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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Spark Faith with me, doctor Chris Sargent. This

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<v Speaker 1>show is about renewed health, rooted in truth and restored

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<v Speaker 1>by grace. What does finding health look like for you?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you have a vision for your future self and

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<v Speaker 1>a way to get there. I'm doctor Chris and after

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<v Speaker 1>thirty three years in functional medicine and a lifelong journey

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<v Speaker 1>through brain health, weight loss, hormones, mindset, and faith, I

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<v Speaker 1>know that real transformation doesn't come from willpower or white

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<v Speaker 1>knuckling your way to wellness. It comes from gratitude.

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<v Speaker 2>Honoring your body as the temple that God created.

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<v Speaker 1>This show is about body stewardship, not shame.

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<v Speaker 2>It's about rewiring your mindset, your metabolism, and your spirit

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<v Speaker 2>to find lasting health without the grind. I'll help you

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<v Speaker 2>cut through the noise, see opportunities instead of obstacles, and

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<v Speaker 2>finally lived the.

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<v Speaker 1>Healthy, purposeful life you will created for. Let's spark faith

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<v Speaker 1>and transformation together. Spark Faith starts now. Well, Hello everyone,

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<v Speaker 1>how are you today? My name is doctor Chris Sargent,

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<v Speaker 1>and I want to welcome you back to the Spark

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<v Speaker 1>Faith Show. I'm back live. I think the last two

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<v Speaker 1>episodes or maybe three, we were two episodes we were

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<v Speaker 1>recorded ahead of time because I got married. So anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm back and it's really good to be live again.

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<v Speaker 1>I have to tell you it's been a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>of a crazy morning already and I yeah. So anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>today we are going to talk about the things that

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<v Speaker 1>nobody told you about aging. And I'm really passionate about this,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm just going to warn you ahead of time.

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<v Speaker 1>I can get really cranked up over this because I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like so many y'all like, just buy into this,

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<v Speaker 1>Well I'm getting older, blah blah blah. Well now I'm

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<v Speaker 1>thirty five or I'm forty five or whatever age you

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<v Speaker 1>throw out there, and you're just you just resign yourself

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<v Speaker 1>to that kind of feeling, whatever that feeling might be.

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<v Speaker 1>And I am here to tell you that at sixty two,

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<v Speaker 1>I really don't feel much different than I did when

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<v Speaker 1>I was forty and some days twenty you know so,

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<v Speaker 1>And not that I have an unrealistic expectation of what

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<v Speaker 1>I can do, because there are definitely days that I'm like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>there it is, yep, shouldn't have done so much. But

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<v Speaker 1>at the same time, it's super important to understand that

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<v Speaker 1>aging is not what we hear on social media. It's

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<v Speaker 1>definitely not what we hear in the news. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>what our doctors tell us and our traditional doctors anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>It is really just aging is just not this process

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<v Speaker 1>of decline. It doesn't have to be, right, And I

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<v Speaker 1>think that that's that little saying it doesn't have to

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<v Speaker 1>be is what I hang on to a lot. My

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<v Speaker 1>mom hung on to it. She was ninety four, almost

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<v Speaker 1>ninety four when she passed. And my dad is ninety

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<v Speaker 1>four now, and you know, he still walks a mile

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<v Speaker 1>every day. He's you know, he's got some mental things happening,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's ninety four and it just started a few

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<v Speaker 1>years ago, so like he's lived a super long, healthy life.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think, you know, it just doesn't have to

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<v Speaker 1>look like this decline that starts when you're thirty five

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<v Speaker 1>or forty or whatever age you know you have in

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<v Speaker 1>your head, because really, this is this aging thing is

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<v Speaker 1>just an ongoing process of adaptation. And I really think

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<v Speaker 1>that a lot of women expect less from themselves every decade. However,

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<v Speaker 1>your body can reach main incredibly adaptable regardless of your age.

