I believe that it will help. 26:20.020 --> 26:31.758 [SPEAKER_00]: So the author goes on to say, Granted, there's a healthy kind of busyness where your life is full with things that matter, not wasted on empty leisure or trivial pursuits. 26:31.778 --> 26:34.402 [SPEAKER_00]: By that definition, Jesus himself was busy. 26:34.983 --> 26:43.716 [SPEAKER_00]: The problem isn't when you have a lot to do is when you have too much to do, and the only way to keep the quota up is to hurry. 26:45.012 --> 27:00.686 [SPEAKER_00]: He says Michael Ziggorelli from the Charleston Southern University School of Business conducted the obstacles to growth survey of over 20,000 Christians across the globe and identified business as a major distraction from spiritual life. 27:01.448 --> 27:04.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen carefully to his hypothesis. 27:05.195 --> 27:22.866 [SPEAKER_00]: It may be the case that one, Christians are assimilating to a culture of business, hurry, and overload, which leads to two, God becoming more marginalized in Christians lives, which leads to three, deteriorating relationship with God. 27:22.846 --> 27:37.991 [SPEAKER_00]: which leads to four, Christians becoming even more vulnerable to adopting secular assumptions about how to live, which leads to five more conformity in a culture of business, hurry and overload. 27:38.852 --> 27:41.456 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the cycle begins again and again. 27:41.496 --> 27:44.601 [SPEAKER_00]: He says in pastors by the way are the worse. 27:45.122 --> 27:49.950 [SPEAKER_00]: He rated business in my profession right up there with lawyers and doctors. 27:49.930 --> 27:51.733 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, not me, other pastors. 27:52.073 --> 27:53.776 [SPEAKER_00]: He has this little sense of humor in here. 27:55.639 --> 27:58.684 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, this new speed of life isn't Christian. 27:58.964 --> 28:00.006 [SPEAKER_00]: It's anti-Christ. 28:00.547 --> 28:01.128 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about it. 28:01.829 --> 28:05.054 [SPEAKER_00]: What has the highest value in Christ's kingdom economy? 28:05.895 --> 28:07.197 [SPEAKER_00]: Easy, love. 28:07.683 --> 28:09.384 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus made that crystal clear. 28:09.705 --> 28:18.252 [SPEAKER_00]: He said that greatest commandment in all of the Torah was to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 28:18.272 --> 28:20.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Follow by, love your neighbor as yourself. 28:21.315 --> 28:23.917 [SPEAKER_00]: But love is painfully time consuming. 28:24.678 --> 28:29.382 [SPEAKER_00]: All parents know this as do all lovers in most long-term friends. 28:31.263 --> 28:36.728 [SPEAKER_00]: This is true, love is time consuming 28:37.636 --> 28:46.604 [SPEAKER_00]: it requires presence, it requires listening, it requires thoughtful response, it requires action. 28:47.345 --> 28:52.209 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't rush to love somebody well because you're missed things. 28:53.631 --> 28:57.494 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about whatever relationship that you have in your life that matters to you. 28:59.056 --> 29:05.061 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you love or be loved well in that relationship from a place of hurry? 29:06.239 --> 29:11.164 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so, and he gives an example he says, hurry and love are incompatible. 29:11.965 --> 29:18.232 [SPEAKER_00]: All my worst moments as a father, a husband, and a pastor, even as a human being are when I'm in a hurry. 29:18.773 --> 29:32.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Late for an appointment, behind on my unrealistic to do list, trying to cram too much into my day, I ooze anger, tension, a critical nagging, the antithesis, a love. 29:32.227 --> 29:46.688 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't believe me next time you're trying to get your tight B wife in three young, easily distracted children out of the house and you're running late, a subject on which I have a wealth of experience, just pay attention to how you regulate to them. 29:47.490 --> 29:48.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it feel like love? 29:49.453 --> 29:55.401 [SPEAKER_00]: Or is it far more in the vein of agitation, anger, a biting comment, a rough glare? 