WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:04.901 [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to Blessed and Boston, presented by Anchor DeMedia. 00:05.523 --> 00:11.555 [SPEAKER_00]: In entrepreneurship podcasts for Christians, all about how to make God the CEO of your business. 00:12.176 --> 00:19.592 [SPEAKER_00]: Get ready to be inspired, challenged, but well equipped to live and build your destiny, his way. 00:27.706 --> 00:31.172 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of The Blessed Embossed Up Podcast. 00:31.613 --> 00:32.474 [SPEAKER_00]: And happy March. 00:33.175 --> 00:36.721 [SPEAKER_00]: It is Women's History Month International Women's Day. 00:36.781 --> 00:49.984 [SPEAKER_00]: So shout out to all of the women who are making it happen, building businesses, growing your families, serving the Lord, shout out to all of you because you deserve to be celebrated. 00:49.964 --> 00:56.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Today we are going to continue on with our book club pick, the ruthless elimination of hurry by John Mark Comer. 00:56.640 --> 01:00.049 [SPEAKER_00]: If you hadn't started reading it yet, please go ahead and get the book. 01:00.149 --> 01:02.114 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll read an overview in a second. 01:02.414 --> 01:04.540 [SPEAKER_00]: But the link for the book will be in the show notes. 01:04.800 --> 01:07.146 [SPEAKER_00]: We only read one chapter so far. 01:07.126 --> 01:11.993 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think I did the prologue and then the first chapter and we're going to cover two chapters today. 01:12.373 --> 01:14.176 [SPEAKER_00]: So you still have time to catch up. 01:14.256 --> 01:19.182 [SPEAKER_00]: The book is broken up into three sections and so today we'll be finished with part one. 01:19.723 --> 01:23.949 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a quick read, it's an easy read and but it's powerful. 01:24.750 --> 01:26.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Every chapter is meaty. 01:26.492 --> 01:30.157 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not one of those books we got to sift through a lot of fluff to get to the point. 01:30.698 --> 01:34.483 [SPEAKER_00]: Every sentence means something I love that about the book. 01:34.463 --> 01:37.871 [SPEAKER_00]: quick description, it says, who am I becoming? 01:38.513 --> 01:50.481 [SPEAKER_00]: That was the question nagging pastor in author John Mark Homer, outwardly he appears successful, but inwardly things weren't pretty, so he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance and heard these words. 01:50.461 --> 01:53.006 [SPEAKER_00]: Ruthlessly eliminate herri from your life. 01:53.568 --> 01:56.534 [SPEAKER_00]: Herri is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life. 01:57.336 --> 02:02.387 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't the response that he expected, but it was and continues to be the answer he needs. 02:02.928 --> 02:09.482 [SPEAKER_00]: Too often we treat the symptoms of toxicity in our modern world instead of trying to pinpoint the cause. 02:09.462 --> 02:14.931 [SPEAKER_00]: A growing number of voices are pointed at hurried or busyness as a root of much evil. 02:15.612 --> 02:24.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Within the pages of this book, you'll find a fascinating roadmap to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world. 02:24.768 --> 02:30.178 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to read this book because I've read it a few years ago and I felt like I needed to revisit it. 02:30.579 --> 02:37.551 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm somebody who has a busy lifestyle generally because family, business, school, all the things. 02:38.593 --> 02:42.861 [SPEAKER_00]: But I also have a very busy internal life. 02:42.841 --> 02:43.902 [SPEAKER_00]: what I got to do next. 02:44.142 --> 02:45.103 [SPEAKER_00]: I need to hurry up and do this. 02:45.203 --> 02:45.964 [SPEAKER_00]: I hate being late. 02:45.984 --> 02:48.767 [SPEAKER_00]: So sometimes I have to rush in all of that. 02:48.907 --> 02:52.791 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I knew that I needed to revisit this book for myself. 02:53.191 --> 03:02.480 [SPEAKER_00]: And I suspect because we see each other over here that many of you needed to either revisit it or visit it for the first time as well. 03:03.241 --> 03:07.565 [SPEAKER_00]: So we already covered the prologue as well as chapter one. 03:08.025 --> 03:12.730 [SPEAKER_00]: And so in this 03:12.710 --> 03:22.146 [SPEAKER_00]: And chapter two, he gives us a history of speed and how in the world we got to this point where everything is so freaking fast. 03:22.835 --> 03:47.897 [SPEAKER_00]: We started off by giving a like history how we used to go or operate our days with the natural rhythm of the day when the sun came up we will wake up when the sun started to set we will wind down and go to sleep and that was just the natural flow of people's days it was slow it was in sync with the natural rhythm of the day. 03:47.877 --> 03:52.205 [SPEAKER_00]: And now we have alarm clocks that jolt us out of whatever phase of sleep. 03:52.505 --> 04:10.678 [SPEAKER_00]: We may be in at any given point in time and it has forced us to conform to this artificial timeline to accommodate nine to five working all day all year long because even when we were going by, waking when the sun comes up and sleeping when the sun goes down. 04:11.637 --> 04:12.518 [SPEAKER_00]: That changed. 04:12.578 --> 04:14.321 [SPEAKER_00]: We have daylight savings time. 04:14.381 --> 04:15.822 [SPEAKER_00]: So the winter. 04:15.883 --> 04:17.385 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be dark a little bit longer. 04:17.425 --> 04:18.726 [SPEAKER_00]: You get a little bit more rest. 04:18.766 --> 04:21.089 [SPEAKER_00]: The summer is a little bit more sun. 04:21.109 --> 04:22.451 [SPEAKER_00]: So you were waking up earlier. 04:22.531 --> 04:29.240 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you would really be able to flow with the natural rhythm of the day. 04:30.061 --> 04:35.248 [SPEAKER_00]: And now we are forced to conform with this artificial time. 04:35.228 --> 04:40.894 [SPEAKER_00]: I even feel my body in conflict with that often because I'm somebody who's an early riser. 04:41.936 --> 04:46.821 [SPEAKER_00]: If I was to stay asleep in the morning, I would have to have like blackout curtain. 