Speaker 1: Welcome to Spark Faith with me doctor Chris Sargent. This
Speaker 1: show is about renewed health, rooted in truth and restored
Speaker 1: by grace. What does finding health look like for you?
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Speaker 1: thirty three years in functional medicine and a lifelong journey
Speaker 1: through brain health, weight loss, hormones, mindset, and faith, I
Speaker 1: know that real transformation doesn't come from willpower or white
Speaker 1: knuckling your way to wellness. It comes from gratitude, honoring
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Speaker 1: is about body stewardships, not shade. It's about rewiring your mindset,
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Speaker 1: I'll help you cut through the noise, see opportunities instead
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Speaker 1: Faith starts now. Hey, Hey, y'all, welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Spark Faith Show. I am doctor Chris Sargent and today's
Speaker 1: show is going to be a lot more organized than
Speaker 1: last week. I definitely was having a moment and I
Speaker 1: am sure that some of what I said last week
Speaker 1: was maybe or maybe not coherent. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: try to bring this back around to the idea of
Speaker 1: where what I was really headed for last week. Instead
Speaker 1: of talking in a circle, this week we are talking
Speaker 1: about regulation. Right, we were working on foundation and the
Speaker 1: foundations of change and how we respond to people who
Speaker 1: haven't changed, and then how we ourselves need to respond
Speaker 1: and how we can put up resistance to change, and
Speaker 1: how all of that human interaction can get pretty messy.
Speaker 1: So if you really want to hear the mess, you
Speaker 1: can go listen to last week and this week we
Speaker 1: are going to talk a little bit more about why
Speaker 1: does the old way feel so much easier? Right? We're
Speaker 1: still talking about resistance, however, I want to help you
Speaker 1: understand where that resistance comes in. So the old way
Speaker 1: often feels easier, not necessarily because it's better for us,
Speaker 1: Like we know that right deep down someplace in our core,
Speaker 1: but it's because it is familiar. Oh no no excuses here, right,
Speaker 1: Our brains can actually interpret the past experiences that we
Speaker 1: have to predict what comes next. So you are an
Speaker 1: emotional eater, right, and a little air quotes here, you
Speaker 1: have identified as an emotional eater, and I definitely want
Speaker 1: to validate the emotions that you're having. However, I am
Speaker 1: going to push back a little bit on the behavioral
Speaker 1: thing that it creates, because this is exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Right, at some point in your life, you
Speaker 1: learned that when you're emotional, you eat and you feel
Speaker 1: better at least for a little bit. Right. Hey, I
Speaker 1: can only say this because I have definitely done enough
Speaker 1: emotional eating for many people in my life, also learned
Speaker 1: how to not do that. And so because what happens
Speaker 1: is we feel this emotional thing in our brain is like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, I know what comes next. We're gonna go eat. Right,
Speaker 1: So it's really these well practiced patterns that are easier
Speaker 1: to repeat, and we've laid down the tracks or like
Speaker 1: last week I was talking about a giant rut. Right,
Speaker 1: We've laid down these ruts that are really easy for
Speaker 1: our brain to process fast and efficient. Right, So sustainable change. Right,
Speaker 1: Like you if you're an emotional eater or whatever habits
Speaker 1: you're maybe you're a smoker, maybe you're vaping, and you
Speaker 1: want to stop like whatever that pattern is, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just is like the world is full of these
Speaker 1: patterns for ourselves, right, we create these habits so and again,
Speaker 1: you know clearly I am so far from perfect. However,
Speaker 1: sustainable change requires enough repetition for that new pattern to
Speaker 1: become increasingly familiar. So I don't want to spend my
Speaker 1: whole episode on the intro. I want to dive into
Speaker 1: a little bit of philosophy and talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about you know, this is part and person of the
Speaker 1: human condition, if you will, and how are we going
Speaker 1: to move past this? Right? Because it can be conquered.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of getting our brains wrapped around
Speaker 1: the fact that a it can be conquered. You can
Speaker 1: conquer this. Anybody can conquer this. It's just getting our
Speaker 1: brain right and keeping it right. Because once you've dug
Speaker 1: a fifty foot hole, not only is it hard to
Speaker 1: get out of that hole, it's hard to dig a
Speaker 1: new hole. Right, we want to dig a new and
Speaker 1: better path. We've been talking about the fact that health
Speaker 1: is not a destination, It is a direction, right. It
Speaker 1: is just it's a trajectory, and so we have to
Speaker 1: shift that trajectory. If some of our habits are getting
Speaker 1: in the way of moving in that new direction. I
Speaker 1: think a few weeks ago I likened it to like
Speaker 1: cutting a new path while you're hiking. Right, you have
Speaker 1: to get out your sickle and your chainsaw or whatever
Speaker 1: that is to create that new path or a new shovel. Right,
Speaker 1: if we're talking about a rut, there's all kinds of
Speaker 1: analogies we could use, So you pick your favorite, and
Speaker 1: I'll probably mix them up a lot today. However, so
Speaker 1: what about I know better? So why am I still
Speaker 1: doing this? Right? Have you ever known exactly what you
Speaker 1: needed to do and still didn't do it? Ah? Right?