29:56.223 --> 29:58.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Hurry and love our oil and water. 29:58.386 --> 29:59.888 [SPEAKER_00]: They simply do not mix. 30:01.066 --> 30:06.174 [SPEAKER_00]: Hence, in the Apostle Paul's definition of love, the first descriptor is patient. 30:06.515 --> 30:10.982 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's talking about, in our first current things, we're talking about love, it's patient, love, it's kind. 30:12.945 --> 30:21.639 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I never correlated personally busyness or being in a hurry with being the opposite of love. 30:21.880 --> 30:28.390 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that I would've ever put these two together as opposites. 30:29.652 --> 30:34.178 [SPEAKER_00]: because I think that if I didn't take a second to really hear him out. 30:35.170 --> 30:37.352 [SPEAKER_00]: I would probably reject what he's saying. 30:37.432 --> 30:46.301 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, no, I could still, I mean, I could be busy and still love, but no, you can't be rushed and moving quickly and still love people well. 30:46.321 --> 31:05.059 [SPEAKER_00]: And he gave a great example about trying to get to family up the house on time and how all that rushing and being all over the place can make you agitated and snappy and not exercising the care and sensitivity that you need to have with the people that you love. 31:06.288 --> 31:09.412 [SPEAKER_00]: but our intent doesn't negate the impact. 31:10.955 --> 31:16.142 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is another hard question that I want you to write down to pray about today. 31:16.202 --> 31:25.515 [SPEAKER_00]: How has Hurri caused you to negatively impact those that you love the most? 31:26.616 --> 31:28.319 [SPEAKER_00]: Is Hurri hurting your spouse? 31:29.140 --> 31:35.569 [SPEAKER_00]: Is Hurri hurting your immediate family, your children, your friendships, 31:37.422 --> 31:45.033 [SPEAKER_00]: have you acted outside of character because you've allowed her to take such control over your life? 31:47.958 --> 31:48.859 [SPEAKER_00]: Something to think about. 31:49.600 --> 31:53.426 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes on to say, in our culture, slow is a pejorative. 31:54.267 --> 31:58.133 [SPEAKER_00]: When somebody has a low IQ, we dub them slow. 31:58.774 --> 32:02.118 [SPEAKER_00]: When the service at a restaurant is lousy, we call it slow. 32:02.679 --> 32:06.585 [SPEAKER_00]: When a movie is boring again, we call it slow. 32:06.802 --> 32:16.572 [SPEAKER_00]: Her case in point, Maryam Webster says, mentally dull, stupid, naturally inert or sluggish, locking in readiness, propness, or willingness. 32:17.352 --> 32:20.856 [SPEAKER_00]: The messages clear, slow as bad, fast as good. 32:21.576 --> 32:25.841 [SPEAKER_00]: But in the upside-down kingdom, our value system is turned on its head. 32:26.581 --> 32:27.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Hurray is of the devil. 32:28.263 --> 32:36.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Slow is of Jesus, because Jesus is what love looks like in flesh and blood. 32:37.514 --> 32:45.507 [SPEAKER_00]: Two of the other core realities of the kingdom, love, joy, and peace are at the heart of Jesus' kingdom vision. 32:46.309 --> 32:48.592 [SPEAKER_00]: All three are more than just emotions. 32:49.634 --> 32:51.477 [SPEAKER_00]: They are overall conditions of the heart. 32:52.058 --> 32:53.561 [SPEAKER_00]: They aren't just pleasant feelings. 32:53.841 --> 32:59.651 [SPEAKER_00]: They are the kinds of people we become through our apprenticeship to Jesus, who embodies all three. 33:00.692 --> 33:03.437 [SPEAKER_00]: And all three are incompatible with hurry. 33:04.295 --> 33:11.349 [SPEAKER_00]: Think of Joey, all the spiritual masters from the inside and outside the Jesus tradition agree on this one. 33:12.512 --> 33:15.197 [SPEAKER_00]: If there's a secret to happiness, it's simple. 33:15.698 --> 33:17.221 [SPEAKER_00]: Presence to the moment. 33:17.823 --> 33:22.472 [SPEAKER_00]: The more present we are to the now, the more joy we tap into. 33:23.414 --> 33:31.667 [SPEAKER_00]: To restate, love, joy, and peace are at the heart of all Jesus is trying to grow in the soil of your life. 33:32.068 --> 33:35.173 [SPEAKER_00]: And all three are incompatible with hurry. 