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<v Speaker 1>And here's the thing, right, our goal is not to

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<v Speaker 1>become twenty five again. I mean, some of y'all may

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<v Speaker 1>think that, and I'm just not one of those people

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<v Speaker 1>that thinks that that's important. I want to be the

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<v Speaker 1>best that I can at the age that I am,

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<v Speaker 1>and I also want to plan for being able to

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<v Speaker 1>get on the floor with my grandkids when I'm eighty, right,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to be able to get on the floor

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<v Speaker 1>of my great Garan kids. Maybe when I'm eighty five

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<v Speaker 1>or ninety, I don't So that's what we're I'm planning for.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>Whatever I'm doing today is going to take me down

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<v Speaker 1>the road twenty years, right, And we know that out

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<v Speaker 1>of health anyway, right, Like diabetes doesn't Type two diabetes

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't start when you're forty five and get diagnosed. That

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<v Speaker 1>started twenty years prior. That started when you got out

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<v Speaker 1>of call and got a job where you were sitting

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<v Speaker 1>and didn't go to the gym as much, maybe didn't

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<v Speaker 1>eat as well because you couldn't afford it or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's when those things start. They start twenty years ago,

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<v Speaker 1>and we're just where you're at in your health is

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<v Speaker 1>probably whatever happened over the last twenty ish years or so.

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<v Speaker 1>It could be something that remarkable that happened. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>you may have had an accident, you may have had

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<v Speaker 1>a late pregnancy, you may have had a pregnancy that

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<v Speaker 1>just like took you off sideways. However, the goal again

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<v Speaker 1>is not to become twenty five again, the goal is

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<v Speaker 1>to continue building at forty five, so that fifty five

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<v Speaker 1>looks like forty five, and that sixty five looks like

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<v Speaker 1>forty five or were thereabouts, right, and that eighty five

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<v Speaker 1>can look like sixty five. That's the forward thinking of

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<v Speaker 1>what I want to talk about today. So what if

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<v Speaker 1>one of the most damaging things about aging isn't necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>aging itself. What if it's the story, right, this is

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<v Speaker 1>what we've been talking about already. What if it's the

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<v Speaker 1>story that we've been told about aging? All right? Think

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<v Speaker 1>about that again. What if it's aging in itself isn't

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<v Speaker 1>the problem. What if it's the story that you've been

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<v Speaker 1>told about aging, or that we've been told about aging,

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<v Speaker 1>and the story that you're telling yourself because of whatever

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<v Speaker 1>your parents told you about themselves aging, Like, can you

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<v Speaker 1>see where there are some generational tendencies where oh, well

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<v Speaker 1>my mom did this, so I'm going to be that

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<v Speaker 1>way and where do we need to break up some

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<v Speaker 1>of those generational tendencies? Right, So the story kind of

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<v Speaker 1>goes like this, Right, everything slows down, everything declines, everything

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<v Speaker 1>gets decrepit. Right, you start like stiffness, all the things,

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna be in pain, Right, it's inevitable. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be weaker, it's inevitable. Fatigue. Well, of course I'm tired,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm old. And so while there are certain changes that

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<v Speaker 1>do occur with age, and I don't want to dismiss

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<v Speaker 1>that completely, that's just not the whole story, right, because

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<v Speaker 1>what if what if it's deficiencies over time that's created

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<v Speaker 1>the fatigue or a lack of resources, like we've talked

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<v Speaker 1>about on some of my other episodes. What if it's

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<v Speaker 1>that instead of aging, right, it's creating the symptoms of aging. However,

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<v Speaker 1>what if you started recovering and putting yourself into nervous

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<v Speaker 1>system recovery, into gastrointestinal recovery, mental health recovery, Like, what

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<v Speaker 1>if we put ourselves into recovery mode? What would happen

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<v Speaker 1>even at X age right? Forty five fifty five sixty five.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I mentioned it often that I kind of

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<v Speaker 1>crashed a little bit at last Christmas. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I can see that four or five bad nights of

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<v Speaker 1>sleep make a big difference in my energy level and

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<v Speaker 1>my ability to concentrate. And so I'm much much more

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<v Speaker 1>aware of recovery time now and how much more important

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<v Speaker 1>that is. Like I didn't sleep all Monday night, and

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<v Speaker 1>I was supposed to go in on Tuesday for leg day,

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<v Speaker 1>like Tuesday's leg day, and I realized that I was

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<v Speaker 1>not recovered well. So I waited until yesterday for leg day.

