Why is Axianov's wife so worried that if he goes to the fair, she may never see him again?

Leo Tolstoy, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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App users can hear the poem The World is Too Much With Us, late and soon by William Wordsworth,

in the special features for today's episode. Now for our personal moment.

With the pandemic still going so strong, and since we've watched every episode and incarnation of the Great British Baking Show, several times now,

I thought I'd share a couple of the shows we've enjoyed during the pandemic. I just wanted to mention a couple of them.

First is Travelman, with Richard Ioattie. He basically experiments on seeing how possible it is to go on a weekend trip to someplace exotic.

His traveling companions are amazing people in the entertainment world. And since we can't get out and travel right now, we've really enjoyed this one.

The other one is a competition show about glass blowing, called blown away. Each week, the competitors are challenged to create a unique creation of blown glass,

and you see how it's done. It's really, really interesting. So that's what we've been watching lately at our house. And both of those are on Netflix, if you're interested.

Now for today's story. Today's story for me is a great example of the kind of gap that can sometimes occur between the type of faith that we may read in our holy works,

versus what we actually encounter in reality. In my faith growing up, we had a set of basically steps we would go through when we had wronged someone else,

or we made a mistake or needed to repent or whatever your praising calls it. When we had wronged someone, we were supposed to, one, admit or confess the thing that we did to the person.

Two, ask for forgiveness. Three, do all that we could to repair the wrong. Four, never do it again. On the other side, as the person wronged, you were always taught to forgive.

How often should we forgive? Jesus said 70 times seven, right? Always forgive. Now I get that it's really good sometimes to actually have things spelled out really clearly for people.

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