Friends welcome back to the

to the Ransomed Hart podcast here in the last week of January.

So suddenly January is behind us and we are well on our way into 2020.

With me this week, Alan Arnold and back in the fall I began introducing the podcast with a sort of reminder and it goes like this.

This is a gnarly time to be a human being. The world, the hour that we're living in, the pressures. You know, every

age has had its own suffering. In this hour, we have hospitals, you know, we have help, we have

fire departments and first responders, we have police forces. There's relative

stability, you know, most of us are not fearing that us or half

of our household will die of the plague or those sorts of things.

However, because of the relative comforts of our age,

I think we actually don't see the suffering of it, Alan. And so when I say it's a gnarly time to be a human

being, I'm referring to the pace of life that no one's enjoying.

Right. I'm referring to the inundation of media coming at our attention, grabbing our

attention and taking it hostage. The human soul was never meant to bear the heartaches of the world, but the heart

aches of the world are delivered to us hour by hour on our mobile devices and if you're plugged in in any way you know and it's it's a

combination of the the madness of the pace it's the combination of the

technological blitz the tsunami that we consider of the

tsunami that we consider to be sort of just a normal

consumption of information.

It's the heartache that's coming to us through that information.

It's a kind of compassion fatigue that I think is particular, I want to say, to good-hearted people because we care and we want to intervene

so many hurting people, so many people that we know even at our own communities,

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