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<v Speaker 1>And when I woke up this morning, I'm like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I definitely had leg day. And I usually take a

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<v Speaker 1>day off after leg day before I go back into

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<v Speaker 1>arm and legs back to back, So I really I

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<v Speaker 1>decided today that I was just going to take a

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<v Speaker 1>really long walk with a dog. We walked like three

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<v Speaker 1>and a half miles, got into zone two, which is

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<v Speaker 1>that great happy space of cardiovascular time, and like, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So I just adapted to the way that my body's

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<v Speaker 1>feeling and really becoming really more cognizant of that. So

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<v Speaker 1>here's the thing. Your body never stops adapting. Okay. We

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<v Speaker 1>adapt to exercise easy or not. We adapt to learning.

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<v Speaker 1>We can adapt to stress, to some extent. Right, we

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<v Speaker 1>adapt to our environment hot, cold, whatever, We adapt, adapt

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<v Speaker 1>to our relationships, some good, some not so good, and

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<v Speaker 1>we adapt to challenges. And that doesn't stop at forty fifty,

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<v Speaker 1>seventy eighty five, right, life, all those things happen. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know there's no lack of stories even on social

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<v Speaker 1>media about people learning new things at an older age. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>new languages, new travels, new skills, dancing, all these things

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<v Speaker 1>when you're over seventy over eighty, right, you see the

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<v Speaker 1>woman ninety two year old woman scaling a wall or

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<v Speaker 1>some silliness. But like, that's the capacity that we can have.

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<v Speaker 1>We can build muscle up until the day we die,

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<v Speaker 1>if we choose to, we can build it. Does it

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<v Speaker 1>come easy like it did in our twenties, Probably not? However, right,

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<v Speaker 1>it can still happen. We can still adapt to that.

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<v Speaker 1>We can improve our balance like standing on one foot

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<v Speaker 1>later in life, we can improve our cardiovascular fitness. We

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<v Speaker 1>can strengthen relationships, we can shift relationships, we can shift

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<v Speaker 1>our mental health, and we can definitely grow spiritually throughout

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<v Speaker 1>our life. And then what wisdom do we get to

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<v Speaker 1>bring into that right later in our life? So aging

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<v Speaker 1>is really about adaptation, and it doesn't eliminate adaptation. The

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<v Speaker 1>body remains trainable, and I love that, right, the brain

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<v Speaker 1>remains trainable. When I first started seminary a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>years ago, y'all, I couldn't concentrate for more than about

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<v Speaker 1>twenty or thirty minutes. Like, I just didn't have the

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<v Speaker 1>capacity the brain train that I needed to move into

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<v Speaker 1>the amount of reading that was necessary. And I hear

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<v Speaker 1>it all the time. Oh I fall asleep when I read,

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<v Speaker 1>blah blah blah. Yes, and this was my new job.

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<v Speaker 1>This was part of my new job, right, Like I

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<v Speaker 1>have to read a lot, and so over the past

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<v Speaker 1>two and a half years, i've I can sit down

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<v Speaker 1>and read for three or four hours. Do I take breaks? Sure,

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<v Speaker 1>about every hour and a half. However I can get

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<v Speaker 1>right back in it. And it's just a trained brain.

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<v Speaker 1>So our body remains trainable, our brain remains trainable, on

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<v Speaker 1>our soul remains teachable. So in all of that, it's

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<v Speaker 1>really about capacity and not perfection. And I have said this,

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<v Speaker 1>like progress is so much more impressive than perfection. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>progress is so much more impressive than perfection. And I

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<v Speaker 1>know that I spent a lot of years pursuing perfection.

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<v Speaker 1>And I know that my audience has spent a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of years pursuing perfection because the chatrict's like, right, the

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<v Speaker 1>perfect diet, the perfect workout, the perfect fat reducing thing,

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<v Speaker 1>the perfect routine, the perfect body whatever. But life really

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't reward perfection. You will be rewarded in capacity and

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<v Speaker 1>your ability to do more right, your ability to recover better,

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<v Speaker 1>your ability to adapt and respond as opposed to react right,

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<v Speaker 1>to carry responsibility in a way that allows Jesus into

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<v Speaker 1>that heavy and into the trials of your life that

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<v Speaker 1>you realize that you need help. And it's not weakness

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<v Speaker 1>to ask for that help. We navigate difficulties so much

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<v Speaker 1>better without falling apart. So think about two women facing

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<v Speaker 1>the same challenge. Right, one is completely overwhelmed and the

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<v Speaker 1>other one handles it well most of the time. The

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<v Speaker 1>difference isn't about intelligence at all, right, It isn't motivation.

