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43. Consecrating a Crisis - Thomas McConkie

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🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We know it’s been an eventful, and uncertain, and even scary couple of weeks for everybody. We’ve been grappling with our “new normal,” just like everyone else, and have been feeling the anxiety, uncertainty, and isolation that we know a lot of people are.

We asked Thomas McConkie to come on the podcast and share the way he’s thinking about what’s been happening; Thomas always seems to have an ability to find the calm in the middle of a storm, and we think everyone that takes a moment to listen will really benefit from what he shares. As we spoke with him, he really helped us gain some insights that we think are transcendent but also practical.

Thomas is continuing his community mindfulness practice at Lower Lights School of Wisdom, which normally meets in person but has moved online — you can see the upcoming event dates at lowerlightswisdom.org.

He’ll also be starting the upcoming season of his podcast, Mindfulness+, a bit early in light of our current situation, and is anticipating releasing his first episode on Wednesday, April 1, so make sure to go subscribe if you’re interested in hearing more insights from Thomas

Lower Lights: https://lowerlightswisdom.org/
Mindfulness+: https://mindfulnessplus.org/

02:36 What is Alembic?

08:16 Getting on the path we would like to be on

13:27 Dealing with the anxious mind

22:42 A mindfulness exercise led by Thomas

39:18 Finding the gold in mindfulness practice

Transcript

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Hey everybody. Before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from

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Faith Matters Publishing. It's called Restoration by Patrick Mason. When we started the

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Faith Matters Publishing project one of our goals was to explore what

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restoration really means as the church moves into its third century

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and that's exactly what Patrick does. If you're like me and you've ever wondered how restoring Israel

0:19.9

can be relevant to you, you've got to read this book. Patrick shows how as members of the

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church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness and healing to the

0:28.2

marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and it has

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totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.

0:36.0

I really can't recommend this book strongly enough.

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It's the kind of book you want everyone you know to be reading to so that you can talk about it. So you can pick up a copy for

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yourself or for your friends and family at Desert Book, Amazon, Audible, and Apple

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Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the

0:51.5

near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.

0:54.0

Hi everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.

1:02.0

We know it's been an eventful and uncertain and even scary couple of weeks for everybody.

1:06.5

We've been grappling with our new normal just like everybody else and I've been feeling the anxiety

1:10.1

and isolation that we know a lot of people are. We ask Thomas McConkey to come on the podcast and share the way that he's been thinking about what's happening.

1:17.0

Thomas always seems to have an ability to find calm in the middle of a storm,

1:20.0

and we think that everybody that takes a moment to listen will really benefit from what he shares.

1:24.7

As we spoke with him, he really helped us gain some insights that we think are transcendent, but

1:28.1

also practical.

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