12 Days of Christmas: Dave Andrews - Wisdom of the Wise Men (NS02)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Dave Andrews has committed his life to serving the poorest and most marginalised people in Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal for more than forty years. His wisdom and humility made him one of our most popular interviewees of 2014.
In his Christmas reflection, Dave draws out some fascinating and surprising insights from the example of the Wise Men.Â
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:15.2 | On the second day of Christmas |
| 0:18.7 | Nomad gave to me. |
| 0:21.7 | A Christmas reflection by Dave Andrews. |
| 0:26.3 | Disappoint me, Dave. You didn't sing it? |
| 0:27.9 | You wanted me to sing it? Well, it doesn't matter. |
| 0:29.8 | On the third day of Christmas, I'll sing it. Okay. |
| 0:32.9 | Dave Andrews, we like Dave Andrews, don't we? We do, yeah. He makes a particularly good |
| 0:37.3 | Christmas reflection, was he? Yeah, he makes a particularly good Christmas |
| 0:38.6 | reflection, was he? Yeah, because he actually looks like, do you remember me saying? He looks like |
| 0:44.1 | Jesus. Father Christmas! Both. He looked like both. He looked like a cross between Jesus and |
| 0:49.4 | which makes it doubly. Exactly, yes. Yeah, doubly suitable for this nomad reflection. |
| 0:55.2 | They say there's three stages to life, don't know, |
| 0:57.3 | you believe in Father Christmas, you don't believe in Father Christmas, |
| 1:00.0 | and you look like Father Christmas. |
| 1:01.5 | And he's definitely in that third category, isn't he? |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah, he very much does look like Father Christmas. |
| 1:06.2 | I'll say he's got that kind of grandfatherly kind of, |
| 1:09.8 | I'll look after you and it all will be well. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | It's sort of vibe to him. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, we've had one of two people that we've interviewed that have been like that, haven't we? |
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