04:47.021 --> 04:57.473 [SPEAKER_00]: I could not even feel that the sun is close to being up because once the sun wakes up, my body naturally is like, okay, now it's time to wake up. 04:57.453 --> 05:03.520 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm an early bird as well, so I'm naturally going to wake up on the early or side. 05:03.781 --> 05:08.767 [SPEAKER_00]: But especially if I see the sun is up, my body is like, okay, we have to be awake. 05:08.787 --> 05:13.112 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not somebody that could like sleep the day away, wake up at 2 or 3 like I can't. 05:13.633 --> 05:16.737 [SPEAKER_00]: Once the sun starts going down, I start winding down. 05:16.777 --> 05:21.042 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe that's because I am an early bird that I also am somebody who goes to bed earlier. 05:21.703 --> 05:26.008 [SPEAKER_00]: But my body, I feel naturally flows that way. 05:26.765 --> 05:34.047 [SPEAKER_00]: And when I'm awakened by my alarm clock, I'm more likely to be grouchy, groggy, because I didn't naturally wake up. 05:34.147 --> 05:41.449 [SPEAKER_00]: I was essentially slapping a face and told to get up by this aggressive alarm clock. 05:42.442 --> 05:50.218 [SPEAKER_00]: or I might force myself to sleep by a certain time, so I could get a decent amount of sleep before that alarm clock is gonna go off. 05:50.319 --> 05:59.959 [SPEAKER_00]: And so it feels for a lot of us counterintuitive, the way that the world is, but unfortunately, that's the way the world is. 06:00.600 --> 06:02.003 [SPEAKER_00]: So how do we, 06:02.607 --> 06:11.196 [SPEAKER_00]: continue to live our life and understand the world that we live in, but we're not of the world that we're living. 06:11.617 --> 06:15.341 [SPEAKER_00]: That we understand that, okay, I have to set an alarm to wake up. 06:15.841 --> 06:21.207 [SPEAKER_00]: I have to do XYZ, but I'm refusing to get swept up in that pace. 06:21.307 --> 06:31.298 [SPEAKER_00]: How do we maintain our internal 06:32.122 --> 06:33.625 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why we're reading this book. 06:34.346 --> 06:43.725 [SPEAKER_00]: But nevertheless, he goes on to say how in 1879, you had Edison and the light bulb, which made it possible to stay up past sunset. 06:44.166 --> 06:46.250 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, okay, brace yourself for this next step. 06:46.731 --> 06:51.801 [SPEAKER_00]: Before Edison, the average person slept 11 hours a night. 06:52.574 --> 06:56.898 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine sleeping for 11 hours at night? 06:57.119 --> 06:59.882 [SPEAKER_00]: I average about six to eight. 07:00.762 --> 07:06.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Closer to six, depending on what I have going on, closer to eight, if things are a little bit slower. 07:07.229 --> 07:10.572 [SPEAKER_00]: But 11, that sounds amazing. 07:11.574 --> 07:13.215 [SPEAKER_00]: That sounds absolutely amazing. 07:14.216 --> 07:20.843 [SPEAKER_00]: He said I used to read biographies of great men and women from history who got up to pray at four o'clock in the morning. 07:21.245 --> 07:24.470 [SPEAKER_00]: I would think, wow, they are way more serious about Jesus than I am. 07:25.031 --> 07:27.915 [SPEAKER_00]: True, but then I realized that they went to bed at seven o'clock. 07:28.576 --> 07:31.400 [SPEAKER_00]: After nine hours of sleep, what else was there to do? 07:31.440 --> 07:37.710 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, at least in America, we're down to seven as the median number of hours of sleep per night. 07:38.150 --> 07:43.438 [SPEAKER_00]: That's two and a half hours less sleep than just a century ago. 07:44.313 --> 07:49.822 [SPEAKER_00]: He says Harvard Business Review recently conducted a study on the change in social status in America. 07:49.882 --> 07:52.747 [SPEAKER_00]: It used to be that leisure was a sign of well. 07:53.207 --> 08:00.499 [SPEAKER_00]: People with more money spent their time playing tennis or sailing in the bay or sipping white wine during lunch at the golf club. 08:00.479 --> 08:01.680 [SPEAKER_00]: but that's changed. 08:02.241 --> 08:04.523 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, busyness is a sign of wealth. 08:05.143 --> 08:17.234 [SPEAKER_00]: You see this cultural shift in advertising, commercials and magazine ads for luxury items like a mazerati or a Rolex used to show the rich sitting by the pool in the South of France. 08:17.714 --> 08:29.845 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, they're more likely to show the wealthy in New York or downtown LA leading a meeting from a high-rise office going out for late night drinks at a trendy club 08:29.825 --> 08:33.588 [SPEAKER_00]: A century ago, the less you worked, the more status you had. 08:34.089 --> 08:35.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's flipped. 08:35.370 --> 08:38.712 [SPEAKER_00]: The more you sit around and relax, the less status you have. 08:40.674 --> 08:46.299 [SPEAKER_00]: He says not surprisingly, over the same time period, we've seen the death of the Sabbath and American light. 08:47.139 --> 08:55.106 [SPEAKER_00]: Until the 1960s and in some places, as recently as the 90s, blue laws forced businesses to close on the Sabbath. 08:55.687 --> 08:59.730 [SPEAKER_00]: A government mandate at speed limit on the pace of American life. 08:59.710 --> 09:09.855 [SPEAKER_00]: My dad is pushing 70 and he tells stories about growing up in the Bay Area in the 50s and how the entire city was shut down at 6 on the weekends and all day Sundays. 09:10.557 --> 09:12.000 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing was open but the church. 09:12.762 --> 09:16.892 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody went out to brunch or to a sports game much less shopping. 09:16.872 --> 09:20.117 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine that happening in Silicon Valley today? 09:20.137 --> 09:21.039 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't. 09:21.560 --> 09:25.706 [SPEAKER_00]: My dad still talks about what a big deal it was when seven or 11 came to town. 09:26.067 --> 09:30.734 [SPEAKER_00]: The first chain store to stay open seven days a week and until 11 p.m. 09:31.355 --> 09:43.555 [SPEAKER_00]: In one generation, Sunday evolved from a day arrest and worship to a day to buy more crap we don't need run errands, eat out, or just get a jump start on our work for the week ahead. 09:45.070 --> 09:49.948 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was so interesting because a lot of people Sunday is your planning day. 09:50.410 --> 09:52.397 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where you prepare for the week. 09:53.592 --> 09:58.399 [SPEAKER_00]: during football season, you'll be in church and they'd be like, okay, we got to get out before the game start. 