The Companion and the Right-Hand Man (part 3)
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
When Pharaoh cannot find someone to interpret his dreams he turns to Joseph, who turns to Yahweh.
Text: Genesis 41:14-56; 46:29-30
Players:
- Yahweh
- Pharaoh
- Joseph
- Israel
What's Spooky:
- Starvation
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Editing: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Intro Music: "Winds of Change," Four Trees
Outro Music: "Fine-Toothed Chrome," Sam Barsh
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing disqualifies one from glory quite so reliably as an unwillingness to suffer. |
| 0:12.0 | Almost without exception, joy lies on the far side of pain. |
| 0:20.0 | Maturity is born from hardship. |
| 0:23.6 | Peace grows from sorrow's soil. |
| 0:28.6 | Inconvenient truths to be sure, but truths to be spurned at great cost. |
| 0:43.5 | This is a story about a becoming, |
| 0:48.2 | about a journey of transformation enabled by a God who can be found working in the dungeons, |
| 0:51.5 | in the sweat, in the tears, |
| 0:57.0 | breathing life into dust. This story is THE story, really. Your story, if you're brave enough to live it. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Justin Gerhardt. Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. Nighttime in the dungeon. |
| 1:43.8 | Rats scurry along the walls, roaches scuttle across the floor. |
| 1:52.0 | Joseph lies on his mat, staring at a moldy ceiling, |
| 1:56.0 | his surrogate sky for the past. |
| 1:59.0 | How long has it been? Years. He itches his abundant beard, |
| 2:08.6 | a testament to the length of his incarceration. Not hardly the patchy token of budding manhood |
| 2:15.3 | he lost when Potiphar bought him as a slave. Now the hair cascades from his face, |
| 2:21.7 | thick and coarse, black as the air in this pit. He breathes slowly, the tattered fabric of his tunic |
| 2:32.2 | rising with his chest. |
| 2:39.5 | What does Joseph think about in these night watches? |
| 2:42.8 | What it would be like to be free? |
| 2:46.6 | To have a wife, children. |
| 2:58.6 | The moments that landed him here, perhaps, an involuntary replaying of potter's wife's advances his refusal her accusations potter's rage trembling as a 17-year-old auctioned to be the personal property of an Egyptian stranger. |
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