The Source and the Supernova
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The beginning, the end, and the messy middle of the story of Yahweh's Philistine-slaying champion, Samson.
Text: Judges 13, 15, 16:21-31
Players:
- Yahweh
- Manoah's wife
- Manoah
- Samson
What's Spooky:
- Mass killing with an animal carcass
- Large-scale death by crushing
- Brief mention of someone being burned alive
- Mention of gouged eyes
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 | How many stories are lesser stories than they should have been? |
| 0:09.0 | How many times have divine plans met with human disinterest? |
| 0:16.0 | Shining vision been dulled by fear or selfishness or doubt. Too many, surely. |
| 0:27.8 | This is a story about what was and what might have been, about great expectations and |
| 0:35.1 | bleak disappointment and tragic distraction. |
| 0:41.4 | And it's a story about a God who shows up, even when we don't. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm Justin Gerhardt. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. The woman turns restless beneath the sheets. |
| 1:30.3 | Beside her, her husband, Manoa, sleeping soundly. |
| 1:36.3 | Against the wall, the baby's bed. |
| 1:40.3 | She made it herself, certainly, wove the mattress, stuffed it with straw, and perfumed flowers she'd picked with her own hands in the hills outside of Zora. |
| 1:52.4 | Such happy days, those just married, expectantly nesting, Manoa laughing about the sun she'd bear him. |
| 2:00.6 | How tall and handsome, how smart and strong he'd be. Manoa laughing about the sun she'd bear him. |
| 2:04.9 | How tall and handsome, how smart and strong he'd be. |
| 2:10.1 | Pride of the tribe of Dan, he'd shout as they walked back home. |
| 2:17.0 | Shhh, she'd laugh, waving apologetically as passing Philistine soldiers turned to look. |
| 2:21.2 | Not long now, Manoa would shout, perhaps, pointing to her belly. |
| 2:24.2 | Shh, I'm not even pregnant yet. |
| 2:29.9 | She peers through the darkness. |
| 2:34.5 | Moonlight spills into the window, illuminating the baby's bed, |
| 2:37.7 | spotlighting the inescapable truth. |
| 2:40.3 | There is no baby. |
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