09:59.320 --> 10:01.483 [SPEAKER_00]: Look, as football games are on Sunday, it's like, what? 10:01.984 --> 10:03.025 [SPEAKER_00]: How are we rushing? 10:03.586 --> 10:06.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Worship in the lore to go and watch a football game? 10:07.472 --> 10:17.406 [SPEAKER_00]: How are we so focused on productivity and what we need to get down in a accomplished that instead of spending a day to just simply rest? 10:17.386 --> 10:25.695 [SPEAKER_00]: and worship the Lord, we're spending it in our planners, we're spending it don't work around the house, we're spending it doing all of these other things. 10:26.396 --> 10:36.007 [SPEAKER_00]: We're quote unquote resetting, but we're resetting everything except for what matters the most, which is our focus and attention on the Lord. 10:36.608 --> 10:37.428 [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that something? 10:38.410 --> 10:39.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's sit with that for a second. 10:42.294 --> 10:46.819 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of resting and worship, 10:47.373 --> 10:56.384 [SPEAKER_00]: we do, we have to be productive, which ensignuates that rest and worship are not productive. 10:58.527 --> 11:15.928 [SPEAKER_00]: So I would challenge you to really sit with your perspective of productivity, really sit with what productivity means to you, not just in what you think or how you feel, but what 11:16.499 --> 11:21.026 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel most productive when you are getting things done? 11:21.066 --> 11:22.789 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm using air quotes. 11:23.430 --> 11:29.099 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel lazy or less productive if you're resting or worshiping or spending time in your work? 11:30.220 --> 11:32.444 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you one of those people who just can't sit down? 11:33.706 --> 11:35.048 [SPEAKER_00]: I would challenge you. 11:35.770 --> 11:57.728 [SPEAKER_00]: to really investigate that and sit with the Lord about that so that he can reveal some things to you because as we'll see a shortly, I think in the next chapter when we get into it, most of the time that's rooted somewhere and it's rooted in something that we need to surrender to the Lord so that he can deliver us from it. 11:59.480 --> 12:03.164 [SPEAKER_00]: The author goes on to say, we lost more than a day of rest. 12:03.604 --> 12:06.687 [SPEAKER_00]: We lost the day for our souls to be open to God. 12:07.748 --> 12:13.694 [SPEAKER_00]: He said it in 2007, Drumroll, the year Steve Jobs released the iPhone into the while. 12:14.615 --> 12:19.860 [SPEAKER_00]: It was also a few months after Facebook opened up to anybody with an email address. 12:20.321 --> 12:24.525 [SPEAKER_00]: The year a micro blogging app called Twitter became its own platform. 12:25.636 --> 12:38.074 [SPEAKER_00]: year one of the cloud along with the App Store, the year Intel Switch from Silicon to Metal Chips to keep Moore's law on a road in a list of other technological breakthroughs all right around 2007. 12:38.135 --> 12:42.381 [SPEAKER_00]: The official start date of the digital age. 12:44.244 --> 12:52.656 [SPEAKER_00]: A recent study found that the average iPhone user touches his or her phone 2,617 times a day. 12:53.024 --> 13:01.156 [SPEAKER_00]: Each user is on his or her phone for two and a half hours over 76 sessions, and that's all smartphone users. 13:01.857 --> 13:11.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Another study on millennials put the number at twice that, in every study I read most people surveyed had no clue how much time they actually lost on their phones. 13:12.113 --> 13:18.222 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have an iPhone, you can go and look right now and see how much time the day you spend on your phone. 13:19.197 --> 13:29.051 [SPEAKER_00]: He says a similar study found that just being in the same room as our clothes, even if they're turned off, will reduce someone's working memory and problem solving skills. 13:29.632 --> 13:31.054 [SPEAKER_00]: Translation they make us demo. 13:31.795 --> 13:42.170 [SPEAKER_00]: As one summary of the report put it, if you grow dependent on your smartphone, it becomes a magical device that silently shouts your name at your brain at all times. 13:43.252 --> 13:46.116 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can definitely attest to that. 13:46.990 --> 14:05.539 [SPEAKER_00]: I get migraines from time to time, unfortunately, and one of the things that makes it worse is screens, and whenever I will find myself sometimes, if I have a migraine, and maybe I took something and I'm laying down, and let's say it's because a lot of times on one side of my head. 14:06.160 --> 14:09.703 [SPEAKER_00]: I will like close that eye and it's so terrible. 14:10.103 --> 14:18.771 [SPEAKER_00]: I will close that eye that is on the side of my head that it's hurting the most and use the other eye to continue to be on my phone. 14:19.311 --> 14:23.755 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if I use the eye on the side, that's hurting is gonna make it worse. 14:23.775 --> 14:24.616 [SPEAKER_00]: Like that is sad. 14:26.457 --> 14:29.119 [SPEAKER_00]: But, and I've recognized that and to like this is ridiculous. 14:29.179 --> 14:35.745 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll like put the phone somewhere and just like close my eyes, cut on some music or something to just, 14:36.147 --> 14:38.764 [SPEAKER_00]: relax until the migraine goes away. 14:39.710 --> 14:42.428 [SPEAKER_00]: But our phones are that addictive. 14:43.640 --> 14:51.148 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes on to say the Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, now calls himself an conscientious objector to social media. 14:51.909 --> 14:58.336 [SPEAKER_00]: In an interview with Axios, he begrudgingly admitted, God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains. 14:58.777 --> 15:10.390 [SPEAKER_00]: The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook, me and the first event, was all about how do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible. 15:10.876 --> 15:19.829 [SPEAKER_00]: And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. 15:19.849 --> 15:26.018 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's going to get you to contribute more content and that's going to get you more likes and comments. 15:26.518 --> 15:38.335 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a social validation feedback loop, exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself will come up with because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. 