Super Soul Special: Rob Bell: The Joy of Growing Younger

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Original Air Date: April 22, 2019 In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, New York Times best-selling author, pastor and podcaster Rob Bell raises profound questions about being alive. Rob explains how our attitude can actually turn back the hands of time and reveal to us what he calls “the joys of growing younger.” Rob also shares that his prayers are far from poetic. “They’re actually straight forward and sound more like, ‘You take it,’” he says. Rob explains how these prayers have led to some of his biggest revelations. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey.
0:02.0	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:06.0	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time,
0:12.0	taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us
0:21.0	starts right now.
0:24.0	I shall never forget when I discover Rob Bell.
0:31.0	Rob Bell. Rob Bell because he stood out as a spiritual teacher who takes on the big questions
0:39.6	that many are afraid to and also that many people have about what it means to have faith
0:47.7	and to be religious in the world and to be a spiritual being in the world.
0:53.0	And he's never afraid actually to explore our relationship
0:58.0	with the presence we call God.
1:00.0	He's going to talk to you about the joy of growing younger.
1:05.0	Like some of that. Hi friends. Hi I'm Rob and I'm your brother from another mother and it's so great to be with you when I told my wife
1:25.8	Kristen about this it's gonna take a whole day at UCLA of all these different
1:29.3	people giving talks she was like oh my word that is my idea of like the perfect Saturday did anybody
1:34.6	have that sense like so good okay so a couple years ago I met a gathering in Phoenix, Arizona and it's hot. I didn't need to say that and
1:49.7	I'm sitting at this gathering and there's an empty seat next to me and a woman walks up, sits down,
1:55.7	looks me in the eyes, like it's right in my grill.
1:58.3	And she says, Rob, my name is Mary, and I'm 92 years old and I'm just getting started and she said it with a little swagger like a little edge a little like what are you going to do about it and so I did
2:14.7	what any of you would have done in that situation I asked for a selfie
2:31.7	now selfie. Now how great, you see what I mean by the little swagger? It's somewhere between like the AARP and the Beastie Boys you
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