Yeah, again, the books called Psalms for the saturated soul and Alan Frow is our guest. You can find it on Amazon, other places you can find books. And so we're actually having this conversation, the week between right after Easter. Yeah, so a lot of pastors and church leaders are probably on a high. And then as we know how the rhythms work, particularly here in the States, it's not going to be feeling like Easter.

You're going to steal yourself. You've got to guard your heart because next Sunday is not going to be like last Sunday. It's, it's really important. I was actually just driving into to the office this morning thinking about that just going, man, we, we celebrate what God did. But how do we actually now enter a different season that's not necessarily the multitude to where we are able to take care of the one, you know, and, and still good with joy. Yeah, because again,

we kind of get to the past Mother's Day and then, at least where I live, we start going, well, I guess we'll people start cycling in and out and you're like, where did everyone go? Right. Right. Right.

Right.

And so, so with that thought in mind and just living in this tension, would you pray for pastors and leaders that would be listening to this day that they could just experience the nearness of the Father in this season. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, Lord Jesus, we, we just want to take heed of your words that you are the vine and we are the branches. And that apart from you, we cannot do anything that will bear lasting fruit, but we thank you for your promise that if we abide in you and your words abide in us, that we will bear fruit that lasts. And so I pray for every listener, I ask that your Holy Spirit would help us to abide in you. I pray, Lord, that you would help us to do the real work of union with you, where we pray, Father, that you would heal our union with you. There's so many things that interrupt our union with you. And very often, even working for you interrupts our union and we, we repent of trying to work apart from abiding. So I pray for your grace on all of us. And Holy Spirit, I pray that you would lead us to intimacy that produces fruitfulness. I pray that you would help us to be in step with you. Jesus, you said your yoke is easy. Your burden is light. I pray that we would be in step with you knowing when to work, knowing when to sacrifice, and then knowing when to rest and take care of ourselves. I pray that you would help us to manage this tension. We thank you, Jesus, for your model of working hard, of saying it's my food to do the will of the Father. And yet you often withdrew to a solitary place, and sometimes even with your disciples. Help us to be interruptable, but Lord help us to have rhythms and boundaries that actually conserve our soul and preserve its life. And thank you so much for Rick and his ministry. And the ministry of under bloomin we just bless it. I pray that it would be from a place of abiding to in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. It's been so good to reconnect. Thank you so much for your time. Thanks Rick.

Appreciate you. Thanks

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