Blessing Our ACTUAL Lives

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Welcome to SEASON TEN of the Everything Happens Podcast! I started this podcast as a way to create language and community around some of life's most painful moments. I was so overwhelmed by the question of how do we live in the after? After a diagnosis, after a death, after a divorce, after something that changes our lives or takes it apart. I had just been diagnosed with stage four colon cancer and I was only 35. I had a two year old at home with this giant lovey Disney eyes, and I had the job that I loved, and then suddenly, I had a picture of a future that was just never going to be. So I wanted to know, like, how do we do this? How do you find joy and hope and love even after life comes undone? And after years of treatment and years of uncertainty, I guess I realized somewhere along the way that this wasn't really a one and done kind of question. This is the sort of work that evolves over time as life continues to contract and expand and break our hearts and then put us back together all over again. And so thank you for being the people that I've had along the way. These are not, of course, the conversations anybody really wants to have, but we do, you and me and this gorgeous community here. We have so many great episodes coming to you for SEASON TEN. We're going to be talking to tender and wise and funny people about what they've discovered during their before and afters. People like Beth Moore on long faithfulness when life really doesn't work out the way you thought it did. Mary Louise Kelly on empty-nesting and rediscovering yourself after the kids leave. Rabbi Steve Leder on how tragedies teach us and how we can just see beauty somehow. Plus SO MANY MORE. New episodes coming your way every Tuesday this Spring. This episode also includes a conversation between Kate and her producer, Jessica Richie about their new book of blessings, The Lives We Actually Have. *** THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days (releases TODAY). Learn more, here. We have free Lent guides for you to use by yourself, with a group, or with your church. Click here to get started. Leave us a voicemail and who knows? We might even be able to use your voice on the air: 919-322-8731 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	Well, hello there. Hey, I'm Kate Boller and welcome to season 10.
0:10.0	Holy crap. Season 10 of the Everything Happens podcast, which just, yeah, everything happens
0:18.4	and it just keeps happening for 10 seasons. I started this podcast as a way to create
0:24.4	language and community around some of life's most painful moments. I was so overwhelmed by the
0:31.3	question of how do we live in the after? After a diagnosis, after a death, after a divorce,
0:38.5	after something that changes our lives or takes it apart. I had just been diagnosed with stage 4
0:46.8	colon cancer and I was only 35 and I just, I was, I was so lonely and I felt so devastated. I had
0:59.5	a two-year-old at home with his giant, lovely Disney eyes and I had the job that I loved, like the
1:09.5	very, the only job I've ever wanted and then suddenly I had a picture of a future that was just
1:16.3	never going to be. And so I wanted to know, like, how do we do this? How do I do this? How do you
1:24.4	find joy and hope and love even after life comes undone? And after years of treatment and years
1:34.6	of uncertainty, I guess I realized somewhere along the way that this wasn't really a one-and-done
1:39.4	kind of question. This is the sort of work that evolves over time. As life continues to contract,
1:46.2	and expand, and break our hearts, and then put us back together all over again. And so thank you
1:53.8	for being the people that I've had along the way. These are not, of course, the conversations
2:00.1	anybody really wants to have, but we do. You and me and the Scorchist community here at the
2:06.8	Everything Happens project, you really are my people. And I honestly can't believe that we are
2:14.0	starting the 10th season. That has been 120 heart-expanding episodes later. And so many more to come.
2:25.5	It turns out that this is actually not just like, you know, a series of episodes,
2:33.4	but a way that I've learned how to relate to the world. And it's something that I only got to do
2:38.8	because we were doing it together. And this season, we're going to be talking to Tender and Wise
2:44.8	and so funny people about what they've discovered in their before and afters. People like Beth Moore,
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