Well friends, welcome back here to the Wild at Hard Podcast in the week of March 27th.

We are in the fourth installment of a five-part series on The Romance, the larger story,

the pursuit of the heart. But before we share with you this week's special treat,

let's do what we always do. Take a moment, center ourselves, check in with our own soul,

tune in to the presence of God, and use the practice of benevolent detachment to let everything

else go right now. Your kids, your work, the world, the news, all of it. You can do it for a moment.

Just pause and release all things.

And we release all things in order to have you, God. I need you more than anything else in the world.

Come to me now, come to me here. Restore my soul through union with you in Jesus' name.

I said we had another treat for you, and we're going to go back into the archives this week.

But this time it is Craig McConnell that you're going to hear. So after Brent passed away,

after he stepped into the fullness of the kingdom of God, Craig, my dear friend of 40 years

from Los Angeles came and began to teach and to travel and to do the sacred romance conferences

with me. He brought his own style. He brought his delicious sets of humor to it. And this talk is

on less wild lovers. And Craig would do this talk in such a win some way. We thought you would

really enjoy hearing him and hearing his voice again. Some of the other characters in the story,

we have we have God, our rescuer, we have an adversary, we're the beloved.

And then there are these mischievous characters, these counterfeit lovers.

And this is more than just kind of a conceptual idea. So much of our battle with the adversary

comes down to our love affairs, the affairs of our heart.

Ezekiel screamed to the people of God, how degenerate is your heart since the Lord God?

Seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen, brazen harlot,

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