Mindfulness – Thirty Seconds or Less: Recent Episodes
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Broken hearts don’t get fixed. They become the soil for a new heart to grow. Download the full episode
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Like a grain of wheat falls into a compost pile, Jesus falls into the earth. The damp and still and timeless earth. The quiet earth, accept for the faint percussion of the blind critters who tiptoe over the beads of transforming matter. Download the full episode
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God is inclining us as new covenant keepers to look for these holy moments all around us. Download the full episode
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The night is over and it is time to meet the day. It is time to know the deep rhythms of our soul’s distinct time, to tune into the tempos and patterns of our own communities, to pay attention to the timbre of our political moment, and to arise and respond with faith and courage....
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So what will we pray today? Will we pray with our hands, our feet, our breathing? Will we pray with our most colorful language or in the silence of this train ride? Download the full episode
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The one I follow, Jesus, Immanuel, is marked as a radical lover of the lowly, marked as a revolutionary threat to power and ultimately, because of these things, marked like a tree for cutting down with that crude orange plastic ribbon./blockquote> Download the full episode
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What would it mean for us to shut out all the words, even for just, say, fifteen minutes a day this Lent? To listen only to the heavens? To immerse ourselves in silence? To tune our ears to the still small voice inside each one of us? 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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Perhaps all of our talk about prayer and sacrifice and following Jesus is nothing more theological than a simple call to change. Download the full episode
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We saw this in Selma with Martin. We saw this in Montgomery with Rosa. We saw it in Pakistan with Malala. We saw it in Soweto with Desmond. We saw it in Tieneman Square with Wang Weilin. We saw it in Calcutta with Gandhi. We saw it in Berlin with Dietrich. We saw it in...
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The God in whom Abraham trusted is a God who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things which do not exist. Download the full episode
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Your work for social justice is important and you belong in the greater movement for social change. Download the full episode
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Your work for social justice is important and you belong in the greater movement for social change. Download the full episode
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In the midst of this utterly normal, nothing out of the ordinary day, Abraham, God is telling a new story. And it begins with you and Sarah. And the people who come after you, the people who claim you as their father either through blood or through belief, they will share in your blessing. They...
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I see you. I know you hurt. I have known your pain. I see you. And in that seeing, just a little bit of light breaks through the darkness. Download the full episode
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The juxtaposition between Lent, a time of renewal for my commitment to God, and a red roadster launched by a business man into eternity — this is disorienting. 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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God is utterly in control. Jesus taught that all is forgiven for those who love him and grace will be sufficient to heal each wound. My task is to sit with that. Admittedly, I sit with it uncomfortably.
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When love hurts us so much we are sure that our shattered hearts will never mend, will we love anyway? When doing what is right and just isn’t what is easy or popular or expedient, will we do right anyway? When living the good news can lead to a cross, will we live it anyway?...
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Together we are in a movement to be the beloved community with others. We put our trust in God and God helps us to be bold in making connections with others. Download the full episode
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Our tendency has been to respond to God’s covenant with greed instead of gratitude, dismissal instead of attention, confident ignorance instead of loving curiosity. The prophets criticize this and don’t we know it today. Download the full episode
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Those made poor are invisible, expendable. Women are at constant risk. People of color are in the crosshairs of even those, too many of them, sworn to serve and protect. Prisons are 21st century plantations. Love has boundaries inconsistent with the wonder of God’s creation. So how dare we hope. The message of the cross...
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Repentance is a realignment, not an apology. Repentance is picking yourself up, stepping back into the movement, and being fully present in spite of yourself. Repentance is looking up from your white guilt or your mansplaining or your privileged navel-gazing and setting your eyes on the horizon of justice. Repentance is whispering to yourself, “I...
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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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We find an invitation to not only be the recipients of grace but also to extend grace to those around us. Download the full episode
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Today we show up for the ashes, asking to be marked by the dust, acknowledging that sometimes things break, even us. Our lives crack and fissure and today we remember that we are dust. Download the full episode
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A Six stereotype is that we’re really paranoid. But I think fear looks really different for each of us. My fear is much more emotional: I fear you’ll leave me, I fear I won’t be good enough, I fear I’m too demanding or high maintenance. When I first learned about the enneagram and discovered I...
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I have all that I need. There is plenty for all. What does it mean for you to have all that you need? What does it mean to you that there is plenty for all? record your own // leave a comment // CREDITS // Written & Spoken by Jonathan Grant Music by Alex Fitch Footage by Mitch Martinez...
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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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So the path to peace really begins with self awareness. When I understand that separation is actually an illusion—that when I look at you I am looking at myself—I gain a deep knowing that we are in this together, bound by a greater consciousness. So I actually have to start with any barriers that live...
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