33:36.195 --> 33:43.026 [SPEAKER_00]: Another question I want you to write to pray in general about is, how can I be more present? 33:44.407 --> 33:47.994 [SPEAKER_00]: How can I get out of my head and all the places it goes? 33:48.815 --> 33:51.721 [SPEAKER_00]: How do I get out of my phone and all the things that pop up? 33:52.502 --> 33:53.925 [SPEAKER_00]: And how can I just be here? 33:55.407 --> 34:02.280 [SPEAKER_00]: I find myself often I might be multitasking and Holy Spirit reminds me, no, single task. 34:03.863 --> 34:10.376 [SPEAKER_00]: I picked up my son the other day and I always smothered my kids with a lot of affection. 34:10.416 --> 34:23.442 [SPEAKER_00]: And I went to go put him in my arms, but he was like 60-something pounds now and he just didn't fit in my arms or my life like he wants to do. 34:24.029 --> 34:30.282 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I look at my daughter, who's the eighth month old, and I'm like, he was just that small. 34:30.322 --> 34:38.158 [SPEAKER_00]: How did we get to the point where he doesn't fit in my life like he did as a baby? 34:38.259 --> 34:43.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Like that just stuck with me to look at his face and see the features maturing. 34:43.790 --> 34:50.312 [SPEAKER_00]: To look at my two-year-old in and see his features in the choreing and how he looks more like his dad every single day. 34:50.673 --> 34:55.369 [SPEAKER_00]: And I look at my baby girl to see and look and see how she looks just like me. 34:55.771 --> 35:19.787 [SPEAKER_00]: And how happy she is and I pay attention to where her cheeks get a little bit bigger or where her arms get a little longer or her legs get a little longer and the hair growing on her head I take moments to stop and I stare at them and they be looking at me like girl what what like what but it reminds me how fast time goes. 35:20.662 --> 35:25.429 [SPEAKER_00]: When I was selling bread in my birthday last week, I always get reflective as I said before. 35:25.469 --> 35:27.992 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, I'm 34 years old. 35:28.974 --> 35:30.836 [SPEAKER_00]: When did I get to this age? 35:32.839 --> 35:35.663 [SPEAKER_00]: It just, it feels like just yesterday, I was a teenager. 35:36.424 --> 35:39.328 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's this funny trend on TikTok where, 35:39.511 --> 35:51.213 [SPEAKER_00]: They talk about how millennials, what it says like millennials are in denial about our age where some of us having kids is still thinking we have a team pregnancy stuff. 35:51.233 --> 36:00.169 [SPEAKER_00]: But we are growing in Mary having planned children, but think we have a teenage pregnancy because we were so scared of it growing up. 36:01.162 --> 36:13.279 [SPEAKER_00]: or a lot of us where, and I get this often, if I'm at my son's school or if the school calls or sends an email and they're like, hey, Mrs. Naomi K, we're calling about, and they'll say my son's name, and I'm like, you're really calling me? 36:14.000 --> 36:17.365 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm the parent, like I'm the adult, that's supposed to be a charge. 36:17.465 --> 36:21.031 [SPEAKER_00]: I just got here, like I'm just a child. 36:21.712 --> 36:25.317 [SPEAKER_00]: But no, I'm not, I am grown, very grown. 36:25.337 --> 36:29.683 [SPEAKER_00]: But time, it just goes and it flies. 36:31.267 --> 36:51.536 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I find myself intentionally having to take moments and not multitask, not worry about all the what next and all of the things and just be more present and I want you to do the same sitting think about how can you be more present. 36:53.419 --> 36:57.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it you're going to have a phone free evening every night? 36:57.895 --> 37:09.981 [SPEAKER_00]: and just enjoy whatever your environment is, something I like to do when it's warm out, child I can't wait for it to be spring because I'm sick of the snow in the DC area. 37:10.805 --> 37:15.311 [SPEAKER_00]: But when the sun is out, I sit on our back patio in the sun. 37:15.992 --> 37:17.554 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just let the sun hit my face. 37:17.634 --> 37:19.677 [SPEAKER_00]: It feels amazing. 37:19.697 --> 37:24.444 [SPEAKER_00]: The vitamin D is the fresh sunshine, the fresh air outside. 