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Waiting for God to Act; Brian Zahnd [SSL114]

Welcome to another Wednesday audio delivery of Spark My Muse. This is Soul School Lesson 114 [SSL114]

Today, I’m reading the article “Waiting For God To Act” by Brian Zahnd, with his permission.

Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Brian and his wife, Peri, founded the church in 1981. Brian is also the author of several books, including, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God; Water to Wine, A Farewell To Mars; Beauty Will Save the World; and Unconditional?: The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness. Read Brian’s original article here Find all the EXTRAS for this episode HERE.

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In Darkness, All Creation Waits [SSL89]

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This is Soul School Lesson 89
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Soul School – Lesson 23: Using Fertile Soil for Your Own Rebirth

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All of us have gone through “crap” in life, but not all of us think of that experience as fertilizer with the nutrients necessary for the seeds of new life.

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Soul School – Lesson 19: When Spring is Underground

Thanks for listening to Soul School which comes out each Wednesday. Be sure to listen on Friday for the weekly guest episode too. This week (2/19/16), it’s the amazing Bruce Van Horn!

Today’s episode is about the lesser-known themes of Lent.

LENT means Springtime.
In much of the Northern Hemisphere of the world during this season spring has NOT sprung, but it has started underground. This is a metaphor for our interior lives at times too, isn’t it?

When everything seems barren, rebirth can be right there underground.

Millions of people around the world focus on this nature of the human experience. The new life that comes after a time of dormancy and expectancy in the 40 days before Easter is celebrated each year. See how the themes can benefit you as you consider them personally, even if you don’t follow the liturgical calendar.

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It’s not a broken heart that kills you…

heartbreak — (by Chris O Brien click for CC source)

You can’t die of a broken heart. It’s despair that kills you.

Having a broken heart, means you are alive. It means that something matters, and you haven’t gone numb (which is what usually happens to people after a while…or escapism, which is sort of the same).

Having a broken heart means that risk was rewarded with pain. But not pain unto death. Pain that gives way to experience you can’t find another way.

I used to think God was trying to kill me of a broken heart. Dashing my hopes and dreams. Allowing my son, or my father, or me to suffer until I couldn’t take it anymore. It felt like the beatings wouldn’t end.

At the end of that bit of brutality (as I perceived it) I realized I could be borne out of it, like a phoenix. And that was the point. To come to a resurrection. On the other side was life, not death. All the scars would be a kind of beauty, not a pitiable shame.

Don’t worry about your broken heart. It has to break apart to get to the fleshy part. The part so tender that only God can hold it…and be the only one who can and will protect it in a way you never could understand before. In a way that you can never do alone. You are brave enough for that. You. are.

Do. not. despair.

It’s time for another Wednesday audio delivery of Spark My Muse. This is Soul School Lesson 89 [SSL89]