E846 | How Can You Survive Without...? - Part 2
Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
What would be the most difficult thing for you to live without? In this second installment of the series, John invites respected therapist Mary Ellen Owen into the studio to respond to the following statement: “I just don’t understand how people can survive without...” Her thought-provoking answer leads to a tender invitation into unexpected tears and deep healing.
Show Notes: The books referenced are All Things New, by John Eldredge, and Whistling in the Dark, by Fredrick Buechner.
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| 0:00.0 | This whole thing that is the expression of this ministry in the world and all the books and everything. |
| 0:05.6 | This began with this moment. |
| 0:07.6 | I am sitting in a movie theater. |
| 0:09.4 | I am watching the close of the movie A River Runs Through it. |
| 0:13.0 | And he says the line I can't say without weeping. |
| 0:15.9 | Now all those I loved but did not understand in my life or gone, but still I reach out to them. |
| 0:21.9 | Okay, I am bawling. |
| 0:23.9 | And the credits are rolling. |
| 0:25.0 | People are trying to get by me. |
| 0:26.3 | You know, I'm doing this in the theater. |
| 0:27.7 | Thank God it's dark still. |
| 0:29.2 | I am bawling, and I could not have told you why. |
| 0:35.1 | You guys, I had a victory this morning that I want to tell you about. |
| 0:41.1 | It's a small victory, but let's celebrate the small things, okay? |
| 0:45.8 | I think it needs a little context. |
| 0:49.4 | I would like to think that this is the context for maturing as you become more whole. |
| 0:59.3 | And as you become more aware, as I, I'll put it in me, as I become more dialed into life in the |
| 1:10.7 | kingdom of God and things as they ought to be. |
| 1:14.5 | Right. |
| 1:14.8 | I've got a really strong meter for things as they ought to be. |
| 1:22.0 | I don't do well in traffic. |
| 1:26.6 | Okay? |
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