37:24.504 --> 37:30.291 [SPEAKER_00]: Something I do is I like to sit out there and drink my coffee and just drink it slow. 37:30.972 --> 37:33.436 [SPEAKER_00]: Smell the hazelnut and vanilla creamer. 37:33.496 --> 37:36.700 [SPEAKER_00]: Feel the warmth of the mug in my hands. 37:37.281 --> 37:38.803 [SPEAKER_00]: Feel the taste. 37:39.070 --> 37:47.644 [SPEAKER_00]: go through my mouth and go down as I swallow like it's just just feeling and being present for every moment. 37:48.605 --> 37:50.068 [SPEAKER_00]: It does something for you. 37:50.128 --> 37:58.902 [SPEAKER_00]: I promise it does and it makes you appreciate all of the ways in which the Lord is involved in our day-to-day. 37:59.658 --> 38:19.606 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you're present, you see the beauty of his craftsmanship from nature to you as an individual to hairs on your head, the unique features of your face, the of your body, if you're outside and you see the birds, how they don't worry about anything as scripture says about where they're going to eat or anything the Lord provides for them. 38:19.926 --> 38:27.657 [SPEAKER_00]: When you look at the flowers that grow out of the grass and all of their beauty and their uniqueness, 38:28.784 --> 38:39.705 [SPEAKER_00]: when you take a second on your commute to work and not listen to something or not call anybody and try to multitask in that moment, but you pay attention to the road. 38:40.563 --> 38:44.929 [SPEAKER_00]: You just start to thank God for even being able to have a car to get to work. 38:45.149 --> 38:53.400 [SPEAKER_00]: You start praying for the people on the road that they will get to their destination safely that the Lord will cover them in their families. 38:54.121 --> 39:03.833 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going into an office that you maybe tired of working right now, but you want to pray to be able to financially be able to contribute to or take care of your family. 39:04.094 --> 39:06.537 [SPEAKER_00]: Like when you take a second and just exist, 39:07.327 --> 39:15.940 [SPEAKER_00]: and be and not do with thinking achieve and rush your worship goes to a new level. 39:17.443 --> 39:28.660 [SPEAKER_00]: And because you take the distractions away that the enemy is using as little carrots to lure you away from your focus on the Lord. 39:29.905 --> 39:35.274 [SPEAKER_00]: The opposite for many of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. 39:35.295 --> 39:42.227 [SPEAKER_00]: It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. 39:42.888 --> 39:46.935 [SPEAKER_00]: We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. 39:46.915 --> 39:48.558 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see what says stay here? 39:48.578 --> 39:52.405 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just our emotional health that's under threat. 39:52.525 --> 40:00.960 [SPEAKER_00]: As if that's not enough, we move so fast through life that we're stressed out on age, quick to snap at our spouses or kids. 40:01.781 --> 40:05.107 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, that's true, but it's even more terrifying. 40:05.608 --> 40:08.012 [SPEAKER_00]: Our spiritual lives hang in the balance. 40:08.515 --> 40:21.481 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't help but wonder if Jesus would say to our entire generation what He said to Martha, you are worried and upset about many things but few things are needed or indeed only one. 40:21.521 --> 40:26.912 [SPEAKER_00]: The need of the hour is for a slowdown spiritually. 40:26.892 --> 40:32.864 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's where we'll stop this chapter one of the ruthless elimination of hurry. 40:33.726 --> 40:36.051 [SPEAKER_00]: Click the link in the show notes to get your copy. 40:36.592 --> 40:42.063 [SPEAKER_00]: The chapters are pretty short, so maybe next week it depends on how many, how much I can read. 40:42.905 --> 40:46.673 [SPEAKER_00]: But next episode we will 40:47.159 --> 40:49.084 [SPEAKER_00]: Do maybe one to two chapters, we'll see. 40:49.726 --> 40:52.633 [SPEAKER_00]: But we'll continue on this reading in the next episode. 40:52.753 --> 40:54.418 [SPEAKER_00]: Grab your copy of this book. 40:54.438 --> 40:55.701 [SPEAKER_00]: The link is in the show notes. 40:56.062 --> 41:00.153 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys so much for listening to another episode of the blessed and boss that podcast. 41:00.173 --> 41:01.877 [SPEAKER_00]: I love you guys, and I'll see you in the next one.