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Friends, welcome back to the Everything Belongs podcast with Father Richard Roar.

Each season, we've been exploring one of Richard's books, and each episode we travel over to Richard's house to discuss the chapter with him.

And then after that, we're joined by a special guest who helps us live the teachings forward. We think about Richard's

teachings in new ways, asking new questions in an evolving and rapidly changing world. But

this season is extra special, because we're exploring Richards next and he claims last brand new book,

The New York Times bestselling The Tears of Things.

As a reminder, you absolutely don't have to read the book to follow along with us,

but we would actually love it if you felt inspired to pick up the book and read along with us

as we take this journey

for the rest of the year. As we head into chapter one today, we'll talk about walking the full

path of the prophets. When Richard explores the Hebrew prophets, he teaches us that he sees a pattern

that applies to all of us no matter where and when we're living. When we take a

hard look at the injustice and the cruelty of the world, we often first feel a deep, deep sense of

anger. Richard encourages us not to run away from that anger. In fact, if we can feel that anger fully and let it be our

teacher, often what happens is we find underneath it a very deep sadness. In fact, this is why

Richard named his book, The Tears of Things. Richard writes, both the prophets and the mystics

remind us, all things have tears and all things deserve tears.

We'll look to find our own tears together as we go through this book with Richard.

Finally and most importantly, we'll explore how this is an invitation to grow up.

We grow up in how we read the Bible. We grow up in how we

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