S11 E10 - Lent Part 4: The Healing Balm of Almsgiving

Abiding Together

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we continue in our Lenten series as we journey through Sister Miriam's book Restore. It's not too late to join us! You can find your copy today at Ave Maria Press. This week we discuss the healing that comes through almsgiving. We share our own personal experiences of tithing our time, practicing obedience in our vocations, and how almsgiving is more than giving money. We pray that God would grow your capacity to see Christ in the other through the practice of almsgiving!

Sister Miriam's one thing - Homemade Vegetarian Chili

Heather's one thing - Heather's Zucchini Pecan Muffins

Michelle's one thing - Once Upon a Wardrobe - Patti Callahan

Michelle's other one thing - God is Beauty - TOB Institute

Discussion Questions:

What stood out to you from this week's episode?
In light of almsgiving, what does faithful stewardship look like in your life?
How can almsgiving work to help mature your love?
Where do you let others hold you accountable? Are there specific areas you resist accountability?

Journal Questions:

How is God asking you to surrender your loaves and fishes? Do you trust him to do his work while you exercise dominion over what he has entrusted to you?
Take a moment to name any places in your life where darkness has dominion. If necessary, make a commitment to go to confession and experience healing.
Have you ever thought of confession as a means of almsgiving? How might this encourage you to experience healing through confession this Lent?

Quotes to Ponder: "No one heals himself by wounding another." - St Ambrose

Scripture for Lectio Divina: "Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine, is yours." - Luke 15:31

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to season 11 of the Abiding Together podcast. Abiding together is a place where you can find connection, rest and encouragement in your journey with Jesus Christ.
0:16.0	Every week I'm joined by two of my very dearest friends, Heather Kim and Michelle Bensinger and we talk about all things Christ, about life, about beauty, about sorrow, we laugh, we cry, you'll fit right in.
0:28.0	So grab a cup of coffee, settle in and welcome home.
0:38.0	Then Michelle, welcome, welcome, welcome to week four of Lent.
0:41.0	Thank you. I don't know. How do you say thank you to Lent? Thank you.
0:45.0	I don't know either. Yeah.
0:48.0	I'm so happy to be here. Not totally.
0:51.0	I'm happy with you guys.
0:53.0	I know, but I do love that this time of year, like things are starting to the buds are coming out, like there's like already these like signs of hope.
1:04.0	It's like so we're in the Lent. We're still feeling it, but it's like signaling, you know, the hope of resurrection, the hope of new life, the like, and I want to really take that in this year of like all the signs that God gives us along the way and in the journey that speak to the new life that's supposed to come.
1:21.0	It's not lent forever. You know, it's not winter forever. Like there always is a spring that comes or always is fruit that comes and new blooming that comes in and so similar for our own hearts.
1:32.0	So yeah, just trying to pay attention to what God's doing right now with that.
1:38.0	I'm sure if I've ever said this, maybe I have because I feel like we've said everything on this podcast or the course of 11 season.
1:44.0	I think we've said it all the way. We said it like six times over. But when I lived in Seattle and we know, Renna, that day, care after school, there was one tree that I would always watch in the spring time.
1:53.0	And because it would feel like Seattle, you know, cold and rainy and just dreary. And there was just one tree. I'm like, are we going to do it this year tree? We're going to make it to spring. Like what's going to happen.
2:01.0	And when that tree was start to buddha, we're like, all right, we're going to be.
2:04.0	It's not going to be winter forever.
2:07.0	That's awesome. Always winter never Christmas. Michelle doesn't have that issue down there down in Florida.
2:14.0	Michelle doesn't have that. It's always Christmas at the Benzinger House.
2:17.0	Hey, it's been kind of called over here. But yeah, I'm right there.
2:20.0	No, it hasn't felt like don't light it up.
2:23.0	Yeah. Hey, I'm wearing a sweater right now. Like look at that.
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