218. Fully Awake: Living with Intensity and Appreciation
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Even when life doesn’t go according to plan, it’s still unfolding exactly as it should. In this episode, we continue to share the unexpected beauty to be found in the midst of war. We explore what it means to let go of plans and let something deeper and more powerful take shape. We’ll reflect on the fire that builds us, the moments that wake us up, and the call to live not just comfortably, but intensely, with presence and purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | You can be a good person, a spiritual person, and do important things and good things without |
| 0:13.8 | intensity. |
| 0:15.4 | Or, and this is the choice that I desire to be making and have really learned from this |
| 0:20.1 | experience, to live with fire. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to spiritually hungry summer snacks edition. |
| 0:29.4 | And we're... |
| 0:29.7 | What kind of accent was that, I'm not sure. |
| 0:32.6 | And also, I think the second part, if you listened to last week, you don't have to. |
| 0:37.8 | I think what we share today will, you know, will inspire. |
| 0:41.7 | Yes. |
| 0:42.1 | Go back and listen to next week. |
| 0:43.5 | And now this week we're going to pick up on part two of our Israel journey and all the lessons learned in that process. |
| 0:50.9 | I thought we called this lessons from the war. |
| 0:53.1 | That's nice, yes. |
| 0:55.2 | So we talked about the war zone. We talked about our experience. It was kind of crazy. We really didn't sleep for five days. At some point, your body is like, I don't even know. What do you want me to do? And it was hard to get back on a rhythm. I mean, luckily there's natural like sleep aids. And also, no, but also I felt the responsibility as well that you don't ever want to go into a deep sleep because not only do you have to have enough time to hear, to hear the sirens. You were worried we wouldn't hear it. It's loud. I don't know. And all of our phones. Yeah. By the way, bless you. I knew that you were going to do that. So I was, |
| 1:27.6 | I tried to catch even 30 minutes. |
| 1:29.9 | Because by the way, we're jet lagged, right? So you were already going to bed at 2, 2.30. And then the alarms would start around 3.3.30. And then you get back in bed at 4, 430. And then it would go off again around 5. and then you'd go back to bed for an hour or two. |
| 1:42.6 | And it was like that, you know, for the most part, consistently. |
| 1:46.1 | But we talked about our Friday night. We talked about Saturday |
| 1:51.3 | and Saturday night, the Bat Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah party. And then we had a wedding, which was part |
| 1:57.0 | of this trip, this beautiful couple who, interestingly enough, they kept moving the |
| 2:02.9 | date forward. So originally, before the trip even happened, they were supposed to get married |
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