Invited Back with Sabeth Kapahu

By Sabeth Kapahu

It takes work to be invited back to a vibrant space, a deep conversation, and meaningful relationships I'm here to journey with you in the in the in-between as we reimagine the possibilities of a pass... more

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May 19, 2021 A Message About Marriage
A couple months before our wedding my fiancé asked if we should push our date back a bit.
I had barely broken into my 20’s but I thought I knew what I wanted… ahem I mean what God wanted. I thought I knew about the foundations of love and marriage. He told me exactly what he would need, what I was getting into, and if I needed more time. I said no. I thought I was ready.
I was wrong.
I don’t know if anyone is ever really ready. How can you be ready for two sinful, selfish, works in progress to be united under one roof and immediately call it home? We lived independent lives until the moment we were now united as one. You can talk to a lot of people, read lots of words, pray lots of prayers, and prepare for a lot… but you can’t prepare for the day in and day out until you're in it.
It takes time to become one, lots of time. It takes humility, to love well, tons of humility! It takes surrender, forgiveness and work, a lot of work. Oftentimes this work feels unseen.
And once you think you’ve got a rhythm going something unexpected will happen and force you to completely re-learn what you thought you knew. You will begin building a new rhythm again. There will be high highs, and low lows. Those lows in marriage feel lonely, but you are never alone.
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May 12, 2021 No “Lone Wolves” In A Pack
In our modern Western culture we often hear the phrase “lone wolf” and think about a person who does their own thing without submitting to a certain “group.” However, the reality is, there are no lone wolves. In nature sometimes a wolf leaves the pack but only when they are finding a mate and starting their own pack. So, they are not leaving to be alone, but to start a new family that will soon be working together to survive.
Sounds familiar doesn’t it? This sounds like motherhood.
There are intricate and sometimes difficult relational dynamics that play into being a part of a pack, but I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that every mom needs one.
There are some people in my pack I communicate with daily, and there are others who have been in my pack for decades but I only communicate with them a few times a year. We each have our own strengths, and at the end of the day we wouldn’t survive without each other.
The law of “the jungle” we are living in can be hard to navigate on the best days. “Raising our pups and hunting for food,” gets more and more complex as we are inundated with information at rates like never before. We cannot open our doors to each other like we used to, thanks to a global pandemic; but we need each other more than ever before. Our kids and communities need us to stay in the pack even though sometimes it might feel easier to be a “lone wolf.”
There are seasons for solitude but even in solitude there is sacred space for solidarity.
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May 05, 2021 “You Don’t Have To Believe Everything You Think” : What We Say About Ourselves Matters
In his book “Indistractable : How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life,” Nir Eyal talks about the power of our mind. He reminds us that what we say about ourselves matters.
There are countless times throughout my days that I am forced to reshape my thinking in order to work towards an outcome that aligns with my values. I fail more often than I succeed, but there is still something to be said for awareness. And there’s even more to be said about the help of the Holy Spirit to guide our thoughts.
Eyal writes “just because we think something about ourselves doesn’t mean we have to believe it.” What would happen if we allowed ourselves to not always believe what we think? There would be room to reimagine our capabilities, and that is the room where freedom and transformation happen.
There’s no one right answer. Each of our circumstances is vastly different, but there is something that is the same. We are all thinking a certain way about ourselves. We all have an opportunity to shift those thoughts to what’s true if we want too, choose too, and receive the help we need to make that happen.
It’s not easy, not at all. But it can be done. Sometimes our thoughts are learned, sometimes they are reactions, and oftentimes they feel overwhelming and out of control. This is normal. This is real life. This is something that can be turned to focused intentions, and great outcomes!
You are not the only one who talks to themself, who doubts their capacity, who blindly believes. We are on this journey together. You are always invited back to this space to walk out our faith together.
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April 30, 2021 I Made It Worse But I Tried To Make It Better
“I Made It Worse But I Tried To Make It Better,” this is an honest reality for anyone in a human relationship. We don’t always get it right when it comes to communicating. Sometimes it’s laughable, and other times it means healing is required. This is a story of miscommunication in marriage from the beach, and a conversation around the fire. Unless we are face to face in clear communication with one another we are probably going to get it wrong, and that is normal. We are on this journey together. There is sacred space in solidarity. You are not alone.
