Focused joy multiplied by time = something worthy of your days.
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This can be just another Monday.
A groggy attempt to reclaim weekend highs with a frustrated posture for wherever you may find yourself in spirit, mind, and body.
Or it can be magical, majestic, and pregnant with possibility and hope.
It can be just another ________…
…or it can be an original.
Maybe your children are offering you a song that welcomes you back to your original child-likeness. Remember that ‘you’? That you never had a business card and won’t ever need one either.
Perhaps the sun that will warm your skin today is the same sun humming a tune into the dirt and vines on your block ushering spring into being out of the muck of autumn’s decay. Could the bloom(s) of spring be millions of lovely questions and affirmations bursting specifically for you? If you listen closely, you can hear them exude via color “I’m an original…and so are you!”
Or maybe this monotonous Monday has an agenda that is woven with earth and Heaven? And what if that agenda could use a conduit, a bridge, or a medium to transport something that, end the end, could transform something? What if that conduit was you? What if you were also meant to be in on the transformation?
Call it whatever you need to.
Just don’t call it Monday.
That carries too much baggage.
You’ve been given wings to go somewhere new, eyes to see with possibility, and hands to paint with hope.
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.
You’re going to have to leave…
…the world of measurement.
Sooner or later, you’ll find that the numbers, tallies, and scoring systems aren’t where the joy and the beauty is.
Einstein once said, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
We’ve stopped keeping score in our house…
Now beauty is in the lead and our hope is only to catch a ride somewhere new off its mysterious draft.
Podcast 49: Finding a “third way” with Aaron McHugh
Aaron McHugh writes and speaks about how restore balance and discover your path to a well-lived life.
He’s also an Ironman triathlete, a mountaineer, and a student of curiosity.
Aaron joins us for the second time in this episode of Let The Music Play Podcast, as he teaches and describes for us what it looks like to live and find “a third way” with the things that keep us curious in our lives.
You can stream this episode and all other episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast in iTunes and also at AshtonGustafson.com.
Godspeed in your music making,
Ashton
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