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<v Speaker 1>The overhepwhelmed woman wants to be able to handle it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's really about capacity and her ability to step back

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<v Speaker 1>and say, Okay, what's important here, what needs to come first?

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<v Speaker 1>And sometimes when we are in overwhelmed, it's really hard

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<v Speaker 1>to see that, and we haven't trained ourselves to slow

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<v Speaker 1>down in those moments of overwhelm, so that like overwhelmed

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<v Speaker 1>to me, just feels like this giant tsunami. But if

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<v Speaker 1>we can take a deep breath and as the tide recedes,

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<v Speaker 1>we can go Okay, that was there's the tsunami. Now

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<v Speaker 1>I can look at it and figure out a better

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<v Speaker 1>way to handle it. So I think that there's a

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<v Speaker 1>reality in midlife that we are managing so many things

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<v Speaker 1>careers and marriages and aging parents, adult children, finances, sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>is becoming strong enough mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically to carry

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<v Speaker 1>what life requires. Right. Y'all know, I took care of

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<v Speaker 1>in there that I had to figure out how to

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<v Speaker 1>of her in a healthier way. Right, So that's where

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<v Speaker 1>the goal is becoming strong enough, And it's not about

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<v Speaker 1>carrying things perfectly. It's about becoming strong enough to carry

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<v Speaker 1>things better, right, not some kind of perfection that you

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<v Speaker 1>see on Instagram. In those moments and y'all. You know

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<v Speaker 1>that strength is not necessarily bigger muscles, right, And you

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<v Speaker 1>know that we all think like, Okay, some squad, some dumbbell,

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<v Speaker 1>some gym, I hate the gym, blah, I don't. I

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<v Speaker 1>love the gym. Put that's because I put my air

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<v Speaker 1>attention to anybody else anyway. But yes, physical strength does matter,

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<v Speaker 1>but it can also show up not just in that

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<v Speaker 1>physical strength, right, the ability to move through life and

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<v Speaker 1>pop up and downstairs or whatever, but it also shows

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<v Speaker 1>up an emotional strength. And thinking about this this morning,

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<v Speaker 1>like our mental and emotional ability to accept whatever things

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<v Speaker 1>are happening at the current moment, you know, like not

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<v Speaker 1>just not let it go, right, We do have to

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<v Speaker 1>let go, but in that process we have to open

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<v Speaker 1>our hand and look at what is happening here. And

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't just like okay, let it go. No, it's

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<v Speaker 1>looking at it and saying, well, okay, I see this thing,

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<v Speaker 1>and I have to accept that this is where I'm at. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>It's really about the ability to accept and the quicker

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<v Speaker 1>that we can accept what's happening, the quicker we can

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<v Speaker 1>move into how to solve it. So aging is about

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<v Speaker 1>being able to move quicker into solutions and not hanging

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<v Speaker 1>on to things from the past. What about relational strength,

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<v Speaker 1>your ability to communicate and forgive and stay connected and

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<v Speaker 1>stay engaged in all of that? And spiritual strength like

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<v Speaker 1>our trust in God when circumstances are so challenging that

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<v Speaker 1>we don't see a way through, but He already sees

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<v Speaker 1>our way through. So the strongest women I know really

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<v Speaker 1>are not necessarily the women who live the most way, right.

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<v Speaker 1>They are the women who have really developed this capacity

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<v Speaker 1>in every area of their life and are working on

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<v Speaker 1>capacity in an area that they know that it's not

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<v Speaker 1>perfect and it's never going to be perfect. So I

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<v Speaker 1>just I want to kind of come into the last

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of this with some maybe some hidden strength builders. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>We may think that strength comes from comfort, like we oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I need some comfort food or I just need to

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<v Speaker 1>tell and be comfy, But really we gain strength through challenge, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and recovery from those challenges. We've talked about muscle recovery,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's where the strength is built is in the recovery,

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<v Speaker 1>not necessarily at the gym. But this isn't this is

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<v Speaker 1>not overwhelming challenge this is appropriate challenge. That's what's going

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<v Speaker 1>to build strength, Like muscles become stronger when they're challenged,

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<v Speaker 1>but also when they recover well, resilience grows because adversity

