10 Ways To Refuel Your Optimism
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It can be tempting to lose hope and optimism in a chaotic and divisive world. Today, Jeff offers us 10 practical ways to ignite our optimism and keep our gaze fixed on the victory of Jesus Christ.
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In dark times, let us keep our gaze fixed on the victory of Jesus Christ who has already won the battle and sits on the throne of glory.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Cavein Show episode 187, 10 ways to refuel your optimism. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:18.0 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff |
| 0:24.6 | Caven show. |
| 0:30.4 | Well, the weather is changing. It is certainly changing. Right now it is October, deep in the |
| 0:37.6 | woods of Minnesota, sitting out here looking over the lake right now. And I know that things are a |
| 0:43.8 | changing all over the world. They're changing in your life. They're changing in |
| 0:46.9 | our culture, politics, the church. Everything is about change right now. |
| 0:53.0 | You know, as I'm looking out over the lake |
| 0:56.0 | and this time a year, usually we will get |
| 1:00.0 | literally thousands of ducks and thousands of Canadian geese who will land on the lake every evening. |
| 1:08.0 | And then by the time you get up for morning prayer, they're gone. It's like they're gone. But this year it's a little bit different as I'm looking out at the lake right now. |
| 1:17.2 | There are not a lot of ducks and geese on there, but there are some strange birds that I did a little research on they're called the |
| 1:25.6 | cormorant the cormorant and they are kind of a gangly double crested |
| 1:30.4 | a bird kind of a prehistoric looking bird and I did some research on them and I found out that these |
| 1:36.0 | birds are not appreciated by the other birds and they they kind of go out and destroy the small fish |
| 1:42.3 | and they kind of go out and destroy the small fish and they kind of just destroy the feel of the lake or if they're on a pond. |
| 1:48.8 | You know, things can seem a little down for the rest of the birds and it's a little a little down for the rest of the birds and and it's a little sad that the |
| 1:56.0 | other birds are not here I'm guessing it's because of the Comorant if you're a bird |
| 1:59.5 | expert let me know but either way it is different this year and I know that it's different in |
| 2:06.3 | your life and maybe you need a little boost as far as your optimism goes. |
| 2:11.6 | Look I know we've been going through a difficult time and I was just |
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