There's a Divine Efficiency to Interior Poverty

The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5.0 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We welcome a pretty special guest this week... Br Kolbe, of "He likes cars" renown!

Let's get right to it: interior poverty. Facing our own brokenness, weakness, failings. Not the first place we want to go, right? But here's the thing… there's no way around it. The "secret" way to following Jesus is coming to terms with our poverty—with him, as he gives us the grace to be able to see it and not be overwhelmed by it. Getting to that place of emptiness allows him to fill us with peace and trust.

There's a divine efficiency to poverty. The Lord can work more directly when we are depending solely on his grace and not on any false securities that get in his way.

It's the only way. And that might not sound like good news, but that's because we have worldly ears. Hear it this way: this only way is hard, but it's with Jesus, he who brings sweetness to difficulty.

So go there. Don't avoid your spiritual poverty—Jesus meets you there.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Polkopoco podcast sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios.
0:07.0	And I'm Father Angel Sear and Father Innocent.
0:16.4	And really cool, man.
0:17.4	Nice one, bro.
0:19.0	We are the Friends of Supervisors of the Nual in this Polkopoco podcast.
0:22.1	Welcome back for the call we teased.
0:25.8	We thought out loud on this podcast that we'd have you on the guest.
0:30.9	I'm honored.
0:31.9	And we're here to you.
0:34.9	So real quick, I'll set the stage and then we'll, Brother Colby, we're going to ask you
0:39.2	about the, he likes car story.
0:42.2	Because we talked about on this, but I, I guess, Father PT and I have been celebrating
0:46.9	Mass at St. Francis Dishontel at one of their comments.
0:50.2	And on different days, we both use that story because it's just one of the, it's one of
0:54.3	my favorites.
0:55.3	Um, that's okay, right?
0:56.3	If we talk about that story, people keep asking me, I heard about you.
1:00.4	I heard you like cars.
1:02.5	Well, is that really happened?
1:05.7	It has happened.
1:06.7	And I could tell the other side of the story.
1:12.4	So what we're doing right now is we just put out with Vianna Vocations, a new book called
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