55. Eff Perfection: Let’s Rest in the Rubble Together

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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1. What if we deleted the picture in our head of how it’s “supposed to be,” and looked at “what is” right now, as enough? 2. What makes a good apology–and why we shouldn't pretend that it is possible to reorder what we did to people. 3. Glennon describes “the ache”–and how it’s really love, coming and going, and making life more beautiful. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. It's a special week out and about.
0:18.9	It's about to be Christmas. For some of us, thanks for spending your time with us this
0:28.8	I've been thinking a lot about the Christmas story and how it has always been so
0:35.5	deeply important to me. So much so that once when Craig and I were married and Chase was a baby,
0:41.8	I volunteered our entire family to be married Jesus and Joseph at our church. Christmas
0:49.6	evenativity play. Just because I just wanted to be closer and closer to the story, I just needed
0:55.8	to be closer to the story. I needed to crawl inside the story somehow and so we we volunteered. I
1:01.8	volunteered for Craig, such a good sport in his robe and sandals and beard in front of all of his
1:09.5	church buddies. He's such a believable Joseph though, right? Like having just found himself
1:15.6	in the center of a confusing insta family with a young wife completely convinced that her new
1:20.0	baby boy was God himself. My life and my understanding of the Jesus stories has changed so much
1:30.6	over the past two decades. But those stories are still equally precious to me and maybe more
1:37.5	precious to me since I started understanding Bible stories and all religious stories really
1:43.5	not as historical reports that reveal facts about our shared world but as literary works
1:52.2	that reveal truth about our shared humanity. And my favorite way to hear the Christmas story ever
1:58.9	is from Linus in Charlie Brown Christmas special. Oh my god when he stands up in that spotlight and he
2:06.0	holds his little blanky and he tells that story. Oh my god that one slays me but every every time
2:13.6	I hear it no matter who is telling it I'm just all goosebumps and chills and tenderness and truth.
2:20.4	Because how I understand the story is this. So long ago a whole culture of people was suffering
2:27.9	oppressed by power and collective deep pain and they had been hurting for so long but they still
2:34.4	yearned they had this deep collective yearning because in their bones they knew there was a promise
2:42.2	in the air some kind of promise in the air of hope of comfort of justice of freedom of peace of
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