E856 | A Thin Place
Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Christmas is past but the new year hasn’t yet arrived. In this in-between week, John and Allen invite you to slow down and experience a thin place with God before jumping back into your regular routine. Doing so can radically change your new year—if you’ll try these simple yet profound practices.
Show Notes: The five steps of the Ignatian Examen include coming into God’s presence, asking for help to be aware of how God has been moving, reviewing the year, gratitude and confession, and considering how this might shape your approach in the new year.
The Wild at Heart podcast with Mary Ellen Owen is “How Can You Survive Without...? - Part 2” (October 20, 2025). The 3-part Wild at Heart podcast series with Blaine Eldredge is “What Is God Up To in Your Life?” (September 21, September 28, October 5, 2025).
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| 0:00.0 | There's layers of how we're doing, right? |
| 0:02.2 | We're complicated, very, very beautiful beings. Part of you might be, I'm good. I'm doing good, and I'm actually looking forward to the new year. You've got some plans. And then as you begin to tune in, you go, whoa, and I'm also, I'm really tired. I think my soul is worn out from like it was a hard fall. There was a lot of work, a lot of push. you go, okay, great. |
| 0:23.4 | So you're beginning to get a little bit, my soul is worn out from like it was a hard fall. There's a lot of work, a lot of push. |
| 0:22.1 | You go, okay, great. So you're beginning to get a little bit more of depth. Yes. Okay. So we're |
| 0:27.3 | going to give everybody a tool to use for tuning in and for using the in-between time. |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome back, friends, to the Wild at Heart podcast here in the nether world. |
| 0:43.0 | The in-between week. Right. I mean, no man's land. It's neither fish nor foul. It's neither holiday, |
| 0:52.0 | but it's not, not holiday. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, we're in that, that, I love it. |
| 0:58.6 | I actually love, love, love this week between Christmas and kind of the start of things, |
| 1:04.8 | although we've got New Year on Thursday. |
| 1:08.6 | And, gang, we recognize that you are all over the map. I mean, there are people that |
| 1:15.8 | are still lingering in Christmas, still eating leftovers, right? Still have family in town or |
| 1:22.3 | friends. And there are some of you who are like, gone, gone. It was like back to work, into the new year. |
| 1:28.4 | Trees down. |
| 1:29.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.5 | Everything's backed away. |
| 1:31.5 | I have friends who do that. |
| 1:33.6 | We might have to do that actually this year because I'm leaving the country. |
| 1:39.8 | So we may have to do that early this year. |
| 1:42.6 | But we just recognize that. |
| 1:44.1 | We recognize some of you |
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