…critique?
…condemnation?
…labeling?
…measuring?
or
…categorizing?
If so, you’ve found your ticket(s) to freedom.
Ashton.Gustafson
Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.
Podcast 52: Be Who You Are with Rebekah Lyons
Rebekah Lyons is the author of Freefall to Fly: A Breathtaking Journey Toward a Life of Meaning and You Are Free: Be Who You Already Are (released February 21, 2017.) She is a mother of three, wife of one, and dog walker of two living in Nashville.
She’s an old soul with a contemporary, honest voice who puts a new face on the struggles we all face as we seek to live a life of meaning.
Through emotive writing and speaking, Rebekah reveals her own battles to overcome anxiety, depression, and consumer impulses—challenging people to discover and boldly pursue the calling God has for them. As a self-confessed mess, Rebekah wears her heart on her sleeve, a benefit to friends and readers alike.
You can stream and download this episode and all episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast at www.AshtonGustafson.com or iTunes.
Prompting
What does compassion have in store for you this month?
What is love asking of you today?
What could empathy be offering you in this hour?
How might joy be given the reins in this minute?
Put your ears to your chest.
Learning
Simply put, learning is the space, the practice, the river, and the discipline that happens in between our knowing and unknowing.
It isn’t a journey into more knowing.
It’s the experience through what you know into what you don’t know.
And once you make it though the unknown you exit on the other side with a little more light, insight, and awe. And, hopefully, that new bit of light shines its rays on even more WONDERful questions to journey through.
Learning sounds a lot like faith doesn’t it?
What if we were more discontent with what we knew and more content with the mysterious places in our hearts and heads?
We would get somewhere.
Somewhere beautiful.
Somewhere our knowing would have never taken us.
Next
We naturally are always in thought about what’s next.
Sometimes it’s to prepare for what we know is coming.
Other times it’s simply our internal radar for knowing that something better could be around the corner. And it’s often an unknown better.
So read.
Study.
Listen.
Learn.
Only then will you be prepared for the known and the unknown of what’s next.
There’s no other way to be ready.
Ashton.Gustafson 