The Season of Waiting (And Waiting... And Waiting...)
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Kate Bowler
4.8 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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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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