This Has Eternal Consequence // TGP Intro to Advent with Beth and Jenna

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Advent invites a strange and holy tension: we live in the now and the not yet. There is longing and preparation, waiting and hope. This year the invitation is simple and radical — make room for the One who wants to fill every space in our hearts.

Here are practical, gentle ways to create margins for prayer this season:

Read the introduction of In Time, the BIS Advent Devotional. Reading the introduction before the season helps shape your attention.
Invite one friend. Personal invitations change everything. Ask someone to do the devotional with you. This makes them feel seen AND it anchors your own commitment.
Protect a prayer space. Carve out a chair, a corner, or a bedside table where you consistently meet God. Small rituals — a candle, an image, holy water — help your body remember what your heart already knows.
Try daily Mass. Even one extra day of Eucharistic presence can re-orient your life. The Eucharist is a meal; God sets a table daily for His children. If logistics feel impossible, start small and be resolutely determined.
Use worshipful music to re-center. When you struggle to begin prayer, play contemplative worship or instrumental tracks that point your attention toward God rather than yourself.
Set an alarm or rearrange your schedule. Small structural choices — an alarm, waking earlier, or shifting a routine — make space for consistent union with God.

Making room is often hard. Family dynamics, work, and fatigue make silence feel impossible. Yet hardness is not the same as wrong. Resistance trains and strengthens us. The spiritual life includes real discipline — but the discipline is always ordered to intimacy.

“Just because it's hard doesn't mean that it's wrong.”

Check out the whole episode and share how you're going to dive into this upcoming Advent Season!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We're not making space this advent for the sake of space.
0:04.2	We're not just saying like, we're too busy and like it's stressful and enough is enough.
0:12.1	Yeah.
0:12.5	Like we're making space for the sake of receiving the greatest gift, God himself.
0:20.0	I'm reminded of a word the Lord spoke to me recently.
0:23.3	He said, just because it's hard, doesn't mean that it's wrong.
0:26.5	Yes.
0:27.1	What's the point in plans when the Lord's going to shake it all up?
0:29.9	You know what I mean?
0:44.9	We're here to talk all things Advent and we're just here because we miss you guys and we haven't been here in a really long time.
0:46.5	So true.
0:47.3	It's been a minute since our last podcast season.
0:50.3	Welcome back, Jenna.
0:51.2	Also, did you guys know the podcast is like my very favorite thing besides retreats? Are you serious? And besides our product that's coming out in like a month. Okay. Well, this is how I feel. Third. That's true. That's pretty high. My number one is also retreats and my number two is also the podcast. My number three is the well mentorship. Okay. Well. So we're bringing lots of things back, including the podcast. That's true. Do you want to tell them about that? That the podcast is live? About the well mentorship and member community. All of that jazz. I mean, I can. We have a lot to fill you guys in on it. First of all, yes, as Beth said, I'm Jenna. I'm Beth. And we are
1:29.5	so happy to be with you because this is our second favorite thing to do. You could join us on
1:37.2	our first favorite thing to do, which is the next retreat coming up April 10th and 11th,
1:42.5	2026. What? I can't even believe it. It makes my heart swell.
1:48.2	Also, please tell them who's coming. You guys, there's so much to tell you. How are we going to fit
1:53.2	this all? I don't know. We did. We talked earlier and we thought we need a state of the union
1:58.3	because it has been a while, you know. Okay.
2:01.2	So first favorite thing, the worthy retreat happening April 10th and 11th, 2026 at St.
2:07.3	Joan of Arc Parish in Phoenix, Arizona.
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