Speaker 1: So this is right out of the Bible. I wish
Speaker 1: I could tell you that it wasn't. I wish I
Speaker 1: could tell you that it's so much simpler than that.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you that it was going
Speaker 1: to be easy, peasy to change things. And it just isn't. Right.
Speaker 1: So Paul even said in Romance a couple different times, right,
Speaker 1: For I do not do the good I want to do,
Speaker 1: but the evil I do not want to do. This
Speaker 1: I keep doing right, or I do not understand what
Speaker 1: I do. For what I want to do I do
Speaker 1: not do, But what I hate I do. And that's
Speaker 1: pretty strong language, anyho. Right, Like, this entire passage is
Speaker 1: about doing that gap between knowing, desiring right, desire something different,
Speaker 1: and actually doing the thing. And there's a difference between
Speaker 1: all three of those things. Right, he's not excusing his behavior. Right,
Speaker 1: we can't excuse our behavior because this is just it's
Speaker 1: a divided human will. Right. I know that I have
Speaker 1: some a powerful knowing, and I really want to do
Speaker 1: this thing, and yet my actions don't line up with that. Right.
Speaker 1: So a couple of philosophers also struggled with this. Aristotle
Speaker 1: called it acrazia. I believe that's the right pronunciation. I
Speaker 1: can be wrong, but this is like weakness of your will.
Speaker 1: And this is this is what we also talk about
Speaker 1: a lot, right, We talk about our will power, and
Speaker 1: so we think that we just have this weak will.
Speaker 1: But it describes acting against your own better judgment. You
Speaker 1: know which choice is better. You're but desire and appetite,
Speaker 1: emotion and actually habit, which is what rite our brain
Speaker 1: temporarily overrides that that knowledge, And you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of Augustine says, grant me chastity and constancy, but not yet, right, Like,
Speaker 1: that's right, he was looking for this transformation man recognized
Speaker 1: his own unwillingness. So I think you know there's there
Speaker 1: was also I think it's Amy Winehouse said in her
Speaker 1: song you know I'm no good? It says I cheated myself,
Speaker 1: like I knew I would. Right like that gets into
Speaker 1: even deeper, like I knew the pattern, I knew where
Speaker 1: it would lead, and I did it anyway. And and
Speaker 1: so you know you'd feel better if you got into
Speaker 1: bed earlier. You know that it's eleven thirty and you're
Speaker 1: still sitting on the couch binge binging something, right, you
Speaker 1: know you need to go to the gym or move more,
Speaker 1: get out walk whatever that moving more looks like. You know,
Speaker 1: you'd have a much better morning if you were prepared
Speaker 1: the night before. Pick out your clothes, get your lunch ready,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. Right, and there we are.
Speaker 1: We do it again, and instead of the whole h
Speaker 1: what's wrong with me? Why do I keep doing this?
Speaker 1: First of all, we are never going to go down
Speaker 1: the shame and guilt road, right like that. That doesn't
Speaker 1: that's not going to help, right, that is not particularly useful.
Speaker 1: So I also don't want to give you some excuse, well,
Speaker 1: your nervous system, My nervous system just won't let me
Speaker 1: change because that's not true either. Right, we have tooices.
Speaker 1: We can make different choices, and that's oh, I know,
Speaker 1: I can feel like that's hard. Right, this is a
Speaker 1: hard conversation because we do have choices, and there may
Speaker 1: be a reason that those choices don't feel equally easy.
