Rob Bell: The Joy of Growing Younger

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4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, New York Times best-selling author, pastor and podcaster Rob Bell raises profound questions about being alive. Rob explains how our attitude can actually turn back the hands of time and reveal to us what he calls “the joys of growing younger.” Rob also shares that his prayers are far from poetic. “They’re actually straight forward and sound more like, ‘You take it,’” he says. Rob explains how these prayers have led to some of his biggest revelations.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:25.1	I shall never forget when I discovered Rob Bell. Rob Bell. He stood out as a spiritual teacher
0:37.4	who takes on the big questions that many are afraid to and also that many people have
0:44.9	about what it means to have faith and to be religious in the world and to be a spiritual
0:51.9	being in the world. And he's never afraid actually to explore our relationship with the
0:58.2	presence we call God. He's going to talk to you about the joy of growing younger. Like
1:06.1	some of that.
1:09.1	Hi, friends. Hi, I'm Rob and I'm your brother from another mother. And it's so great to
1:24.2	be with you when I told my wife, Kristen, about this. It's going to take a whole day at UCLA
1:28.7	with all these different people giving talks. She was like, oh my word, that is my idea of
1:32.9	the perfect Saturday. Did anybody have that sense? So good. Okay, so a couple years ago,
1:42.5	I'm at a gathering in Phoenix, Arizona. And it's hot. I didn't need to say that. And I'm
1:50.0	sitting at this gathering and there's an empty seat next to me and a woman walks up, sits
1:54.5	down, looks me in the eyes, like it's right in my grill. And she says, Rob, my name is
2:00.8	Mary. And I'm 92 years old and I'm just getting started. And she said it with a little
2:09.5	swagger, like a little edge, a little like what are you going to do about it. And so I did
2:15.9	what any of you would have done in that situation. I asked for a selfie. Now, how great. You see
2:29.4	what I mean by the little swagger. It's somewhere between like the AARP and the Beastie Boys.
2:34.7	You know what I mean? It's like a little like she woke up and went, shall I tend to my
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