E853 | The Advent Obstacle
Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In the Christmas rush, it’s hard to slow down and savor the season. The pace of things makes experiencing any sort of spiritual depth a struggle, but there’s a deeper, often hidden, obstacle more likely to steal your joy. John and Allen offer a powerful question to help you see what’s in the way of this Advent season.
Show Notes: Find the Wild at Heart Gift Guide here. The book John reads from is On the Incarnation, by Athanasius.
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| 0:00.0 | What I want folks to do is as you open the news, just ask yourself, how would we ever fix this? |
| 0:06.0 | How are we ever going to fix any of this? You know, you're reading about the further corruption in this government and the assassination of these innocent people and then on and on. |
| 0:15.0 | Just read the news and think to yourself, what if a small group of us were tasked with fixing this? |
| 0:21.4 | So even if you had the Avengers on your side, even if you had all the Jedi, I mean, just |
| 0:26.0 | pulled together your best team that you can think of. |
| 0:29.1 | We are going to go rescue the planet. |
| 0:31.3 | It just can't be done. |
| 0:32.5 | Well, welcome back everybody to the Wild at Heart podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | We're delighted you're able to be with us this week here in the second week of Advent. |
| 0:43.8 | Yes. |
| 0:49.0 | And I realize, first week of Advent, we roll a Q&A podcast. |
| 0:53.6 | But that just gives you an idea of everybody's life. |
| 0:53.9 | Right. |
| 0:56.2 | Pace of life, got to get it done. |
| 0:56.8 | Yes. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.9 | Record things way out and then go, oh, wait, hold on. |
| 1:02.0 | That's the first week of Advent. |
| 1:05.7 | So we are in the second week of Advent here. |
| 1:08.7 | And I think we have a real gift for you this week. It's hard to, I think it's hard for most people to find, like, what we would call the spirituality of Advent of Christmas season. |
| 1:19.9 | Right. |
| 1:20.9 | Because of the pace and the busyness. |
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