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🗓️ 22 September 2021
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A street in Honduras. A conference room. The fifth lap of a bike ride. Crisis can descend on you in unexpected places – and so can clarity. All that’s required of you, really, is to be there for it, and to stretch yourself in ways you hadn’t expected. Mariann Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese in Washington, DC, tells of three defining moments of struggle and grace in her life.
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0:00.0 | There's no dusk in Central America. It just goes from light to dark. So it's the |
0:14.3 | cusp of dark and I need to walk. I walk and walk and walk through the urban |
0:29.0 | streets. The air is dry and hot, punctuated only by the smell of burning garbage. |
0:38.3 | Laundry hangs limp from the windows, dogs are barking, my head is spinning. What am I |
0:45.2 | even doing here? What can I possibly contribute in just a year? I'm disappointed |
0:52.4 | but I'm also angry because my perception of what I thought I was going to do |
0:57.8 | here and what I'm doing here are just completely different. I ask myself over |
1:07.8 | and over. Does it have to be so hard? Is it always going to be this hard? I'm not |
1:18.2 | consciously praying. It's more like a cry but I can only explain what happens |
1:24.5 | next as a clear answer from another realm which has never happened to me before. |
1:41.2 | Marion Buddy made headlines last year when as the Bishop of the Episcopal |
1:46.4 | diocese in Washington DC she condemned the use of tear gas against peaceful |
1:51.2 | demonstrators on the grounds of St. John's Episcopal Church but finding clarity in |
1:57.0 | one's personal life isn't always so easy as Bishop Buddy reveals in this episode. |
2:01.6 | On her way to becoming the first woman to hold the city's highest |
2:05.6 | clerical post she had to start listening to voices. Voices from others, voices |
2:12.1 | from within. In this series we combine immersive first-person stories and |
2:18.1 | breathtaking music with the science-backed benefits of mindfulness practice. |
2:23.7 | From weight what this is meditative story. |
2:29.6 | I'm Rohan and I'll be your guide. |
2:49.0 | The body relaxed. The body breathing. Your senses open. Your mind open. |
3:05.6 | Meeting the world. I've fallen in love and one of the first things I do is |
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