Picking up with Chapter 2 from Braving the Wilderness this week, where he focus is on "true belonging." This begs the question, "What is false belonging?" I wonder. . .

This is a prayer written by a Serbian Bishop while imprisoned in Nazi Germany. It's a challenge of our view of redemption, forgiveness, and love. 

This week's book is about, you guessed it, prayer. It seems like a common theme in these books and episodes, but maybe Foster's approach will give you something new to think about.

**I originally uploaded the wrong audio for this episode. Sorry everybody. I hope you enjoy this week's book!**

Everything we do is for the life of the world. This is one of the most significant works of the last century, so I hope I did this chapter justice. 

This book was immensely timely for me when I first read it in 2019 courtesy of a dear friend. Brown's work is driven by long studies revolving around guilt, shame, and identity. In this book in particular, she is pointing to the need for us to learn how to live in tension with nuance, and how that often will leave us without a "team" or "group" but that we cannot be fulfilled otherwise. 

"Nothing is neutral."

"You are what you love. You worship what you love. And you might not love what you think."

Paul uses the analogy of Christians being "the body of Christ." Merton builds on this imagery to describe us as "a body of broken bones." We need to understand that our call as followers of Jesus is to be agents of peace and love, and that requires us to be a part of resetting broken bones. 

Night has been an image used to represent struggle and grief in human culture for millennia, especially Christian history. The topic of this chapter (and book) is how do we pray when we feel our struggles are too great? 

I finally finished the Weight of Glory this week. I try my best to do justice to Lewis's famous line "You've never met an ordinary person."