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Stories Are Soul Food

Overcoming Trauma and Hardship | (Ep. 185)

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8787 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When you've been hurt, what kind of character will you be?
  • God gives you hardship as a Storyteller does: because readers love what happens when a character is down but finds a way to get back up;
  • Remember that it's in the cellars of affliction that God makes his choicest wines (Rutherford);
  • Be at once tender and merciless with your own victimhood;
  • Stop assuming nobody else at church has the dark backstory of trauma and abuse that you do.
  • Take heart from Grandpa Jim, who used to "get chose" to fight the bullies every day after school.
What kind of wine will you be?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.

0:04.4

Fire burning to my knees to my knees.

0:06.9

I fell.

0:07.6

Made a ghost of a king on a row.

0:09.7

A couple different questions here, but I thought perhaps we'd start with something you

0:15.4

were touching on a moment ago, but you were talking about how...

0:18.7

A mere moment ago, and something completely other than this

0:20.9

podcast. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The Irish folks who ended up rooting for the Nazis. The Nazis,

0:28.4

the Third Reich. Yeah. And how this is, this is stemming from a reader question about trauma and

0:35.6

resistance to suffering and what it can do. And I'm, my question,

0:41.0

can you tell a little bit more about those Irish folks who end up coming into the wrong

0:44.8

side of the World War II conflict? Because I can, I can get to our question on trauma,

0:48.6

but I think sometimes we have such a modern perspective on. It's just, it's pretty simple.

0:52.7

It's just the enemy of my enemy is you know my

0:56.7

friend so the british hate the nazis the irish hate the british so it all works out therefore

1:02.8

we must be on the same team it's a pretty easy logic that gets us there yeah we do this now

1:08.6

when somebody's like joining the conservative movement, you know, like here

1:14.5

we come.

1:15.5

We're going to join the conservative movement and you have to be ready to say, we don't want

1:18.3

you actually.

1:19.4

Yeah.

1:20.4

We don't need Nickabricks, black dwarfs.

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