We are invited to be still, give up drinking muddy water, work in peace, spread rest to others, and dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Feeling like you don't have time, or too overwhelmed, to do the things that matter to you? If you have 22 minutes a day, every day, for the rest of your life, what do you want to spend it on? Psalm 90 instructs us to "number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." How we spend our time matters! Kris gives some thoughts on choosing what not to do today, in order to invest in the things that are important to you and your long-term health and creativity.

You will never have less to do or more time to do it. But there are only 24 hours in a day, so we need to be aware of what gets on our list. It's vital that the things that get onto your list matter to you and align with your long-term values. Have a daily time of stillness and prayer. That's the one thing you should do every day that will inform the other things you should put your time and energy into.

A prayer of reflection on taking Christ's presence into our senses. One day in His courts, better than 1000 elsewhere. One drop was enough, better than 1000 years of sacrifices. The answer to all striving is found in the oil of His presence. In His presence, enmity flees, and peace reigns.

What inputs in your life might be keeping you from walking towards what you want? What have you allowed into your life that you need to trade-in for your dreams and the creative legacy you want to leave? Whether you feel stuck on the technical side of your craft or the emotional—passionate side—failing to express what you know is inside, we need to determine the inputs we want to dial down to intentionally open ourselves to the future that we want.

Kris shares his experience of John 14:26, "the Holy Spirit will teach you all things," choosing to fast from music so that he could let the Holy Spirit teach and inspire him to play drums. Exponential spiritual growth can happen when we fast from the things that matter to us most!

Kris shares his first experience with fasting—from the delicacies of a junior high lunchroom—then gives a basic overview of this powerful sacred loop. We fast to abstain from influences (traditionally, food) in order to become acutely aware of what we are putting into our body, heart, mind, as this affects spiritual and emotional health, and therefore, our creative work and output.

What is your daily loop for reading scripture? Every day we need to set ourselves up to listen to God, and one of the ways we do that is by setting aside time to hear from God as we read, study, and meditate on the Bible.

What are the cycles in our life that we want to repeat for the long-term success of the work that we want to do or create? In this episode, Kris shares the metaphor of tracks in audio recording software to illustrate the different "tracks" or areas of our life: career, family, social relationships, hobbies, recreation, emotional health, personal development, and the most important track that influences and affects all others: your spiritual life.

What are the tracks in your life that you want to give your attention to, building intentional loops to get you where you want to go?

Kris shares about his punk rock friend "Monk John", being inspired by visiting his monastery, and learning of his traditional sacred practice of prayer and fasting while lying in a hole in the ground for a week. What spiritual loops do you want to build into your life to speak to, experience, or hear from God?

Does the world feel noisy to you? There's so much coming at us. It's hard to know what to listen to. Who can we trust? Where is the truth? In this season of noise and chaos, we need time to practice the sacred loop of silence and stillness. To block out time to practice being silent, rehearse being still, finding quiet and rest.

What is your sacred loop for being silent? What is the rhythm or pattern in your life to just be? To be honest? To be silent? To allow God to speak to you? To show you the path through the noise? To find rest?