Solitude 06: Question + Response

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How often should I practice solitude? What if I don’t have a good time or the right place to practice solitude? What if solitude makes me more anxious? These are all questions that you, our audience, wanted help with! Join John Mark Comer, Bethany Allen, and Bryan Rouanzoin on this final Question and Response episode of season 4 of the Rule of Life podcast. You may just hear the question you asked.

This podcast accompanies the Solitude Practice, developed by Practicing the Way. Thanks to the generosity of The Circle, all our resources are free. To learn more about The Circle or to run a Practice with your church, community, or small group, visit https://www.practicingtheway.org/.

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0:00.0	I've at least had that paradigm flipped on its head that coming and alone actually meant
0:06.0	I could experience encounter and embrace and communion in a way that I couldn't have anticipated
0:13.0	because just I felt relationally met.
0:17.0	And I think so often, you know, I mean that's part of the fear of entering into solitude is the aloneness of it.
0:23.6	Fear of God for sure, but fear of self.
0:26.3	But I have found that moving into that, which I don't know that this answer scratches the actual itch,
0:34.2	but I know from experience that alone and loneliness are not the same thing when it comes
0:40.2	to solitude, and that it is a place of encounter where that loneliness is met with some kind of
0:46.3	relational response from the relational God who wants to meet you.
1:00.4	You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the way.
1:04.8	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance for the modern era.
1:07.5	This is Season 4, Solitude.
1:34.8	Music era. This is Season are, you guys.
1:37.5	We are back after a full start.
1:38.4	You just missed it.
1:39.1	We started.
1:41.9	We had a beautiful 60 seconds, and then a fly.
1:42.6	We were attacked.
1:45.5	Landed on Bethany's forehead. And you would think she was just accosted. I felt attacked. She was very scared. It honestly was so alarming. I thought
1:52.3	I was going to fly into my eye. So here we are. Now we're back again. And one final episode,
2:00.3	Brian and Bethany, it's such a joy to be with you. Thank you for your conversations over the last few weeks. And we thought it would be fitting to end the solitude series with a Q&R. So Q&R, by the way, for those of you outside of Portland and the postmodern West, that's a little Portland quirkyism. So postmodern theology, not theology.
2:19.4	We don't believe that.
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