There are both external things that I'm focused on that get in the way of me loving people well,

whether that be my wife or my kids or my coworkers.

But then there's a whole bunch of internal things that are also just getting in the way of me

becoming the kind of person that can love the way that God loves.

Welcome to the Good Faith podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith podcast, is where

friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world. And you would think by that

description that we are helping people make sense of the world, that good faith is all about

engagement in the world, learning about the world, doing stuff in the world. And that's true.

And if you were to think that way, and you were to think, well, who's somebody that's disengaged from the world? Who would

you picture? You might think of someone like a monk, a monk sequestered in a monastery far away

from the world, just praying or chanting. But what if?

What if this divide between engagement in the world and disengagement from the world

actually were meant to coexist in some sort of harmony, that both were meant to be actually

active practices of followers of Jesus? What if we all maybe had an inner monk

that we actually needed to cultivate even as we are engaged in the world? That's what I

suspect is true. It's been true increasingly of my own experience, and that's why I'm so excited

to talk to today's guest. Today's guest is Jared

Patrick Boyd. He's a pastor in the Vineyard USA. He's a spiritual director and the founding director

of the Order of Common Life. It's a monastic order trying to reimagine religious vocations for the

21st century and for the common person.

And so he's also the author of imaginative prayer, finding freedom and constraint.

And Jared, I'm so excited to talk with you today. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast.

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