15:39.530 --> 15:48.144 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I use the italics, but in moments like these, we see behind a curtain of what my friend Mark Seyers calls digital capitalism. 15:48.885 --> 15:51.429 [SPEAKER_00]: Economists call it the attention economy. 15:52.250 --> 15:55.456 [SPEAKER_00]: Harris calls it an arms race for people's attention. 15:55.976 --> 16:01.926 [SPEAKER_00]: A company can get your money if and only if they can get your attention. 16:01.906 --> 16:06.636 [SPEAKER_00]: And we see this play out every single day on social media. 16:06.996 --> 16:09.401 [SPEAKER_00]: We see this play out in influencer culture. 16:09.722 --> 16:21.265 [SPEAKER_00]: The reason why influencer culture is what it is and these people get all of these brand deals and all of that is because these individuals, creators, have figured out how to get people's attention. 16:21.245 --> 16:27.174 [SPEAKER_00]: and so brands paid them to get in front of the eyes that they have cultivated. 16:27.214 --> 16:32.001 [SPEAKER_00]: That's it, marketing has always gone back to just that. 16:32.762 --> 16:48.805 [SPEAKER_00]: Before the digital age where Nike was sponsored, let's say golf or basketball or whatever, they paid big money for these athletes to wear their brand because they 16:48.785 --> 16:57.815 [SPEAKER_00]: But now the digital age has just set this ablaze because we still have people who are able to sell to their audience, right? 16:58.355 --> 17:05.563 [SPEAKER_00]: But you also have these devices in and of themselves, these platforms that make room for the people to sell to their audience. 17:05.583 --> 17:17.256 [SPEAKER_00]: So for example, you have let's say the influencer who a brand will pay because the influencer has a mast, a certain amount 17:17.236 --> 17:44.627 [SPEAKER_00]: to advertise to their audience, but the platform that the influencer has built their audience on is create it to be addictive, both for the influencer so that they can continue to do the things that is getting people on their platform and engage, but also to everybody else making us addicted to being on their platforms so that we can continue to give our attention to them. 17:44.607 --> 17:58.406 [SPEAKER_00]: So the influencer gets paid to sell directly to the audience that they have a mast, but then the platform because they're also capitalizing off of your attention, I would have their own built-in ads and things to target you. 17:58.646 --> 17:59.629 [SPEAKER_00]: And we see it, I mean, 17:59.609 --> 18:01.212 [SPEAKER_00]: You can open up TikTok right now. 18:01.592 --> 18:05.939 [SPEAKER_00]: You got the people who are live during these QVC type of selling. 18:06.320 --> 18:13.371 [SPEAKER_00]: You have TikTok to get to a whole another level because they have buying right within their platform, which is quite brilliant in my opinion. 18:13.872 --> 18:27.473 [SPEAKER_00]: But you have you scrolling, you'll see people who are live, selling stuff, then you'll see people who are just selling whatever because they can link it to the TikTok shop and get a little commission. 18:27.453 --> 18:33.423 [SPEAKER_00]: then you see that that's directly from the brand itself it is crazy. 18:33.543 --> 18:43.639 [SPEAKER_00]: The attention to the economy now is insane and in some ways I don't think that it's all wrong because I mean obviously this is a 18:43.619 --> 18:48.990 [SPEAKER_00]: a major issue, the ways in which these platforms are addictive. 18:49.471 --> 19:02.337 [SPEAKER_00]: But I like that a regular everyday person can build a community based upon whatever it is, their message is, maybe it's showing a happy family, maybe it's showing their school journey, maybe it's 19:02.317 --> 19:06.503 [SPEAKER_00]: them sharing, sharing fashion and beauty and all of that. 19:06.523 --> 19:08.005 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that is amazing. 19:08.365 --> 19:19.841 [SPEAKER_00]: The opportunity that's provided for a regular everyday person to build community and then be able to build a lifestyle in a life for themselves based upon building community. 19:20.221 --> 19:23.666 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that it's wonderful that the everyday person can come on in. 19:24.046 --> 19:29.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Say, hey, I bought this juicer or whatever from the TikTok shop and I 19:29.654 --> 19:34.400 [SPEAKER_00]: And now I'm telling you about it and it's you buy it, I get a kickback. 19:34.801 --> 19:38.485 [SPEAKER_00]: We go and tell people about stuff we buy from stores all the time. 19:39.667 --> 19:43.251 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask our friends and family, oh, where did you get this from all the time? 19:43.852 --> 19:48.718 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the fact that people could now get paid for their recommendations, I think that that's great. 19:48.738 --> 19:54.666 [SPEAKER_00]: That puts food in our mouth, gas in a car, if it helps feed their family, I think that that's wonderful. 19:54.646 --> 20:01.596 [SPEAKER_00]: I also think it's great that a brand can go on these social platforms and sell their products. 20:02.157 --> 20:05.042 [SPEAKER_00]: And be able to target specifically who needs the products. 20:05.602 --> 20:08.447 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, once things get predatory, that's when I have a problem with it. 20:08.827 --> 20:13.294 [SPEAKER_00]: But when everybody's happy, one side is getting an e-met, one side is getting paid. 20:13.374 --> 20:14.135 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's great. 20:14.516 --> 20:23.910 [SPEAKER_00]: When regular everyday people are able to elevate their life financially, based off of something that they want to do anyway, I think that that's a great. 20:24.464 --> 20:33.384 [SPEAKER_00]: we have to also still recognize when something is keeping us away from the one that matters most in that is the Lord. 20:33.845 --> 20:44.548 [SPEAKER_00]: And so in all of the ways in which these situations or platforms can be positive, we can't ignore how detrimental 20:44.528 --> 20:55.078 [SPEAKER_00]: this digital age can be to our relationship with God overall in our time and ability and mental capacity to be able to really sit with him. 20:55.679 --> 21:06.609 [SPEAKER_00]: The author even goes on to say that psychologists make the point that the very mass majority of Americans relationship to their phones falls at least under the category of compulsion. 21:07.210 --> 21:12.375 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to check that last text, click on Instagram, 21:12.355 --> 21:16.040 [SPEAKER_00]: but most of us are past that to full-on addiction. 