Speaker 1: And we definitely talked a lot about last week, right,
Speaker 1: resistance to change, and that conversation got complicated because sometimes
Speaker 1: we're resistant because we really don't want to change, or
Speaker 1: we really don't want someone else to be right. Yuck yuck. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: we have to dig into our egos and our pride
Speaker 1: and all of those pieces when we're talking and walking
Speaker 1: through change, because sometimes we want the result, but we
Speaker 1: don't particularly want what it's going to require from us.
Speaker 1: Right times, we feel like someone else is trying to
Speaker 1: change us. Sometimes we don't even realize we're resisting it.
Speaker 1: But that's where our ego and pride have to be
Speaker 1: checked at the door, because I think that that's what's
Speaker 1: getting like we're in our own way in that moment
Speaker 1: if somebody else might be right, and there's the other
Speaker 1: side of this coin too, right, So here we go again. Right,
Speaker 1: both can be true. Right, I really do want this,
Speaker 1: and I'm willing, and I've made the choice, and the
Speaker 1: old behavior pulls us into that pit, right, that deep rut.
Speaker 1: So what I want to talk about today is the
Speaker 1: old way does have enormous advantage in our brain. It's
Speaker 1: been practiced. Your brain knows it, your body knows it. Right,
Speaker 1: this is what habit is all about. It Just like
Speaker 1: every time you drive to your kids school or someplace
Speaker 1: familiar like the office, your office or whatever, the grocery store,
Speaker 1: you don't even think about it, and that, uh, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, And that's what happens in our
Speaker 1: day in day out lifestyle habits. Right, you don't want
Speaker 1: to go a new way to the grocery store if
Speaker 1: that road is closed and there's three other ways around,
Speaker 1: You're like, h I have to go a different way
Speaker 1: to the grocery store, and like we take that as
Speaker 1: some kind of personal affront. So like, that's that's what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Right. Familiar doesn't necessarily mean better. Sometimes
Speaker 1: familiar just means really well practiced. So your brain is
Speaker 1: constantly predicting, right, all day long, you don't even think
Speaker 1: about it. But your brain is predictive and not like
Speaker 1: crystal ball, Oh I know the future, but based on
Speaker 1: what you've done, right, it knows what's going to happen next.
Speaker 1: And goodness, because honestly, if you had to process everything
Speaker 1: that your brain is processing all the time and you
Speaker 1: had to be consciously aware of that, I mean we would,
Speaker 1: It's just not it's not efficient. Right, if you had
Speaker 1: to think about breathing and walking and your heart beating
Speaker 1: and all those things, like, how would we ever get
Speaker 1: literally anything done? Right? Do you remember when you first
Speaker 1: learned to drive? How weird that felt? Like, really, seriously,
Speaker 1: take a minute and just think about the first time
Speaker 1: you sat behind the wheel of a car by yourself
Speaker 1: or with your parent or whatever that awkward time was.
Speaker 1: And now think about driving someplace a thousand times. Right,
Speaker 1: you just you don't even know where. You just you
Speaker 1: just end up there. Right. I was coming home from
Speaker 1: something the other day and I'm like, WHOA, how did
Speaker 1: I I don't remember pulling out of the name. I
Speaker 1: didn't even remember pulling out of my neighborhood. So like,
Speaker 1: that's what happens. You make coffee, you brush your teeth,
Speaker 1: you get dressed, you walk through the house and the
Speaker 1: door whatever. Because you're you're not consciously solving all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Your brain just constantly compares incoming information with what it
Speaker 1: already knows and using past experience to anticipate what comes next.
Speaker 1: Super useful, super efficient. Right. However, however, those things can
Speaker 1: also get in the way. Right, those things can actually
Speaker 1: get in the way. Okay, so we have to start
Speaker 1: shifting what's gonna come next, and our brain is going
Speaker 1: to be like, no, right, we decide we're going to
Speaker 1: change that thing. Like your snack in the afternoon, three
Speaker 1: o'clock rolls around and suddenly, right, you have this internal
Speaker 1: committee in your head like, well, am I actually hungry?