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April 24, 2021 Your Color Will Return: A Lesson From Flamingos
There are seasons of motherhood that deplete us completely from any vibrant colors that we once had. Did you know that this is a natural part of life for flamingos as well?
But they don’t stay white forever. Eventually, as they regain nourishment, and their littles become more independent, they regain their beautiful pink feathers
The further along we get in our motherhood journey the more beautiful our colors become.
They might even be more vibrant than ever before. If you are feeling depleted you are not alone! There is hope.
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April 15, 2021 Attachment Gone Wrong and Pain That Sticks With Us: RENOVATED
We are living in a crucial moment of history and the way we attach to others will shape our character for the good or the bad. Our kids need us to form healthy attachments with them. Our world needs us to reflect on our own character.
My hope for us all this week is that we can think about how and what we are attached to.
In his book Renovated, Jim Wilder writes in the concluding paragraphs the following words. “Attachment is pivotal to character development. Hesed with bad company grows bad character, while hesed with upright company grows good character. Pain that sticks with us comes from broken attachments. Attachment sticks. Death, abandonment, neglect, betrayal, conflict, and the social problems associated with them derive from attachment gone wrong.”
We have a choice to make about which attachments we are allowing our days to be shaped by. My encouragement for us this week is to simply, deeply, think about our own attachments and how they are shaping our character.
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April 09, 2021 Journeying Together Towards A Stone Rolled Away
There is so much hope to be found in the story of Mary M. and Mary as they walked to the tomb where Jesus was buried and wondered how they would get to his body with the heavy stone in their way.
All along our journeys there are situations that seem unmovable, yet time and time again we arrive to a, "stone rolled away." My hope for us this week is that we can find strength in the sacred space of solidarity, and in the invitation of the Risen Jesus to continue journeying even if you don't know how it will end.
Listen until the end of the episode to hear my raw 5:20am reflections on Marks account of this story of the journey towards the stone rolled away and the invitation given to these women as the first to experience the Risen Jesus.
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March 30, 2021 An Anchor Of The Soul and A Story From a Five Year Old
There is a pattern that runs throughout our history of threat of judgement and reality of hope. There is a pattern of God’s faithfulness and a call to perseverance. There is a pattern of refugees who sought safety in temples and forerunners who came first in military campaigns. And there is Jesus who went forward on our behalf and changed everything.
Stay tuned to the end of the episode to hear that story told by my five year old.
Friends there is something to take hope for even if it feels like there is nothing left. May we find ourselves in the pattern of perseverance, seeking refuge, and clinging to hope.
Heb 6:17-20
So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”
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March 26, 2021 Is Your Willpower On Vacation? Me Too!
The reality of this human life is that we cannot get anywhere with just the power of our will. Has your willpower been on vacation in the Bahamas since 2020? You are not alone! Listen in for some solidarity and encouragement towards taking one step towards a goal, despite your willpower being on vacation.
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March 20, 2021 We are always practicing something, even if it’s not something we want to get better at.
Carla Naumburg wrote in her book titled How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids, “We are always practicing something even if it is not something that we want to get better at.”
What a powerful reality to bring us to a place of noticing our daily habits. Sometimes we are practicing things that we were modeled and we are unaware that we do them.
Sometimes we are well aware of practicing a bad habit but we just don’t stop because the reality is that we humans can be morons. Other times we have intentionally cultivated daily habits that help us practice what we actually want to get better at.
My encouragement for us this week is to think about what we are practicing. May we always remember that we have a choice in what we are getting better at. There is abundant grace for the journey. None of us get it right all the time, but the more we practice what is good, the better we get at it.
You are not alone!
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FAQs about Invited Back with Sabeth Kapahu:

How many episodes does Invited Back with Sabeth Kapahu have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.