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“It’s the little things that make us who we are!”
Stress. Anxiety. Constant headaches. Are you suffering from a life of hurry?
In this episode, Jennifer Dukes Lee shares from her newest book, Growing Slow: Lessons on Un-Hurrying Your Heart from an Accidental Farm Girl. Running full-force as a news reporter, Jennifer and her husband discovered that they could no longer sustain the pace of their city life. It was when they transitioned back to their family farm that God revealed the powerful gift of slowing down and recognizing the value in each season of life.
So many of us suffer from the constant pressure to produce results, hurry to the next stage in life, prove ourselves or be more than we are. But God never intended for His people to live that way. Jennifer shares how we can live the life we’ve been given without regrets when we learn to flourish in the season we are currently in.
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Important Takeaways from Show
- Slowing down requires that we adopt a new mindset
- Having the life we truly desire means we have to slow down rather than speed up
- Time is not the enemy; it can be your friend
- God makes everything beautiful in its time (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
- If you pick up the phone first thing in the morning, you are already sending your body into fight or flight mode for the day
- Growing slow becomes a super power
- Growing slow gives us permission to call out and validate the good, small things
- After planting seeds, there is a period of time where it looks like nothing is happening
- Like farming, winter seasons in our lives are very necessary, slow, and healing
- In agriculture, 1/4 of the entire growing season is in the dormitory of winter
- God can slow down seasons of productivity to create something new in the soil of our hearts
- We were not made to be productive all the time; we cannot create constant harvest and results
- Winter is an opportunity to celebrate, rest and prepare our hearts for the coming season
- Sometimes it is when we come to the end of ourselves that we finally make room for Jesus
- Hurry does not always have to do with our calendar or to-do list
- A hurried heart can make you feel behind in life
- Establish your own unhurried life habits
3 Practical Tips for Growing Slow and Becoming More Productive:
- Get up 10 minutes earlier than normal to intentionally welcome the day and give it all to God
- Sit down while eating to fully taste and enjoy it
- Stop multi-tasking
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1
Links from Show
NEW BOOK: Growing Slow: Lessons on Un-Hurrying Your Heart from an Accidental Farm Girl
Habbits of the Unhurried PDF
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