Speaker 1: What should I eat? Do I need protein? Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: make yogurt? Do I have yogurt? Where's the protein powder?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll just have a cookie? No, I said, I
Speaker 1: wasn't going to do that. Well, one cookie isn't going
Speaker 1: to kill me, right, And suddenly the new choice just
Speaker 1: feels exhausting. Of course it does, and all you feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to hinge your food patterns, you feel
Speaker 1: like all you think about is food, and you don't
Speaker 1: want to do that again. Right. The old pattern doesn't
Speaker 1: require any thought whatsoever, right, but the new one requires
Speaker 1: our attention, and that I want you to remember this
Speaker 1: one thing. Familiar does not necessarily mean better. Familiar just
Speaker 1: means well predicted. And I think we sometimes misinterpret familiarity
Speaker 1: with well, that must be what I really need or
Speaker 1: what I really want, or that is just who I am,
Speaker 1: Or you tell yourself lies like well, I'm just not
Speaker 1: disciplined and I always go back back to my old ways.
Speaker 1: Well maybe, right, Or maybe you've practiced this one behavior
Speaker 1: a thousand times and you practice the new one six times. Right,
Speaker 1: that's not fair. It's not fair to yourself. And so
Speaker 1: we have to figure out that we're not competing on
Speaker 1: equal footing here, and we have to keep going. Oh
Speaker 1: that word consistency. We have to keep practicing. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna do it right every time? No? But what if
Speaker 1: in seven days you get six of them? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: Or maybe you start with four out of seven and
Speaker 1: then next week it's five, and then it's six, and
Speaker 1: then now you're seven out of seven, and next the
Speaker 1: following week you're like, oh, I'm gonna do seven out
Speaker 1: of seven again, and then you do it, and then
Speaker 1: it's month over month. Right. Maybe you have a slip
Speaker 1: up one day, but you're like, no, nope, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get right back on it because I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a good month. Right, So you just keep moving,
Speaker 1: And I can tell you that the old way does
Speaker 1: have a cost too, Right, When we keep sliding backwards,
Speaker 1: it becomes this place where we don't trust ourselves anymore,
Speaker 1: and we don't trust ourselves to change. And it's that
Speaker 1: internal self trust that starts dogging at our self esteem
Speaker 1: and makes us feel crappy and leads us down that
Speaker 1: whole shame and guilt path. We don't want to be there, right,
Speaker 1: We're forgiven, we don't need to walk down that path.
Speaker 1: So when we start changing, we have to become intensely
Speaker 1: aware of the cost of the new behavior. You decide
Speaker 1: you're going to prepare more meals at home, now you
Speaker 1: have to plan, make a grocery list right, go to
Speaker 1: the store. Cook the protein. Honestly, y'all, just batch cook
Speaker 1: your protein. It makes so much sense. Put it in
Speaker 1: glass containers, throw it in your fridge. The rest is easy.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to go down that rabbit hole
Speaker 1: because I could stay there for a day, right, don't
Speaker 1: have a day? So you're thinking, whoa, this is so
Speaker 1: much work. But honestly, like it's like starting strength training
Speaker 1: and just realizing that, Okay, yes, this is a lot
Speaker 1: of work, and it doesn't have to necessarily do with
Speaker 1: our lifestyle. Right, Maybe you're trying to communicate differently in
Speaker 1: your marriage, or you're learning to pause instead of be reactive,
Speaker 1: or you're trying to actually feel things instead of shutting down.
Speaker 1: I've definitely spent the last many years figuring that out.
Speaker 1: And this new behavior requires some extra attention, so it
Speaker 1: has a very visible cost. But the old behavior has
Speaker 1: a cost too, and we just haven't noticed it, or
Speaker 1: it was maybe noticing it that caused you to want
Speaker 1: to shift. And so remembering the old cost in the
Speaker 1: moment of the hard of the new cost can help
Speaker 1: us keep moving forward. Right, take out every night cost us.
