S07 Episode 2: The Barrenness of Winter
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4.9 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Barrenness of Winter
In this episode we talk about the barrenness of winter and how the seasons are often reflected in our spiritual and emotional lives. We explore how to have hope and perspective in times when things are hidden and dormant and how to allow our roots to go deeper into our relationship with Christ.
Sister Miriam's one thing - Trader Joe's
Michelle's one thing - If You Want Me To by Ginny Owens
Endow - Edith Stein (St. Teresa of Benedicta): Seeker of Truth Book Study
Heather's one thing - You Make Me Brave (Acoustic Version) by Josie Buchanan
Nothing Else by Cody Carnes
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Discussion questions:
- What struck you from the podcast?
- What parallels do you see between the natural seasons and the seasons of the spiritual life?
- How do you take a "holy pause"?
- What are the places you're afraid are too barren for God to make fruitful?
Journal Questions:
- Reflect and journal about this scripture: Proverbs 31:25. What does it speak to you personally?
- Has there been a time when you tried to cling to something that had run its course?
- What are the barren places in your life that you can pour out before the Lord like Hannah?
Quote to Ponder - "For just as the body is clothed in its garments, and the flesh in its skin, and the bones in their flesh, and the heart in its body, so too are we, soul and body, clothed from head to foot in the goodness of God."
—Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
Scripture for Lectio Divina - Proverbs 31:25 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, For all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast. Abiding together is a place where you can |
| 0:13.4 | find connection, rest and encouragement on your journey with Jesus Christ. My name is |
| 0:18.2 | Sister Miriam James Heitland and every week I am joined by two of my dearest friends, |
| 0:23.1 | Michelle Benzinger and Heather Kim. This podcast is born out of our friendship of sharing |
| 0:28.4 | all kinds of things together. Our walk with Christ, our insights, our joys, sorrows, tears |
| 0:34.2 | and laughter. And you are most welcome on the journey with us. So grab a cup of coffee, |
| 0:40.2 | settle in and welcome home. |
| 0:47.8 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast. Welcome to season seven and episode two. |
| 0:53.8 | And we're going to talk about we were laughing over the title. We're going to talk today |
| 0:56.6 | about the Baroness of Winter, not to be confused as Heather would say it with the Baroness |
| 1:01.0 | of Winter, which is like I don't count as the winter or like I don't know the maiden of winter |
| 1:06.0 | or not. We're like no, so that's like a narnia character. It's like the white |
| 1:10.6 | which is something like that. So speaking of how are we ladies? So we are deep into 2020 already. My |
| 1:16.6 | goodness, 2020 gosh, here we are. Michelle Benzinger 2020. Can you believe it? I can't believe it, |
| 1:22.0 | but I am doing well. And so I like 2020 so far so far so good. So bring it on. Let's just see |
| 1:29.0 | all the grace and Baroness and beauty and all that we have. It's an offer. So Heather, how are you? |
| 1:38.6 | Well, 2020, I can't believe it either. It's amazing that we're already here, but it's kind of |
| 1:44.7 | been kicking my butt a little bit like my word of the year is littleness and that sounds really cute, |
| 1:49.4 | but at the beginning I quickly realized, oh, this is not going to be all cute. Like there's |
| 1:54.5 | like some really humbling situations that are happening right now. So just for an example, |
| 1:58.5 | because I thought this is quite funny. So the three of us do videos for people who |
| 2:03.7 | financially support us on Patreon. If it's $50 or more a month, then we do a little video every |
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