Mitch Albom: Counting your Somethings

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Bestselling author Mitch Albom was at the height of his career when his favorite professor was dying. Mitch then spent his Tuesdays with Morrie—conversations that would change the trajectory of his life and career. Mitch continues to walk right up to the edge with the complicated questions around grief, loss, and hope in his books and charitable work. In this conversation, Kate and Mitch discuss: Why the loss of a child feels so different than the loss of someone farther along in years What questions we ask of God when we encounter death (and why we might not get the answers we hope for) How we might count our somethings (our people, our blessings) without imagining that God is teaching us “a lesson” CW: ALS, death of a child with a brain tumor *** Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to our weekly email for bits of wisdom, prayers, free downloads, and more. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available wherever books are sold. Order your copy, today. Introducing, GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. Join us for Lent. Receive a free lenten reflection guide, here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	There's a moment there when you feel untouchable, invincible even, lucky, some might say.
0:10.0	It could be because of big things.
0:12.5	You might be at the height of your career or proud of how well your kids are doing or
0:17.6	feel like you're finally getting somewhere in therapy.
0:21.8	Or it could be the little things.
0:23.8	You might have gotten that super close parking spot or want to give away or checked everything
0:28.5	off of your to-do list today.
0:30.5	Honestly, I had a moment like that recently where I was like seated at a basketball game,
0:36.5	seated so that I wouldn't get hit in the face with a t-shirt cannon t-shirt, and then while
0:40.3	seated, the t-shirt landed beside me.
0:44.8	And then my seatmate just handed it to me like a, like a, just the present that it was.
0:50.7	I was like, oh my gosh.
0:53.1	Maybe my life is really adding up to something.
0:57.1	Those are the moments.
0:59.2	And then there are the moments when the math makes no sense at all.
1:05.9	When the addiction still has a vice grip or the doctor still has no answers or the marriage
1:12.6	is crumbling after you've tried absolutely everything.
1:17.4	Those moments when no matter how much effort or time or prayer or positive vibes, you've
1:25.0	put into it, nothing seems to change.
1:28.4	It doesn't add up.
1:32.5	My name is Kate Bowler, and this is Everything Happens.
1:37.9	Today my guest is someone who has been on the upswing of life, a successful career,
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