Speaker 1: Something not sleeping well cost us, something not moving costs,
Speaker 1: something living in chaos cost us. So staying in patterns
Speaker 1: that leave us exhausted, frustrated, disconnected all have a cost,
Speaker 1: and when you've lived with them long enough. Right, we've
Speaker 1: talked about this before. It's like the slow drift. We
Speaker 1: talked about this four or five weeks ago, so we
Speaker 1: start to normalize that. However, however, we have to stop
Speaker 1: and say is this really working? And realize that this
Speaker 1: isn't just how life is. Right. Yes, there's a cost
Speaker 1: to the new thing, but there's a cost to the
Speaker 1: old thing too, So I know, if it's not serving you,
Speaker 1: then that's something that we have to keep moving past
Speaker 1: and work into something that is saying like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: know why isn't this easy yet? But how about asking
Speaker 1: yourself how many times have I actually practiced it? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is where you give yourself a little grace, not
Speaker 1: an excuse to keep doing it the old way, but
Speaker 1: just give yourself grace to not be perfect and realize
Speaker 1: that failure is part of moving forward. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you just have to, oh, I screwed it up again,
Speaker 1: there's my day or whatever like, No, just jump back
Speaker 1: on your plan the very next meal. Just because you
Speaker 1: had a donut in the morning doesn't mean that you
Speaker 1: just like can throw away your whole day. You've got
Speaker 1: four or five other meals to choose, so let's choose
Speaker 1: instead of just just like fallen back into our old pattern. Right. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's a cost on both sides of those things. So
Speaker 1: sometimes we resist the obvious cost of changing because we've
Speaker 1: stopped noticing the hidden cost of staying the same. Okay,
Speaker 1: repetition changes what feels normal, right, That's what we were
Speaker 1: just saying. So what happens when you keep practicing? What
Speaker 1: happens this new thing? How long does it take? Well,
Speaker 1: it takes however long it takes twenty one days? Soon
Speaker 1: new habit don't count on it. It's more like a
Speaker 1: couple of months, if we're being honest, right, Right, you
Speaker 1: start two days a week, then three days a week, right,
Speaker 1: But in eight weeks you should be at seven days
Speaker 1: a week, right, like, yeah, or even six out of seven.
Speaker 1: And now you've really created like some momentum for this
Speaker 1: change that you've been trying to work on. It doesn't
Speaker 1: take as many brain cells to make to do that rut, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you've got a good rut coming. You're making that new path,
Speaker 1: You're forging those new train tracks in your brain. The
Speaker 1: new thing is going to become less new, right. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's awkward at first, right, of course, it's very awkward.
Speaker 1: My son and I started doing something new together and
Speaker 1: it was super awkward. He got it right away because
Speaker 1: he's an athlete whatever, but for me, it's still awkward
Speaker 1: and I have to really think about all the pieces
Speaker 1: of the puzzle to make this thing work. We're having
Speaker 1: fun and it's a choice, and I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: doing it so that when he comes back from school,
Speaker 1: I'm better than him. Ha. Anyway, that's an aside, But
Speaker 1: I know that. You know, one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: we give up change way too quickly is because we
Speaker 1: expect this new behavior to feel natural immediately. Like these
Speaker 1: expectations don't match reality. And when our expectations don't match reality,
Speaker 1: we have choice then too. Yep, I know. I just
Speaker 1: have to keep doing it to make it feel normal
Speaker 1: because we've done it before and we can do it again. Right,
Speaker 1: it is sustainable, Right, it can become the new you.
Speaker 1: What does that new person do? This new person doesn't
Speaker 1: eat junk food in the afternoons. Right, you have a
Speaker 1: healthy snack at three o'clock. Right, this is my new self.
Speaker 1: I have a healthy snack at three o'clock so that
Speaker 1: I don't overeat at dinner. Ooh, okay, so now I'm
Speaker 1: butting up some new habits together, and that's the whole
Speaker 1: atomic habits thing, right, We push them together and then
Speaker 1: one begets another. So yes it's hard. Yes, yes it's
Speaker 1: very hard, and that is normal friction of learning something new. Right,
Speaker 1: the first time you try and exercise or stretch, Right,
Speaker 1: the first time you look at a machine, you have
Speaker 1: to figure out how to adjust the seed and where
Speaker 1: the weights and how much weight and where's my form
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. But six months later, you walk in,
Speaker 1: you do the whole thing. You're listening to your tunes,
Speaker 1: you're bouncing around. You don't even think about it as much. Right,
Speaker 1: you load your weights and you get in your body
Speaker 1: stance and you do the thing right. The workout's still hard,
Speaker 1: come on, but you just become more efficient at doing it.
