I was experiencing this deep loss of heart and the effect was what I kept saying to myself was I just want to be done.

I just want to be done with my community. I just want to be done with my life with God.

I just want to give up on all of it.

But it was something in the heart of I am so discouraged and at a loss of heart for this story, this life that I'm experiencing around me and even my connection to God.

Friends, welcome back to the Wild at Heart Podcast here in the week of September 20th.

John in the studio this week with two of my favorite people, John Dale, Alex Burton, welcome guys.

Good to be here.

We are actually in part three of a four part series here kind of through September.

And so if you haven't listened to parts run into that this one's going to make a lot more sense.

If you go back, pick that up.

But you don't have to.

I think today is going to be awesome.

But by way of review to kind of pick up our listeners, we've been talking about a concern that we have for everyone's recovery.

That the world that we have been living through in the last 16, 18 months has been a shared experience of global trauma.

You know, the uncertainty, the fear, the constant changing, this, that and then just all of the acrimony, the tensions around vaccines, masks.

Like this, this has literally divided churches, right, which is so tragic.

So everybody's a little beat up and is Dan and I were talking about last week, we need to take a longer term view of our recovery.

And part of what we've experienced as a team and part of what we're concerned about is a kind of vulnerability to then the enemy just jumping on.

You know, he just always does that, right, dog pile.

You know, you have a fight with your wife, you know, things don't go well with your teenage daughter.

And then the enemy jumps in there and tries to really, you know, blow it all out of proportion.

Okay.

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