After a stressful, anxiety-inducing 2020, we've all come to expect uncertainty and an ever-altering landscape. What better time to pick up Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose by Rebekah Lyons. She suggests two inward rhythms - rest and restore - and two outward rhythms - connect and create. While nothing in the book was entirely new (take time to recharge and set goals, initiate friendship, pursue a passion, etc.), she does an outstanding job of backing each principal and suggestion with stories from her own fascinating life. In her initial story of a panic attack she experienced when locked in a two-foot square bathroom, she should have experienced even more panic because I was right there with her in that tight space. She tells tales of various creations: from sewing and cake-baking to crafting and chicken-raising. I'm ready for a road trip to Franklin, Tennessee, to meet Lyons and, of course, Andrew Peterson. She sounds like my kind of person: a musician, writer, solid Christian, devoted mother, special-needs champion. It was so good to begin a new year with sound advice and a reminder to breathe.
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