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Today, I have a return guest!
My soul friend, Shane Tucker.
He has a new book and you can get it free.
Today we converse about it and Irish culture
–two fire-makers are sparking things…what’s not to love?
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SHOW NOTES
MIN 1
Shane is an Anglican Priest and Soul Friend – a fire-maker of souls – sparking fire for souls!
“Being a best friend you’ve always wanted.”
• Link to my 1st episode with Shane (if you haven’t heard it yet)
Rhythm of Life book link
Intersection of Arts, Faith and Culture
MIN 5
Dreamers of the Day
MIN 6:30
Classic Principles (walk with me)
Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience
MIN 9:30
Distinctive Practices (work with me)
Two Distinct calls of Jesus:
Walk with me & Work with me
MIN 12:00
Photography in the book
and introspective questions within the book
Stirring desire which is fuel for the journey.
The good, the true, and the beautiful
MIN 15:30
Selfish or corrupted life practices
Dallas Willard
VIM
• Vision
• Intention
• Means (resources and tools -practices and disciplines/space makers for God to rush in)
The process of transformation.
MIN 19
Abundant life and freedom
MIN 20
Offering what little we have up to God and into the world.
MIN 22
Dream Out Loud (book)
…is about the 2nd call on our lives building for the Kingdom of God.
Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Ode
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamer of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties,
We build up the world’s great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire’s glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song’s measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o’erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world’s worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
A breath of our inspiration
Is the life of each generation;
A wondrous thing of our dreaming
Unearthly, impossible seeming —
The soldier, the king, and the peasant
Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present,
And their work in the world be done.
They had no vision amazing
Of the goodly house they are raising;
They had no divine foreshowing
Of the land to which they are going:
But on one man’s soul it hath broken,
A light that doth not depart;
And his look, or a word he hath spoken,
Wrought flame in another man’s heart.
And therefore to-day is thrilling
With a past day’s late fulfilling;
And the multitudes are enlisted
In the faith that their fathers resisted,
And, scorning the dream of to-morrow,
Are bringing to pass, as they may,
In the world, for its joy or its sorrow,
The dream that was scorned yesterday.
But we, with our dreaming and singing,
Ceaseless and sorrowless we!
The glory about us clinging
Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing:
O men! it must ever be
That we dwell, in our dreaming and singing,
A little apart from ye.
For we are afar with the dawning
And the suns that are not yet high,
And out of the infinite morning
Intrepid you hear us cry —
How, spite of your human scorning,
Once more God’s future draws nigh,
And already goes forth the warning
That ye of the past must die.
Great hail! we cry to the comers
From the dazzling unknown shore;
Bring us hither your sun and your summers;
And renew our world as of yore;
You shall teach us your song’s new numbers,
And things that we dreamed not before:
Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,
And a singer who sings no more.
A wondrous thing of our dreaming,
Unearthly, impossible seeming-
The soldier, the king, and the peasant
Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present,
And their work in the world be done.
And therefore today is thrilling,
With a past day’s late fulfilling.
And the multitudes are enlisted
In the faith that their fathers resisted,
And, scorning the dream of tomorrow,
Are bringing to pass, as they may,
In the world, for it’s joy or it’s sorrow,
The dream that was scorned yesterday.
For we are afar with the dawning
And the suns that are not yet high,
And out of the infinite morning
Intrepid you hear us cry-
How, spite of your human scorning,
Once more God’s future draws nigh,
And already goes forth the warning
That ye of the past must die.
Great hail! we cry to the corners
From the dazzling unknown shore;
Bring us hither your sun and your summers,
And renew our world as of yore;
You shall teach us your song’s new numbers,
And things that we dreamt not before;
Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,
And a singer who sings no more.
MIN 25:30
The book title’s connection to the band U2
Streets Have No Name
Always
MIN 27
Hope in Irish culture and in the music. The folk music expresses sadness and joy together.
MIN 29:30
JRR TOLKEIN
eucatastrophe
“ a good undoing”
a joy that brings tears–a sudden glimpse of truth.
MIN 32
The Trips Shane Guides to Ireland
Featuring ancients stories, heroes, and revered saints, landmarks, pubs, and historic features.
Find Shane on Twitter:
@dreamingbig
His website: artistsoulfriend.com
Did this ever happen to you? You think the way your family (of origin) does something is normal, and then, suddenly, you find out it isn’t?