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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

The Season of Waiting (And Waiting... And Waiting...)

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We are going to practice the season of Advent together. Download a free Advent guide, here. At the end of today's episode, we asked you what your traditions were for remembering the people who we've lost. Share yours on my Instagram or Facebook account. Whether it is the 1st or 4th or 22nd year without someone you love, the holidays can be especially difficult. We need practical ways to bring their memory into our special days. Making family recipes. Playing their favorite song. Putting their ornaments on the tree. Traditions that keep their love alive year after year after year. What traditions does your family practice to honor and remember your loved one each year? Share yours on Instagram or Facebook. Thank you for sharing your heartbreak and hope with us all. Bless you as you navigate another year dear one. You aren't doing it alone. *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Subscribe to receive blessings in your inbox every week. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available in PAPERBACK. Order your copy, today. Looking for some short spiritual reflections and blessings? Check out GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. Introducing THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days (releasing February 14, 2023). Learn more, pre-order, and receive a free pennant, here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh hello, hello, hello there.

0:04.3

Hi.

0:05.3

I don't know if you've heard, but it's the holiday season!

0:09.4

Are you ready yet?

0:10.9

Oh my gosh, I hate that question.

0:14.5

It usually comes when I'm already completely overwhelmed.

0:18.4

Buying the right gift.

0:20.9

Constructing gingerbread mega-churches.

0:22.9

Okay, well, that's actually something I choose to do.

0:25.8

Caroling.

0:26.8

Well, also something I choose to do, but there is a tremendous emphasis on, don't we have

0:32.6

to make the most of every memory dang it?

0:35.6

And then, what about all the deeper things?

0:38.9

Like how your heart is doing in the midst of all of it?

0:41.4

By the kids all right?

0:44.2

As your friend, still struggling with what's this face?

0:48.0

How can we not, I don't know, alienate the in-laws again this year?

0:52.8

Or how do we manage our first holiday, or fourth, or twelfth, without that person we miss

0:59.2

so much?

1:01.9

This season of Christmas seems to be the ultimate challenge to the human spirit.

1:07.9

Christmas is the symbol of plenty and fulfillment, and more than enoughness, and of the expectation

1:15.9

that perhaps now we can be just a bit more loving, more forgiving, more generous.

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