Speaker 1: And the same thing happens with food or driving. Did
Speaker 1: I eat enough at breakfast? What do I need to
Speaker 1: eat for dinner? Food? Food? Food, food food. It can
Speaker 1: feel like a full time job, but after enough repetition
Speaker 1: you will know like, oh, look, that's four ounces of protein.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what that is. And you start tracking
Speaker 1: and you realize, yep, that's four ounces of protein. I
Speaker 1: know exactly what I'm doing. So, like, we talk so
Speaker 1: much about this unliving fresh right, my last four or
Speaker 1: five months of living fresh. We have talked a lot
Speaker 1: about adaptation, and your capacity to adapt isn't only what
Speaker 1: got you into old patterns, but it's also what is
Speaker 1: going to allow you to build the new ones. And
Speaker 1: your body is always responding to what you repeatedly ask
Speaker 1: of it, right, Muscle adapts to resistance. We can have
Speaker 1: muscle memory, cardiovascular system, your metabolism, We've talked about that
Speaker 1: a lot, and your behaviors, right, they can adapt through
Speaker 1: repetition as well. So I hope that that leaves you
Speaker 1: with some hope, right, not just ah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can do this, So I think what I
Speaker 1: want you to to set Remember, as you start some
Speaker 1: new things, don't wait for it to feel natural. Right,
Speaker 1: And this brings us to the part I really want
Speaker 1: you to hear. You don't have to wait until the
Speaker 1: new behavior feels natural to do it because right now, right,
Speaker 1: you're going, what what? That just kind of blew your mind? Right,
Speaker 1: You don't have to wait until the new behavior feels
Speaker 1: natural to do it because the actually that's backwards. Your
Speaker 1: new behavior is never going to feel natural. However, you
Speaker 1: have to do it for it to feel natural. Right,
Speaker 1: when I become more disciplined, I'll start exercising. When I
Speaker 1: become a morning person, I'll get up earlier when I
Speaker 1: feel motivated. All Right, you hear where I'm coming from, right,
Speaker 1: But honestly, it's the practice that has to come from first.
Speaker 1: You have to practice getting up. You have to practice
Speaker 1: working out, you have to practice meal prep, you have
Speaker 1: to practice setting boundaries, you have to practice hearing from God.
Speaker 1: It's only through that repetition. Right. There's nothing overnight. Not
Speaker 1: one athlete in the MLB or the NFL or NBA,
Speaker 1: not one college athlete got there because he just happened
Speaker 1: to be good one day. I have watched my son
Speaker 1: work his fanny so that he could get into a
Speaker 1: D one school and pitch like I know the last
Speaker 1: ten years of his life. Right, Not one day was easy.
Speaker 1: Not one day. So we sit back and we think
Speaker 1: it happens overnight. Not one influencer on Instagram or YouTube
Speaker 1: or anywhere got there overnight. They practiced and practice and
Speaker 1: refined their message. Right, Just like I like, this is
Speaker 1: not my only podcast I know I'm gonna be poppy
Speaker 1: or not going to happen. I have been sitting in
Speaker 1: this chair far too long to think that. So don't stop, right,
Speaker 1: just keep going. Don't wait for it to feel natural.
Speaker 1: Repetition is part of what is going to make it
Speaker 1: feel natural. And honestly, this is the same thing as stewardship. Right,
Speaker 1: faithfulness before familiarity. And there is so much biblical here
Speaker 1: that I could dive into, and I know I'm running
Speaker 1: out of time, so I'm not going to. But honestly,
Speaker 1: faithfulness often comes before familiarity. Right. Sometimes we have to
Speaker 1: be the one to take that step. They had to
Speaker 1: step into the Jordan River before it parted, right, Moses
Speaker 1: had to pull up his staff before the Red Sea
Speaker 1: part Like we sometimes have to take that first step,
Speaker 1: not because it feels natural, not because we're motivated, right,
Speaker 1: but because we have decided that this is where we
Speaker 1: want to go, and those repeated choices begins shaping you
Speaker 1: into somebody new, and that's who you're going to become.
Speaker 1: I am a three o'clock, healthy snack person, right. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that does not also not mean that we are
Speaker 1: earning God's love, And I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: that's clear. Grace came first, right, He reached to us first.
Speaker 1: He reached to us first. I know blows my mind
Speaker 1: every time I think about it. So in closing, I
Speaker 1: just want you to remember, like how long did I
Speaker 1: practice the old way? And how long have I practiced
Speaker 1: the new way? And be honest with yourself. Last week
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about resistance to change, and today
Speaker 1: I just want you to know that you don't have
Speaker 1: to eliminate every bit of resistance before you begin, because
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