21:17.102 --> 21:20.827 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, if you think you're the exception to the rule, great, prove it. 21:21.388 --> 21:21.728 [SPEAKER_00]: How? 21:22.269 --> 21:24.532 [SPEAKER_00]: Turn off your phone for 24 hours straight. 21:25.113 --> 21:29.359 [SPEAKER_00]: Just one day and call it a digital savage. 21:29.379 --> 21:33.064 [SPEAKER_00]: I highlighted this because I was like, hmm, I think I want to do this. 21:34.394 --> 21:38.479 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have, like I already don't have Instagram on my phone at all. 21:39.220 --> 21:41.703 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't definitely don't have Facebook on my phone. 21:42.684 --> 21:44.226 [SPEAKER_00]: I have TikTok on my phone. 21:45.107 --> 21:49.933 [SPEAKER_00]: I use it to reference things if I'm searching for something and restaurants and things like that. 21:49.953 --> 21:52.056 [SPEAKER_00]: So I keep it on my phone for those purposes. 21:52.176 --> 21:53.758 [SPEAKER_00]: But I can't lie. 21:53.798 --> 21:55.780 [SPEAKER_00]: Once I'm one there, the algorithm knows me. 21:56.121 --> 21:58.924 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just cackling and scrolling. 21:59.565 --> 22:01.347 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm 22:01.327 --> 22:09.750 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the only social network that's on my phone and my phone also has no notifications the only notifications that come through are my bank 22:10.692 --> 22:12.955 [SPEAKER_00]: my text, of course, and phone calls. 22:13.015 --> 22:18.161 [SPEAKER_00]: But outside of that, I don't have any social media on my phone and definite except for TikTok. 22:18.181 --> 22:19.843 [SPEAKER_00]: The notifications are definitely off. 22:19.943 --> 22:24.729 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't even post on there to even get notifications about any likes or whatever. 22:24.769 --> 22:32.558 [SPEAKER_00]: And I only see when people tag me and think, shout out to everybody who listens to this podcast and you post TikToks and tag me. 22:32.578 --> 22:35.502 [SPEAKER_00]: I always see those and I love to see those. 22:35.482 --> 22:49.221 [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I don't have social media on my phone, my notifications are all if I do get the ones from my bank and ones from school because a lot of times things are a time is of the essence when I have emails and things from professors and things at school. 22:49.285 --> 22:56.436 [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think that that is very helpful for me and staying out of addiction territory. 22:56.476 --> 22:58.719 [SPEAKER_00]: But again, I still get drawn in. 22:58.779 --> 23:01.163 [SPEAKER_00]: I might be thinking about something, I might look it up. 23:01.744 --> 23:10.758 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where my relationship with my phone can be a bit much, where I'm somebody who's always thinking ahead, my brain goes to 50 million places. 23:10.838 --> 23:13.762 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm always having an idea for something and then I'm on my phone. 23:14.243 --> 23:17.588 [SPEAKER_00]: I think, oh, I'm going to take the kitty to here and I start looking stuff up 23:17.568 --> 23:33.292 [SPEAKER_00]: What if I did this with the podcast and that's not going down the deep dives and that's still distracting, even if it's not scrolling on social media, it's still distracting and so I'm like, maybe I can do this 24 hour Sabbath. 23:33.773 --> 23:34.935 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me know. 23:35.675 --> 23:39.080 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were on Spotify, put it in the comment. 23:39.140 --> 23:41.343 [SPEAKER_00]: If you aren't, you too, put it in the comment. 23:41.423 --> 23:48.694 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're listening to this, wherever you listen to podcasts, find me and let me know if you want to do this. 23:48.734 --> 23:52.619 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking maybe we can do this in the society, and just do like 24 hours, that's it. 23:52.680 --> 23:53.761 [SPEAKER_00]: We turn our phones off. 23:54.402 --> 24:02.053 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe if you have kids or families, people that you care for that need to get in touch with you, spend that 24 hours with them. 24:02.236 --> 24:09.108 [SPEAKER_00]: to where you are physically around them and they don't have to call you and cut your phone all and see what happens. 24:10.150 --> 24:13.917 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I'm thinking about doing this for myself as well as for us as a community. 24:14.518 --> 24:16.161 [SPEAKER_00]: More to come, I'll keep you posted. 24:16.867 --> 24:27.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Now in the next chapter, we take a break from talking about technology and just going deeper into the negative impacts of heri. 24:27.517 --> 24:34.224 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is all in, again, part 1 of the book, really putting a magnifying glass to the issue. 24:34.264 --> 24:38.108 [SPEAKER_00]: And then in part 2, he starts talking more about the solution. 24:38.528 --> 24:40.550 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we'll pick up for the next episode. 24:41.351 --> 24:45.355 [SPEAKER_00]: But in this chapter, the title is called 24:45.335 --> 24:52.570 [SPEAKER_00]: He says psychologists and mental health professionals are now talking about an epidemic of the modern world, HURRY sickness. 24:53.292 --> 24:55.336 [SPEAKER_00]: As in, they label it a disease. 24:55.958 --> 24:58.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Here is one definition of HURRY sickness. 24:58.764 --> 25:03.634 [SPEAKER_00]: A behavior pattern categorized by continual rushing and anxiousness. 25:04.696 --> 25:05.959 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's another. 25:06.277 --> 25:17.191 [SPEAKER_00]: a Malaysian which a person feels chronically short of time, and so tends to perform every task faster, and to get flustered when encountering any kind of delay. 25:18.753 --> 25:30.428 [SPEAKER_00]: Myer Freeman, the cardiologist who rose to fame for theorizing that type A people who are chronically angry and in a hurry are more prone to heart attacks. 25:30.627 --> 25:44.603 [SPEAKER_00]: He defined it as a continuous struggle in unremitting attempt to accomplish or achieve more and more things or participate in more and more events in less and less time. 25:45.106 --> 25:57.909 [SPEAKER_00]: Freeman was the one who originally coined the phrase, hurried sickness after noticing that most of his at-risk cardiovascular patients displayed a hiring sense of time urgent seeing. 