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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey, friend, thanks for listening to the Compared

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Speaker 1: to You podcast today. I'm your host, Heather Creekmore Boy,

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Speaker 1: We've been on a journey this month looking at the

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Speaker 1: ways that die culture. And if you're not familiar with

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Speaker 1: that term, I'll kind of basically explain it as the

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Speaker 1: culture we live in that really tells us that having

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Speaker 1: a certain kind of body is the best way to

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Speaker 1: be or the healthiest way to be. But we've been

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Speaker 1: looking at ways that die. Culture uses religious language and

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Speaker 1: really kind of confuses us, right. We kind of think like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that must be God's standard that I eat only unprocessed

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Speaker 1: foods that come straight from my garden, or that must

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Speaker 1: be God's standard that I only weigh this amount. And

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Speaker 1: it's confusing because we all do long to be healthy

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Speaker 1: and we want to be good steers of our body.

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Speaker 1: And how do we know really when we're accomplishing that

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Speaker 1: when culture is shouting one standard and you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, maybe the Bible's not speaking quite as loudly

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Speaker 1: to us. Today we're gonna explore that just even a

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Speaker 1: little bit further because I got an Aura ring for Christmas,

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Speaker 1: and friend, I love my Aura ring. I wish I

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Speaker 1: was an affiliate of theirs, so I could get a

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Speaker 1: little kick back if you decide to go buy one.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not though that my endorsement is sincere. And

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Speaker 1: here's what I noticed. More than anything, my Aura ring

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Speaker 1: is nicer to me than my Apple Watch. And this

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Speaker 1: got me thinking, like, Huh, I wonder if the way

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Speaker 1: I talk to myself is more like my Apple watch

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Speaker 1: talks to me, and the way God sees and thinks

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Speaker 1: about me and how I steward my health is more

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Speaker 1: like the way the Aura ring does it. So if

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Speaker 1: that intrigues you, you're in the right place. This is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a good one. I'm glad to hear for it.

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Speaker 1: Hey share it with a friend if it touches you.

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Speaker 1: We're about to start another forty day journey June third.

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Speaker 1: It'll happen Wednesday afternoons. Learn more at improvebody image dot com.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you join us. Okay, or rings

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Speaker 1: have been around for a little while, but I think

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Speaker 1: they're just really becoming a lot more popular. Part of

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Speaker 1: that might be that the price is coming down on them.

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Speaker 1: But I have a family member who's had one for years,

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Speaker 1: like he was a early adopter and he's been singing

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Speaker 1: its praises for years, but it took me until this

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Speaker 1: last Christmas to get one. And mostly I got it

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Speaker 1: because I was curious about my sleep. And I'll just

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Speaker 1: like tell you experientially, I thought I was getting like

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Speaker 1: eleven hours of sleep a night because I would go

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Speaker 1: and thought, you know, my goodness, gracious, like, I'm getting

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Speaker 1: ten to eleven hours every night. And I realized from

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Speaker 1: wearing my or ring, like, no, I like maybe eight

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Speaker 1: even if I'm in bed that long. But here's where

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Speaker 1: I want to go today. I recognize that there was

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Speaker 1: a huge difference between my Apple Watch and my Ara ring,

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Speaker 1: both wearable technology, but one seemed to condemn me and

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Speaker 1: the other motivates me in a different encouraging I'm going

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Speaker 1: to even call it grace filled way. My Aura ring

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Speaker 1: and my Apple Watch have two different voices. Okay. The

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Speaker 1: Apple watch says, close your rings, hit the goal, finish

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Speaker 1: the task. Did you stand enough today? Did you stand

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Speaker 1: this hour? Did you you know exercise enough today? You

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Speaker 1: at your sleep. You didn't sleep very well last night. Oh,

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Speaker 1: look at your stress. Your body's very stressed. You should

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Speaker 1: about was like, how, okay, this is a little strange.

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Speaker 1: Forgive me if it's too strange. But these two devices

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Speaker 1: reflect two very different ways of thinking about how we

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Speaker 1: steward our bodies. One I think mirrors maybe how we

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Speaker 1: we think about ourselves. The other, I think may mirror

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Speaker 1: how God sees and cares for us. A stretch, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, maybe, but let's see what you think when

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Speaker 1: we're all done. Okay, So let's start by talking about

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Speaker 1: the good old Apple Watch. The Apple Watch is goal

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Speaker 1: centered and static. It asks three questions, did you do enough?

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Speaker 1: none of that. There's no compassion if you're grieving. There's

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Speaker 1: whether you're stressed, whether you're exhausted. It's just black and white.

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Speaker 1: You lose. Sorry, you're not going to get that little

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Speaker 1: this how we treat ourselves? Isn't it like we create

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Speaker 1: Like was I productive enough? Did I eat clean enough?

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Speaker 1: grace and maybe even context, right, because what the raa

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Speaker 1: or even set skulls for you. Okay, So the or

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Speaker 1: ring tracks how you slept. It looks at whether or

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Speaker 1: it came down, and at what point in the night

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Speaker 1: need some rest? And then it adjusts the expectations. Instead

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Speaker 1: like literally my or ring Apple say something like prioritize

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Speaker 1: this is closer to how God sees and deals with us. Right.

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Speaker 1: God is not disconnected from our context. He knows our frame,

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Speaker 1: our limits, our season of life. He knows our hidden burdens.

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Speaker 1: He knows what really depleted and to get out of

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Speaker 1: remembers that we are dust. Think about it like this.

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Speaker 1: God doesn't demand summer fruit in the middle of winter,

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Speaker 1: does he. But here's the problem. Friends, we kind of

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Speaker 1: prefer Apple watch technology or theology. Many of us secretly

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Speaker 1: messier because it requires flexibility and listening and adjusting daily, hourly.

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Speaker 1: Am I anxious today? Like? What does love require from

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Speaker 1: In this exact season of my life with all of

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Speaker 1: these variables, you see, we often just want to scoreboard.

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Speaker 1: Just tell me how I'm doing, tell me I close

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Speaker 1: the ring. And what God offers us is a relationship.

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Speaker 1: He offers us the opportunity to dig into the nuance

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Speaker 1: considers the context. But here's what most of us are

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Speaker 1: like who is it that you're really hoping will keep

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Speaker 1: Grace is not laziness. To go back to it, like,

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Speaker 1: the Aura ring doesn't say never move, The or ring

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Speaker 1: says do what is wise for how your body is today.

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Speaker 1: And that's what's so beautiful and honestly, friend, as someone

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Speaker 1: because it's kind of allowed me permission through really knowledge

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Speaker 1: But God asks for us in terms of godly stewardship

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Speaker 1: Like we've taken this beautiful concept of stewardship that allows

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Speaker 1: is responsive, and sometimes being faithful and godly stewardship is

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Speaker 1: going to look like getting in your strength training and

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Speaker 1: being disciplined and going to bed earlier. But sometimes faithfulness

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Speaker 1: might look like taking a nap, slowing down, canceling your plans,

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Speaker 1: just walking because you know you need to move your body,

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Speaker 1: on what your day is, what your week is. But

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