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Hey everyone, my name is Corey, and I'm part of the team that produces Everything Belongs.

We wanted to let you know that this is part three of a three-part series in responding to your questions that you've submitted this season.

This episode in particular is just a session at Richards Hermitage with Richard since we were cut off by the Ducks being born in his front yard when we began recording this series.

Richard, thanks so much for making the time. Of course.

We're going to interact with a few of our listeners today.

Our final episode of the podcast is listener questions coming in.

And so we have a few voice memos that we're

going to answer Paul and myself and our good friend Cassidy Hall. Yeah. Chat about some of the

questions. We have a few of our previous guests who phone in an answer or two. And we're super

excited to chat with you about

one or two of them as well. All right. We have a question from Mary Beth, who seeks a deeper

understanding of the concept of holy desire, which you talk about in chapter 10, a bright

sadness. And this is what she writes. During your discussion with Father Richard in chapter 10, a bright sadness. And this is what she writes.

During your discussion with Father Richard on chapter 10, he mentioned that without holy desire,

the trajectory is not urgent, not set, not going somewhere bigger. I'm hoping that maybe you can

ask him to talk more about that trajectory.

So, Richard, when you talk about the trajectory of holy desire, what does that mean?

You know, I think I'm trying to go back to where my mind was when I wrote that book, but I'm trying to counter just a bit the leftover of some Buddhist teaching, which makes desire a bad word, almost a sin.

We're destroyed by desire.

And that's not true in the Christian tradition.

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