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Hello and welcome to Selective Hearing, the podcast
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where we believe that transformation begins when
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you learn to hear God's voice. I'm Julie Dammar
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and here we will discuss faith, growth, transformation,
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and healing. Hear God, grow in purpose, live
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set apart. Welcome to Selective Hearing. Good
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morning and welcome back to selective hearing.
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I'm your host Julie Dammar We are officially seven
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days away from fall everyone and I know that
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looks a little different for everybody all over
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the map But if you are on my side of the map,
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it looks like winter is coming Okay, if you follow
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me on social media, you know, I come for the
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pumpkin spices every single year around this
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time I know like all you pumpkin spice and everything
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nice people are about to live your best life
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and I fully support that, but let me tell you,
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summer is my favorite season. I am a chlorine
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and sunscreen kind of girl. I love the smell
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of humidity, cut grass, barbecue smoke, and outside.
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And yes, outside does have a smell. And I just
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absolutely love spending all my time outside,
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doing things in my yard, hanging in the pool,
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doing all this stuff with my kids. So I am so
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sad, okay? So sad. To see summer in the rear
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view. This is just my opinion and everybody wherever
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you are check in with me, but I feel like Midwest
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summers and Midwest seasons are the best because
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every single year we get to experience and appreciate
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the beauty of Physical change each season brings
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about something new and we get to witness that
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and I think it's one of the best parts of living
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on this side of town. Since we're cruising into
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a new season, today I want to talk to you not
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only about physical change, okay? Not just the
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physical changes of the seasons I just referred
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to. I want to talk to you about the changes in
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our lives. Over the past few weeks, I've shared
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with you how my life has been shifting and how
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my season of surrender has literally transformed.
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So today I wanna talk about the fact that change
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is inevitable, but growth is absolutely a choice.
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So whether we're prepared for life to change
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or not, it's going to happen. And what can we
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do about that? So this morning I was having this
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conversation with my cousin and I was running
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show ideas by him. And shout out to my cousin,
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he knows, he's probably listening. He is one
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of my biggest supporters and I love you. We were
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having this discussion about seasons and seasons
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as they relate to change. And he shared a simple
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statement with me that I picked up and I was
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like, oh, I'm running with this for today's episode.
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So he said, going with the flow, even when you
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don't want to, or even when you do not feel like
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you're ready to. And that really made me think
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because in the past I've often used this analogy
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on the show of being caught in a rip current.
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I think we're all pretty familiar with what a
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rip current is, being out in bodies of water
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and all that and just coming out of summer. I
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used to refer to rip currents a lot on the show.
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Being caught in a rip current when life comes
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crashing down or when change comes and it wasn't
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expected or you might not have been prepared.
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And I want to share like what experts advise
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us to do when we're caught out in rip currents.
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Expert advice for swimmers at that. Because when
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you are caught in a rip current, it's best to
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stay calm. Don't swim against the current. Do
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not fight. So you want to be carried until you're
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able to swim parallel and free yourself from
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it and make your way back to safety if you get
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too tired during that process or if you're not
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a strong enough swimmer at that point. it's better
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to float or flip on your back and float until
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you can get help. And talking about flows and
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currents and thinking about all these different
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things, it also made me think about how my pastor
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often refers to being in a flow and being in
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a current. The current being a spiritual current
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that we as believers are meant to flow with.
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When life starts shifting and lifting you off
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your feet, how do you find a flow? How do you
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find the flow? Like, yeah, all this yoga and
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granola talk sounds great, right? But how do
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you find your flow? Especially when our instincts
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are to fight against it, okay? Our instincts
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are to go back towards what we're used to or
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to the place where we feel the most safe. That's
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where we automatically go. So when exhaustion
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hits you and when you feel like you have absolutely
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nothing else to give, What can you do to keep
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yourself from drowning? Think about it like this.
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A river is completely uncontrollable and water
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is gonna flow regardless. So I'm gonna frame
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change for you and your flow for you like this
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this morning. The river is gonna flow regardless
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and it's gonna have unexpected twist, jagged
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obstacles hidden beneath the surface. Sometimes
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a storm may hit you. I don't know if you've ever
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seen a river after it rains, but it can be. brown
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and nasty and muddy, okay? You are in the mud
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and things look ruined and messy and chaotic.
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But during this phase, it actually means that
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the river is clearing out an old landscape to
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make way for something new. So your success in
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this season or your ability to flow is determined
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how you choose to respond and approach. the current
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so will you surrender to the water and flow through
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the twists and turns will you let it carry you
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until you are clear from the rip and can get
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help because eventually water will always carry
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you to a new bank and once your feet are firmly
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planted on new ground then the question becomes
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will you be fearless enough to take the first
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step forward will you look back at the water
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and actually be thankful for everything you learned
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while moving through it so this week I have an
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exercise for you. I'm coming in hot with motivation.
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I'm coming in hot with the exercise. I'm going
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to keep this real short and sweet this week.
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But I do want you to try this exercise for me.
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I want you to sit down and ask yourself, what
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season am I in right now? And am I truly willing
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to flow with it? What changes am I actually ready
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to make? And can I rely on those around me to
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support me this season. And if you can't, what
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do you want your community to look like moving
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forward? And while you're figuring out your next
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move, I want you to think about what it actually
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means to swim parallel in real life. For me,
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it means you stop wasting your energy fighting
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things you cannot control, if you're dealing
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with burnout at work, at home, at school, and
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anything that you have going on. Swimming parallel
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is about setting firm boundaries and letting
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yourself rest. It means you allow yourself to
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feel grief. It means stop pretending you're completely
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fine. It means you stop believing that you're
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letting yourself drown and you're just finding
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a way to navigate until you find solid ground.
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If you are ready to dig deeper into your current
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season, we have so many resources for you. Take
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a moment to read one of our blogs over at www
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.selectivehearingshow .com. You can join our
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online community or you can follow me on social
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media. And I also want to give a special shout
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out to our sponsor at Brushfire Ministries. Brushfire
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is an amazing interactive God inspired program
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designed to help you discover your God given
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purpose. It helps you understand exactly where
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you fit in the body of Christ, shows you how
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to embrace your purpose. truly. So if you're
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feeling stuck in the current this is a perfect
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tool to help you find your footing. All of the
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information that I just spoke about is listed
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in the show notes. Please let me know how your
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exercise went this week and thank you so much
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for listening today. Make sure you share this
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episode with someone who's going to need to hear
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it and please reach out and let me know how your
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week is going and until next time keep listening
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keep growing. and I'll talk to you soon. This
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is Selective Hearing.