S03 Episode 06: Life of the Beloved - Being the Beloved (Part 2)
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🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we discuss the first chapter of our book study "Life of the Beloved" called Being the Beloved. We talk about what it means to be Beloved and the voices that come against that truth.
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One Thing We Love This Week:
- Sr. Miriam's One Thing - "Agape" by Bear's Den
- Michelle's One Thing - "The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks." by G.K. Chesterton
- Heather's One Thing - "I Surrender" - by Hillsong
Discussion Questions:
- What are the voices that try to keep you from living your life as the beloved?
- How can we live out being the beloved concretely in our day to day life?
- Nouwen says, you can't give the gift of being beloved if you haven't received it. How can we receive this truth more deeply.
Journal Questions:
- What is your interior response to hearing that you are the beloved?
- What are your thoughts about Henri Nouwen's assertion that being the beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.
Quote to Ponder:
"Being the beloved expresses the core truth of our existence" - Henri Nouwen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Pasco Media Production. Please visit PascoMedia.com |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together Podcast where we desire to provide a place of encouragement |
| 0:17.7 | rest and connection for those of you who are on the journey with Jesus Christ like we are |
| 0:22.4 | my name is Sister Maryam James and I am joined once again by my lovely beautiful capable |
| 0:27.1 | competent and glorious girl. She's first more ashes of me. We were talking about the |
| 0:35.4 | other day when somebody was like oh that's beautiful and then you say you're beautiful. |
| 0:38.8 | I was like that could go like a long list of different ashes. So I'm joined as always |
| 0:45.5 | by my glow. I won't start again Heather and Michelle ladies. Hi here we are week two |
| 0:50.5 | in our book study. We're so excited. We're going to talk about being the beloved this |
| 0:55.3 | week last week. We talked about our friendship begins and we're going to journey a little |
| 0:58.1 | bit deeper. We're going to have some honesty about whether we've kept our lending commitments |
| 1:01.5 | or not. Oh my gosh. I'm gave up Cheetos. I don't know what you guys are doing for |
| 1:04.9 | land but that's the extent of my devotion but oh I'm sure. So we since we're going to talk |
| 1:12.2 | about being the beloved we're going to define a few terms for you if we could. So I think |
| 1:16.4 | we have it's always different or it's always interesting to look at different definitions |
| 1:19.6 | and what words mean. So can I just define beloved just based on the dictionary definition |
| 1:24.8 | so life or the beloved you might be like what is the beloved. So the beloved means to |
| 1:29.4 | be dearly loved. Okay so dearly loved one so can I just read to you a few synonyms. Ladies |
| 1:35.2 | this is where I get my list. Yeah I was doing my research before we started. So good |
| 1:38.6 | out your thirst for it. So darling dear dearest precious adored much loved cherished treasured |
| 1:47.0 | prize highly regarded admired esteemed worshiped revered and venerated right a much loved |
| 1:52.9 | person. So I was just thinking about that and even like we would probably use those synonyms |
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