25:58.610 --> 25:59.652 [SPEAKER_00]: And take a deep breath. 26:00.153 --> 26:03.279 [SPEAKER_00]: He said this and the fifth piece. 26:03.299 --> 26:04.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody feel convicted yet? 26:05.383 --> 26:06.625 [SPEAKER_00]: Or is it just me? 26:07.988 --> 26:11.332 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, how do you know if you have this up-and-coming disease? 26:11.833 --> 26:12.734 [SPEAKER_00]: It's straightforward. 26:13.195 --> 26:20.143 [SPEAKER_00]: Rose Mary Sword, if Philip Zimbardo, authors of the time cure, offer these symptoms of hurry sickness. 26:20.984 --> 26:25.410 [SPEAKER_00]: Moving from one checkout line to another, because it looks shorter and faster. 26:26.311 --> 26:32.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Counting the cards in front of you in either getting in the lane that has the least or is going to fast this. 26:33.180 --> 26:36.544 [SPEAKER_00]: Multitasking to the point of forgetting one of the tasks, 26:37.148 --> 26:45.563 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you one of my rules to help not rush something that I've started to do because I would I hate be a late fun fact. 26:46.184 --> 26:47.747 [SPEAKER_00]: Being late drives me crazy. 26:47.767 --> 26:57.925 [SPEAKER_00]: I told y'all this in previous episodes, but unfortunately, when it's not just me getting out this house, late is just a part of the game. 26:58.563 --> 27:03.769 [SPEAKER_00]: we will literally have to get ready to day before before we can get all five people out this house. 27:03.789 --> 27:07.113 [SPEAKER_00]: And nobody in my house moves with a sense of urgency except for me. 27:07.654 --> 27:11.719 [SPEAKER_00]: So it is very, it can be very stressful for me. 27:12.860 --> 27:20.690 [SPEAKER_00]: So something that I started doing is once I recognize that I'm rushing and I recognize that hurry is coming up. 27:21.190 --> 27:25.195 [SPEAKER_00]: I pause and say, you know what, I'm just going to be late. 27:25.175 --> 27:33.109 [SPEAKER_00]: And I tell myself, literally I have to tell myself that girl, we just won't be late, accept it so that you can slow down. 27:33.427 --> 27:36.471 [SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to move our fast, we still want to be late. 27:36.872 --> 27:39.235 [SPEAKER_00]: So now you're going to be late and stress versus just late. 27:39.555 --> 27:40.937 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's just focus on being late. 27:41.978 --> 27:46.184 [SPEAKER_00]: And that helps me so much because now I'm not rushing. 27:46.264 --> 27:48.728 [SPEAKER_00]: So usually I'll text if somebody is waiting for us. 27:48.788 --> 27:50.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, we'll be there at this time. 27:51.772 --> 27:56.138 [SPEAKER_00]: So that allows me to reset so that I'm not in this hurry. 27:57.599 --> 27:59.502 [SPEAKER_00]: The author goes on to say, 28:00.005 --> 28:02.011 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a little self inventory. 28:02.272 --> 28:05.040 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, here are my 10 symptoms of hurry sickness. 28:05.702 --> 28:09.694 [SPEAKER_00]: Check the symptom if the symptom rings true for you. 28:10.028 --> 28:11.629 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, irritability. 28:12.350 --> 28:16.374 [SPEAKER_00]: You get mad, frustrated, or just annoyed way too easily. 28:17.194 --> 28:18.996 [SPEAKER_00]: Little normal things are cute. 28:19.517 --> 28:24.281 [SPEAKER_00]: People have to tip to around your ongoing, low break negativity, if not anger. 28:25.182 --> 28:27.804 [SPEAKER_00]: Word of advice from a fellow ex-show expert. 28:28.324 --> 28:33.329 [SPEAKER_00]: To self diagnose, don't look at how you treat a colleague or a neighbor. 28:33.689 --> 28:40.035 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at how you treat those closest to you. 28:40.015 --> 28:44.601 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, little advice for my moms out there, especially moms with little children. 28:46.003 --> 28:52.611 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't really deal with irritability at baseline, but it can be overstimulating sometimes. 28:52.811 --> 28:57.457 [SPEAKER_00]: When you have kids be allowed, you're maybe in a middle or something. 28:57.497 --> 29:00.601 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody's calling and you needing you every single second. 29:00.701 --> 29:02.624 [SPEAKER_00]: It can get overstimulating real quick. 29:03.485 --> 29:07.390 [SPEAKER_00]: And when that you're overstimulated, that irritability can come up. 29:07.370 --> 29:28.416 [SPEAKER_00]: something that I started doing that is helpful is if my kids are like if I feel myself getting to the point of being irritable and my kids are constantly calling me or let's say somebody's having a tantrum or whatever I usually just give them a hug and it comes everybody down including me where 29:28.868 --> 29:31.151 [SPEAKER_00]: It, we just hug and take some deep breaths. 29:31.832 --> 29:33.574 [SPEAKER_00]: They calm down, I calm down. 29:34.115 --> 29:36.518 [SPEAKER_00]: We reset our central nervous systems together. 29:36.578 --> 29:39.182 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we can proceed in love. 29:39.362 --> 29:40.804 [SPEAKER_00]: That helps a lot. 29:41.785 --> 29:47.653 [SPEAKER_00]: So just a little tip for the moms because we don't want to snap on our gifts. 29:49.085 --> 29:52.170 [SPEAKER_00]: The second symptom, he says, is hypersensitivity. 29:53.271 --> 30:03.307 [SPEAKER_00]: All it takes is a minor comment to hurt your feelings, a grumpy email set you off, or a little turn of events to throw you into an emotional funk and run with your day. 30:04.028 --> 30:07.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Minor things quickly escalate to major emotionally events. 30:07.894 --> 30:16.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Depending on your personality, this might show up as anger or nitpickingness or anxiety or depression or just tiredness. 30:16.287 --> 30:26.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Point is, the ordinary problems of life on this side of Eden have a disproportionate effect on your emotional well being and relational grace. 30:26.672 --> 30:29.318 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't seem to just roll with the punches. 30:29.956 --> 30:31.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Number three, restlessness. 30:32.238 --> 30:35.641 [SPEAKER_00]: When you actually do try to slow down and rest, you can't relax. 