210: A Story Big Enough to Live In – Become Good Soil Foundations Series (Part 5)
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This episode explores the recovery of longing and desire in the context of the Christian faith.
“It is a world of magic and mystery of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, and where a great struggle often makes it hard to be sure who belongs to which side, because appearances are endlessly deceptive. Yet for all its confusion and wildness it is a world where the battle goes ultimately to the good who live happily ever after and where in the long run everybody, good and evil alike, become known by their true name. That is the fairytale of the gospel.” —Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: the Gospel as Comedy, Tragedy, and Fairy Tale Friends, What happens in you when you hear the word desire? Is there a kind of quickening—something like curiosity? Or a hesitation… a guardedness? Maybe a quiet opening that feels like hope. Or a heaviness in your chest that carries sadness. Or even a flash of cynicism. What have you come to believe about desire… in your life with the Triune God, in His Kingdom, in your apprenticeship to Jesus? And what if the recovery—the honoring and stewarding of desire in its purest form—is…
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