Jim Keat – Thirty Seconds or Less: Recent Episodes
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Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Download the full episode
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It is here, in the healing of our souls, that we must begin. For in order to heal the brokenness of our world, we must first tend to the brokenness in our own lives. Download the full episode
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It is not enough to stay quiet and comfortable while the world around you goes to hell. You must leave the confines of heaven and place your feet in the flames, to stand with the oppressed and silence your voice to make room for theirs. Download the full episode
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There is a piece of the divine in me and in all of us. And we are called to unleash this love and justice, this divine spark, in the world around us, to show the world what God looks like, to be the hands and feet and face of God in a broken and fractured...
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It’s patient, it’s kind, it doesn’t envy or boast. It’s all you need. It’s a many splendored thing. It lifts us up where we belong. It’s one-third of the phrase that so many people long to hear. And it’s one-third of the phrase that too many people are afraid to utter. It can change the...
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Joy to the world. Wait, the whole world? Even the parts of the world I disagree with? Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea? Joy to the people who voted differently, who pray differently, who love differently? Is it joy to the world or joy to my world? Because I tend to be...
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You are a piece of peace, a part of a larger whole, a picture that is only complete when every piece is both holding another and being held in return. While it is easy to go in pieces, we must come together and go in peace, now more than ever. Do you feel at peace...
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I hope I get a good parking spot. I hope we have pizza for dinner. I hope we can cure racism and heal our fractured world. One of these things is not like the other. We need curators and co-conspirators of hope, and this hope must run much deeper than parking spots and pizza. This...
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Two steps forward, one step back. 2008. 2012. 2016. Two steps forward, one step back. I spent Tuesday, November 8, 2016 working at my local polling place. I saw an 18 year old woman voting for the first time, her eyes beaming as she walked into her voting booth, proud to vote like a girl....
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Nasty women, bad hombres, emails, insults, and so much mud that the entire nation needs a bath. Where do we find home in the midst of so much despair? What do we do when moving to Canada feels less like a punchline and more like a viable option? We echo the prophets and find hope...
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This or that. Good or bad. Right or wrong. In or out. Us or them. Blue or red. What do we do when our democracy is filled with so much division, when these states feel anything but united? The method of this democratic dichotomy is itself the message. We can call ourselves united all we...
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Up early, before the sunrise: conversation, creativity, stop and breathe, sweat and stretch. I walk to the train, I sit and rest, my eyes closed and ears open to the world around me. I am startled awake at the sound of something being dropped – a plastic water bottle in the hands of an over...
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The subway reminds me what it means to be caught up in something bigger than myself, to step in and stand clear of the closing doors, to embrace the cool temperature and the crowded space, to sit with my knees pressed tight, my long legs forced into a yoga pose that I could barely manage...
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Waiting. Waiting for the train. Waiting for a seat. Waiting to arrive at wherever it is I’m going. Waiting for inspiration. Waiting for the perfect idea. Waiting for the big break that you know is just around one of these corners. We too easily and too often spend our life waiting to be somewhere else....
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Sometimes I ride the subway and keep my phone in my pocket. No podcasts. No Candy Crush. I just stand here, my eyes open to see, my ears open to hear, my body open to feel. I see every diversity a person can encounter, all pressed together like a group of kindergarteners playing soccer, a...
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Sitting on the subway I encounter the full spectrum of humanity. One person makes six figures, the other is hoping to receive six cents. Families and tourists and life long New Yorkers and trust fund hipsters packed onto the L train and too hip to be called hipsters further out in Bushwick. Black, white, brown,...
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As I stood outside the souq in Musquat, Oman, I felt the air around me reverberate with the sound of the call to prayer. And like a circadian rhythm, the entire city shifted. Shops closed, the streets quieted, and I realized that there are many things I can learn from the rhythms and rituals of...
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I was a senior in high school on September 11th, 2001. I wasn’t in class; it was my hour to work as an office aid—collecting attendance, making copies, stuff like that. But on this day the energy was different. 17-year-old-me didn’t exactly know what to make of it. Why were my teachers crying? What did...
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May you never run in vain, May your feet always be guided, May your hand always be held, May you never breathe alone, And may we always stand together. May you find the divine in the daily And the sacred in the mundane. May you be present Now and now and now and now. How...
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I don’t wear a watch. I keep my phone off the table when we’re out for coffee. I lose track of time and enter this moment. Because this moment is the only one there is. I want the world around me to blur and fade as our conversation comes more and more into focus. I...
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“I don’t have time for that” – a common complaint in our always-too-busy world. We run from this to that to yet another thing, convincing ourselves that a busy schedule is the byproduct of a successful life (or is it the other way around?). But the truth is you do have time for that, whatever...
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When we shift our sense of time to center it around the experience of the cosmos we move from a universe that revolves around us to an ever-expanding reality that we find ourselves in, a part of a larger whole rather than the peak of a self created hierarchy. I am because you are, because...
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We experience time in seconds and minutes, in hours and days, in weeks and months and years. We mark our life in decades, your teens, your twenties, your thirties. We can even experience generations, posing for a photograph and capturing the moment when four generations shared the same breath. Centuries are a bit more difficult...
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Let’s talk about time. We experience it as a steady stream, always moving forward at roughly the same pace, quantum physics aside. We count down the days, anticipate an event or anniversary, staring at the clock as if to will it to move forward faster and faster. But the second hand defies our extra sensory...
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Silence doesn’t exist. It is a presence felt only as absence. A thing experienced as a no-thing. But, to say that silence doesn’t exist is both true and untrue, calling into question our understating of what it means to exist. And like silence, God is the presence felt in absence, the thing-as-no-thing, the sound of...
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To fail is human. To create, divine. Embrace your failure and discover your creativity. Discover your divinity and embrace your humanity. Failure. Creativity. Experiencing the former can lead you to new depths in the latter. Humanity. Divinity. Touching the latter will lead you to the former. What was a failure you experienced that impacted your...
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Sometimes I run alone, left to the rhythm of my feet and the ideas echoing in my head, the sounds of the city around me, the sight of grass and trees and sky and sea, every step an invitation to be present to myself. Sometimes I run with a partner, miles of verbal processing, inspiration,...
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You’ve got to be a little bit crazy to get dressed, go outside, and just start running. There’s nothing chasing you, no specific destination you are rushing towards. You’re just running. Outside. In the heat. Covered in sweat. Gasping for breath. Your body demanding a break. Yet something within you pushes one foot in front...
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Touch my toes. Shake out my legs. High knees, high knees, and lunge, lunge, lunge. Pause for a moment. Eyes up guardian. Then one foot out, followed by the other. Step. Step. Step. Land on my toes, spring off my heel. Stretch out my long legs but not too long of a stride. Lean forward,...
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Running not only invites me to listen to my body, but it often demands that I do so. Every bit of agony and ecstasy, every sore and stretched muscle, every breath and gasp and feeling of “can I keep going?” only to discover that yes, I’m fact, I can. And whether you run or not,...
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