30:36.061 --> 30:37.222 [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this earlier. 30:37.983 --> 30:40.125 [SPEAKER_00]: You give Sabbath a try and you hate it. 30:40.565 --> 30:42.527 [SPEAKER_00]: You re-script share, but find it boring. 30:42.908 --> 30:46.130 [SPEAKER_00]: You have time with God, but can't focus your mind. 30:46.491 --> 30:49.453 [SPEAKER_00]: You go to bed early, but toss and turn with anxiety. 30:49.974 --> 30:55.919 [SPEAKER_00]: You watch TV, but simultaneously check your phone, fold laundry, and get into a spot on Twitter. 30:56.700 --> 30:59.102 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, maybe you just answer an email. 30:59.082 --> 31:07.554 [SPEAKER_00]: You mind your mind and body are hyped up on the drug of speed and when they don't get the next dopamine fix, they shiver. 31:07.614 --> 31:09.436 [SPEAKER_00]: Number four. 31:10.458 --> 31:10.999 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry y'all. 31:11.019 --> 31:13.522 [SPEAKER_00]: He just takes some de-breaths. 31:14.704 --> 31:18.569 [SPEAKER_00]: If you feel like you're not going to your door a little too much, just open it, just open it. 31:19.350 --> 31:24.938 [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, work a hallism or just nonstop activity. 31:25.205 --> 31:28.729 [SPEAKER_00]: You just don't know when to stop or worse, you can't stop. 31:29.349 --> 31:35.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Another hour, another day, another week, your drugs of choice are accomplishment and accumulation. 31:36.657 --> 31:42.803 [SPEAKER_00]: These could show up as the careerism or just as obsessive house cleaning and errand running. 31:43.484 --> 31:53.254 [SPEAKER_00]: Result, you fall prey to sunset fatigue whereby days end you have nothing left to give your spouse, your children, or your loved ones. 31:53.234 --> 31:57.820 [SPEAKER_00]: they get the grouchy, curt, over-tired you, and is not pretty. 31:59.182 --> 32:02.145 [SPEAKER_00]: Number five, emotional numbness. 32:02.966 --> 32:08.033 [SPEAKER_00]: You just don't have the capacity to feel others pain, or your own pain for that matter. 32:08.754 --> 32:10.576 [SPEAKER_00]: Empathy is a rare feeling for you. 32:10.877 --> 32:12.599 [SPEAKER_00]: You just don't have the time for it. 32:12.959 --> 32:15.883 [SPEAKER_00]: You live in this kind of constant, 32:18.192 --> 32:21.119 [SPEAKER_00]: out of order number six, out of order priorities. 32:21.821 --> 32:24.768 [SPEAKER_00]: You feel disconnected from your identity and calling. 32:25.249 --> 32:29.620 [SPEAKER_00]: You're always getting sucked into the tyranny of the urgent, not the important. 32:29.752 --> 32:38.766 [SPEAKER_00]: your life is reactive, not proactive, you're busier than ever before, yet still feel like you don't have time for what really matters to you. 32:39.647 --> 32:50.925 [SPEAKER_00]: Months often go by or years or God forbid maybe it's been decades and you realize you still haven't gotten around to all the things you said were most important in your life. 32:52.287 --> 32:53.008 [SPEAKER_00]: Number seven. 32:53.427 --> 32:55.089 [SPEAKER_00]: lack of care for your body. 32:55.650 --> 32:57.172 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have time for the basics. 32:57.372 --> 33:22.422 [SPEAKER_00]: Eight hours of sleep a night, daily exercise, healthy home cooked food, minimal stimulants, margin, you gain weight, get sick multiple times a year, regularly wake up tired, don't sleep well, live off the four horsemen 33:25.473 --> 33:30.399 [SPEAKER_00]: Number eight, because good Lord, I think it's like he came off swinging with this one. 33:30.439 --> 33:32.901 [SPEAKER_00]: Number eight, escape this behaviors. 33:33.943 --> 33:40.210 [SPEAKER_00]: When we're too tired to do was actually life giving for our souls, we each turn to our destruction of choice. 33:40.910 --> 33:52.864 [SPEAKER_00]: Over eating, over drinking, binge watching Netflix, browsing social media, surfing the web, looking at porn, named your preferred cultural narcotics. 33:53.350 --> 34:01.244 [SPEAKER_00]: narcotics are good, healthy even, on an occasional and short-term basis when they shield us from unnecessary pain. 34:01.805 --> 34:05.632 [SPEAKER_00]: But when we abuse them to escape from reality, they eat us alive. 34:06.533 --> 34:08.337 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, porn is not good at all. 34:08.357 --> 34:13.586 [SPEAKER_00]: You find yourself stuck in the negative feedback loop of socially acceptable addictions. 34:15.129 --> 34:18.615 [SPEAKER_00]: Number nine, slippage of spiritual disciplines. 34:19.017 --> 34:40.401 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're anything like me, when you get over busy, the things that are truly light giving for your soul are the first to go rather than the first to go to, such as quiet time in the morning, scripture, prayer, Sabbath, worship on Sunday, a meal with your community and so on, because in an ironic catch 22, 34:40.651 --> 34:45.942 [SPEAKER_00]: The things that make for rest actually take a bit of emotional energy and self-discipline. 34:46.563 --> 34:57.124 [SPEAKER_00]: When we get over busy, we get over tired, and when we get over tired, we don't have the energy or discipline to do what we need to do most for our souls. 34:57.104 --> 34:57.765 [SPEAKER_00]: Repeat. 34:58.427 --> 35:00.892 [SPEAKER_00]: The cycle begins to feed off its own energy. 35:01.253 --> 35:09.712 [SPEAKER_00]: So instead of a life with God, we settle for a life with a Netflix subscription and a glass of cheap red wine, a very poor substitute. 35:10.293 --> 35:17.188 [SPEAKER_00]: Not because Tom Wasted on TV is the great Satan, but because we rarely get done binge watching anything. 35:17.168 --> 35:21.995 [SPEAKER_00]: or posting on social media, or overeating five God burgers and fries, etc. 35:22.576 --> 35:28.605 [SPEAKER_00]: And feel awake in a life from the soul outward, restate, refresh, and ready for a new day. 35:29.146 --> 35:31.990 [SPEAKER_00]: We delay the inevitable and emotional crash. 35:32.671 --> 35:38.781 [SPEAKER_00]: And as a consequence, we miss out on the life-giving sense of the whiffness of God. 35:40.583 --> 35:42.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Last but not least, number 10. 35:43.072 --> 35:43.873 [SPEAKER_00]: isolation. 35:44.574 --> 35:48.440 [SPEAKER_00]: You feel disconnected from God, others, and your own soul. 35:48.500 --> 35:54.949 [SPEAKER_00]: On these rare times when you actually stop and pray, and by pray I don't mean ask God for stuff. 35:55.029 --> 35:56.672 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean sit with God in the quiet. 