S3E8: Gaze

Being Known Podcast

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It requires little effort to gaze upon a brilliant sunset. But what about our trauma? What about the parts of us that we hate the most? Who wants even to glance at that, let alone gaze upon it? But as we will see (no pun intended), it is when we take the time, by dwelling, to look upon our wounds in the presence of others—and do so long enough to fully take them in—that we begin to experience what new creation not only looks like, but what it feels like in our bodies as our souls are renewed.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr. Kirk Thompson and my friend Pepper Sweeney.
0:19.1	We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.
0:23.0	Hey Kurt, hey Pep, great to be back together again.
0:27.0	Man, so good, you know, I am so enjoying your book
0:32.0	and we are covering the book this season if you're just
0:36.3	jumping in jumping around on the podcast I recommend that you start at the
0:39.6	beginning that you buy the book that you read the chapter before you listen or after and I think it really brings
0:47.1	everything even more to life than the page alone. This is episode 8 of
0:52.4	season 3 and we are going through as I said the book the soul of desire
0:57.4	Discovering the neuroscience of longing beauty and community and we are in chapter 8, episode 8, which is Gaze.
1:05.8	And these chapters are based on Psalm 27-4,
1:10.5	and the particular phrase from Psalm 27.
1:13.4	Is to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and this chapter starts off like to me like like on
1:21.0	fire man I just this this story that you start with in this chapter.
1:25.0	I was kind of on the edge of my seat, you know, going through this story, listening to how,
1:32.0	okay, I'll just tell you, so there's a obviously Kurt changes all the
1:35.5	names and some you know so but there's a character that he's named Brendan and
1:41.5	Brendan is a part of a confessional community.
1:44.6	They all seemingly have been together for quite a long time.
1:48.2	The community is made up of men and women.
1:51.7	And Brendan has been within the community sort of the solid guy that
1:56.4	has really made connections with everybody and particularly he's kind of shown an example of a solid guy, a guy with a lot of integrity to a lot of
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