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<v Speaker 1>is encountered and we can recover well. Right, Wisdom develops

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<v Speaker 1>through experience and what we see from from our years

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<v Speaker 1>along the way and gather that up right in recovery

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<v Speaker 1>and slowing down to see what we've learned, and faith

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<v Speaker 1>really deep and through this crazy dependence that when we

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<v Speaker 1>lean into that, it gets better, right, it just gets better.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're not talking about trauma. We're talking about growth,

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<v Speaker 1>right the body. The body really grows when demands are

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<v Speaker 1>balanced with recovery. And this is what we connected this.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to connect this to my last episode because

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<v Speaker 1>that we talked a lot about recovery and how important

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<v Speaker 1>recovery is. Stress without recovery just leads to exhaustion, right,

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<v Speaker 1>Challenge without recovery leads to actually lower strength and more overwhelm.

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<v Speaker 1>But challenge with recovery leads to growth. And strength is

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<v Speaker 1>built in this space between the challenge and the recovery,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's where we build the strength that we're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about at this time. So let's bring in stewardship, because

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<v Speaker 1>you all know that this is about stewarding our body

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<v Speaker 1>and stewarding things around us. But one of the cool

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<v Speaker 1>things in Scripture is that growth is expected right from

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<v Speaker 1>the beginning. From the beginning, right, Trees grow, Seeds are planted,

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<v Speaker 1>and plants grow, Disciples grow, Faith grows. God designed living

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<v Speaker 1>things to develop, and he expects that development in our

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<v Speaker 1>faith too. We're not just supposed to remain stagnant. Yep

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<v Speaker 1>I believe in Christ. Yep I believe in God. And

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<v Speaker 1>that's where we stop.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>This is sanctification. This is growth and stewardship isn't preserving

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<v Speaker 1>yourself in some sort of comfort bubble, right, it's participating

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<v Speaker 1>in healthy growth and strength. And as we age, we

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<v Speaker 1>can look back on the times that we kind of

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<v Speaker 1>kept ourselves in a bubble and isolated, and finally when

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<v Speaker 1>we burst out of it was when the growth and

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<v Speaker 1>the change happened. So it's really about participating in healthy growth.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>This means you continue to learn, Right, I'm in seminary.

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<v Speaker 1>That doesn't mean you need to go to seminary, but

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<v Speaker 1>maybe you get on your second language that you always wanted,

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<v Speaker 1>or the piano or something that you always wanted to learn,

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<v Speaker 1>Like you want to learn how to paint, go learn

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<v Speaker 1>how to paint right movement. If you've never been to

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<v Speaker 1>the gym before, that is fine. Get your sneakers. They

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<v Speaker 1>don't have to be cute, but they need to be new,

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<v Speaker 1>and go to hit the sidewalk or a treadmill or

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<v Speaker 1>someplace that you can enjoy nature just for a little while.

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<v Speaker 1>What about serving people right That gets us out of

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<v Speaker 1>ourself and into the world, and we can get so

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<v Speaker 1>much more out of that. What about connection? We can

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<v Speaker 1>connect in that service place we can trust we can

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<v Speaker 1>adapt through every single season of our life life. So

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<v Speaker 1>stewardship isn't really maintaining what you have, it's faithfully developing

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<v Speaker 1>what you've been given. So anyway, over the last four weeks,

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<v Speaker 1>we've learned that metabolism is life, stress requires recovery, fatigue

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely reflects demands, and strength builds capacity. And so next

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<v Speaker 1>week we're going to wrap all those up into a

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<v Speaker 1>really fun episode. Because health is not about perfection. Health

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<v Speaker 1>is not the absence of symptoms. Health is not a

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<v Speaker 1>perfect lab report. Health is the ability to adapt, recover,

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<v Speaker 1>and engage fully in the life that God has given

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<v Speaker 1>you and that's exactly where we're headed next week. So

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<v Speaker 1>the body, the mind, emotions, the spirit can really remain

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<v Speaker 1>capable of growth and adaptation throughout your life. Strength is

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<v Speaker 1>not about perfect It's about the capacity to meet the

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<v Speaker 1>demands of life with resilience and wisdom and faithfulness. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>So I want to leave you with that today and

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<v Speaker 1>just remember that we are here to renew health rooted

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<v Speaker 1>in truth and restored by grace. And I love you guys,

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