35:57.193 --> 36:04.383 [SPEAKER_00]: You're so stressed and distracted that your mind can't settle down long enough to enjoy the Father's company, same with your friends. 36:04.764 --> 36:11.914 [SPEAKER_00]: When you're with them, you're also with 36:11.894 --> 36:22.392 [SPEAKER_00]: and even when you're alone, you come to face the void that is in your soul and immediately run back to the familiar group of business and digital distraction. 36:24.536 --> 36:26.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, due to math, how did you score? 36:26.279 --> 36:27.441 [SPEAKER_00]: 7 out of 10? 36:27.461 --> 36:28.603 [SPEAKER_00]: 8? 36:28.904 --> 36:30.487 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry about it, you're not alone. 36:30.908 --> 36:39.467 [SPEAKER_00]: Reject any guilt or shame that you feel right now is not helpful, rarely forgot, and definitely not my agenda with this little exercise. 36:40.168 --> 36:49.528 [SPEAKER_00]: The point I'm driving toward is this, an over-busy, hurried life of speed is the new normal and the Western world, and it's toxic. 36:49.508 --> 36:53.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Psychologists tell us that anxiety is often the canary in the coal mine. 36:54.235 --> 36:59.422 [SPEAKER_00]: Our souls weigh of telling us that something is deeply wrong and we need to fix it fast. 37:00.263 --> 37:06.512 [SPEAKER_00]: In one recent study, 39% of Americans reported being more anxious than they were a year ago. 37:06.552 --> 37:09.296 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not something to keep your eye on. 37:09.597 --> 37:11.159 [SPEAKER_00]: It is an emotional epidemic. 37:11.900 --> 37:16.967 [SPEAKER_00]: As my grandmother used to say, just because everybody's doing it doesn't make it smart. 37:17.504 --> 37:23.815 [SPEAKER_00]: And as I've said before, Hurri is a threat not only to our emotional health, but our spiritual lives as well. 37:24.696 --> 37:32.369 [SPEAKER_00]: Tom is Martin once called the Rush and Pressure of Modern Light, a pervasive form of contemporary violence. 37:32.389 --> 37:34.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Violence is the perfect world. 37:34.767 --> 37:36.249 [SPEAKER_00]: Hurry kills relationships. 37:36.870 --> 37:37.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Love takes time. 37:38.633 --> 37:40.216 [SPEAKER_00]: Hurry doesn't have it. 37:40.376 --> 37:50.532 [SPEAKER_00]: It kills gratitude, joy, appreciation, and people in a rush don't have time to enter the goodness of the moment. 37:50.900 --> 37:52.062 [SPEAKER_00]: It kills wisdom. 37:52.683 --> 37:55.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Wisdom is born in the quiet, the slow. 37:55.909 --> 37:57.452 [SPEAKER_00]: Wisdom has its own pace. 37:57.973 --> 37:59.697 [SPEAKER_00]: It makes you wait for it. 37:59.717 --> 38:07.712 [SPEAKER_00]: Wait for the inner voice to come to the surface of your mind, but not until waters of thought, subtle and calm. 38:08.834 --> 38:11.018 [SPEAKER_00]: Hurry kills what we hold dear. 38:11.200 --> 38:24.677 [SPEAKER_00]: Spirituality, health, marriage, family, thought for work, creativity, generosity, name your value, hurry is a sociopathic predator in our society. 38:25.778 --> 38:29.403 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually think that this is a good place to stop. 38:29.423 --> 38:33.428 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a little bit more highlighted, maybe like two pages. 38:34.167 --> 38:42.363 [SPEAKER_00]: but I think that the other parts that I have highlighted from this chapter are good to segue into the next part. 38:42.803 --> 38:53.644 [SPEAKER_00]: And so part two of the book is all about the solution, but I think that exercise where I read out the 10 symptoms of hurry sickness, 38:53.624 --> 38:58.677 [SPEAKER_00]: And he in the book asks you to check them off and kind of tally them up because you're listening to the show. 38:58.697 --> 39:07.380 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to jot down the ones that resonated the most with you and I want you to sit with the Lord about those things. 39:07.917 --> 39:12.784 [SPEAKER_00]: because again, all of this is what the enemy uses to separate us from God. 39:12.804 --> 39:23.320 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have to relentlessly seek to eliminate anything that wants to cause distance between us and the Lord. 39:24.221 --> 39:29.689 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I think that this is a good place to pause because I think we have a lot to pray about. 39:29.669 --> 39:32.652 [SPEAKER_00]: and a lot to surrender and deal with practically. 39:32.692 --> 39:35.635 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want us to just read this book and be like, yes, that's good. 39:35.695 --> 39:42.582 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that sounds like me and I identify with it, but not take the extra step for us to be truly delivered from it. 39:43.223 --> 39:45.545 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we shouldn't have to read this multiple times. 39:45.806 --> 39:46.887 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm talking to myself. 39:47.628 --> 39:50.491 [SPEAKER_00]: We should deal with it thoroughly and accurately. 39:50.951 --> 39:53.854 [SPEAKER_00]: And to give me a 39:54.880 --> 40:01.926 [SPEAKER_00]: we might have to read it again because we unfortunately live in this world and our life evolves and change and we may slip back into old habits. 40:01.946 --> 40:12.096 [SPEAKER_00]: So even if you are revisiting it so I'm correcting myself in real time on that because one of my tendencies I don't give myself enough grace. 40:12.596 --> 40:13.937 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm leaving the Senate. 40:13.957 --> 40:24.887 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to edit this out so that I could give myself grace and also give you permission to give yourself grace as well. 40:24.867 --> 40:29.474 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the benefit that we have and the grace that the Lord gives us. 40:30.675 --> 40:43.534 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the benefit that we have of having access to him that we can keep going back and allowing him to give us wisdom on how to make better choices moving forward. 40:44.948 --> 40:46.654 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to end this episode here. 40:46.674 --> 40:50.789 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys so much for listening to another episode of The Blessed Embossed at Podcast. 40:50.829 --> 40:51.973 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that this blessed you. 40:51.993 --> 40:55.465 [SPEAKER_00]: I love you guys, and I'll see you in the next episode.