As we enter a New Year after celebrating fulfilled prophecies of 'God With Us' at Christmas, can we live with expectancy in a world that seems to predict the worst?

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Today's episode focuses on the hope that God is not done with us.  God is always re-creating, re-making, and re-shaping us and our world. We can either receive this ongoing work of God or we can resist it.

In the season we continue using the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola to integrate insights from neuroscience, attachment theory, theology, and daily life in our weekly episodes.

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As we continue exploring the presence of God in everyday life through the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, this episode considers how a relationship of trust and acceptance with God gives us courage to acknowledge our own sin.

Resources:
The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien, SJ

Sleeping At Last: "Eight" (about Enneagram 8s)

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In our second season we will be using the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola to integrate insights from neuroscience, attachment theory, theology, and daily life in our weekly episodes.

We talk about what we've been up to for the last 9 months, and what this next season is going to be all about.

Resources:
The Ignatian Adventure, Kevin O'Brien, SJ: https://www.amazon.com/Ignatian-Adven...

Transformational Coaching: https://www.newleafnetwork.ca/transfo...

Gravity Leadership:
https://gravityleadership.com/podcast/ (look for the episode on Axiom 5)

Neuroscience of Change:
https://www.coachesrising.com/neurosc...

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We explore scriptures that speak to us of how close God is, how he loves us without qualification, and how this impacts our daily lives.

Resources:

The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien, SJ: https://www.amazon.com/Ignatian-Adven...

Centering Prayers by Peter Traben Haas: https://www.amazon.com/Centering-Pray...

The Chosen:
https://studios.vidangel.com/the-chosen

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Is it OK to be afraid of the coronavirus?
Is there "good" fear and "bad" fear?
Why does the Bible teach us not to fear?
Are we supposed to just deny our emotions?
Isn't that unhealthy?

We need a better way to talk about FEAR, otherwise we will misunderstand the FAITH God is calling us into.

In this new episode Cyd and Geoff talk about what we can learn about fear from the story of Jesus calming the storm and calling the disciples into deeper faith.

They talk about two kinds of fear (bottom-up that is based in immediate survival and top-down that we have time to think about).  The first one is often called "good" fear (the fear God gave us to survive).  The second is "bad" fear (the fear that leads us away from faith). 

The end reminding us that "even though we walk through the valley of death, we will fear no evil, because God is with us" (Ps. 23).

Resources:
Joseph LeDoux, "Feelings: What Are They & How Does the Brain Make Them?"
oseph LeDoux, "Rethinking the Emotional Brain" (advanced).

And please CHECH OUT our new book, Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With Us.

"In a world dominated by feelings of deficiency and distress, we badly need to hear the message of this book." ~ James Bryan Smith, author of The Good and Beautiful God.

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Too often we think God is fine with us being separated from him.  But too often it is us who are happy to have things between us and God. It is us who are content to be distant.  

But can we—like our cat, Johnny—become desperate to be next to God, interested in what God is interested in, and discontent to be distant from God?

Cyd offers a brief reflection on trying to follow hard after God. 

Where are you feeling distant from God? And how can you press through into God’s presence, the presence that God always offers to us.


And please CHECH OUT Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With Us.

"In a world dominated by feelings of deficiency and distress, we badly need to hear the message of this book." ~ James Bryan Smith, author of The Good and Beautiful God

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Why did Jesus gather disciples who probably hated each other? What did this have to do with God's mission? And what can we learn from the Prince of Peace?

Cyd and Geoff talk with Dan White Jr, author of Love over Fear: Facing Monsters, Befriending Enemies, and Healing Our Polarized World. 

They talk about why we don't need better “conflict resolution” skills. Rather, we need better “dealing with our fear” skills—because while love cast fear (1 John 4:18), it is also true that fear casts out love. 

Concluding Challenge: If you are feeling spiritually dry.  Just take a step toward someone you consider an enemy, or who thinks you are their enemy. 

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And you can find Dan White Jr. on Facebook and Twitter, and please check out his book, Love Over Fear. 

We all fail at parenting.  It is what you do next that makes all the difference!

So often we want to be the perfect parents. But the reality is that we aren't.  So what do you do when you blow it?

Cyd and Geoff talk about the process of rupture and repair while parenting.  Cyd talks about her own journey of repair (reconciliation) with her own father, and how God our faith is always ready to connect with us when we feel like failures as parents.

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What does it mean to be a neighbor? What if it just meant learning to slow down, ask questions, really listen to the answers, and be honest with our emotions?  This is what it means to be attuned to someone, and how God attunes to us.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend Cyd and Geoff watched "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" with their two teenage boys.  In this bonus episode, all four sit down and talk about how Fred Rogers models God's transformative presence, the power of slowing down.  And they end by asking with Jesus was really this "nice" with people, and with "attuning" and "empathy" is really all that nice in the first place.

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