The Pause Podcast

For Day 10, we travel with Jesus to his hometown, where he receives a harsh and mocking welcome. Marri and Lindsay unpack this concept of “hometown” and explore how our pasts can influence or even limit our obedience to our calling.

Mindfulness Practice: Hometown Visualization

Let’s take a quick left turn and talk about sandwiches…quarantine sandwiches, crunch factor, and finally - the Markan Sandwich. Lindsay and Marri talk about this literary tool, how it works and why Mark employs it so often….This episode will probably make you hungry.

Mindfulness Practice: Moments With the Savior Reading

Mark 5 has everything: naked graveyard roamers, pig stampedes, secrets, blood disease...After marveling over the craziness of this chapter, Marri and Lindsay focus on the powerful and sinister theme of isolation running through each story. We ask ourselves who are the most isolated people in our own communities.

Mindfulness Practice: Modified Examen

2020 has been a doozy and for some of us, it feels like we’re at sea in the midst of a hurricane. Luckily, there’s a Bible story for that. Today we explore Mark 4, where the disciples find Jesus asleep during the storm. What do their reactions (and our own!) show us about faith?

Mindfulness Practice: Boat Visualization

Welcome to Week 2 of Mark! In today’s episode we meet the 12 apostles. We talk about the difference between an apostle and a disciple, hear more about Lindsay’s thing for Peter, express our jealousy of the nickname SONS OF THUNDER and marvel over Jesus’ incredible graciousness toward this ragtag group of dum dums He calls into ministry with him.

Mindfulness Practice: Silent Reflection

We kick off our study of Chapter 3 with a rollicking journey through history. 600 BC-33 AD in just a few short minutes!? Sign us up. We talk about the history of the Jewish temple and how the Pharisees identity was all tangled up in it. Come for the ancient history lesson and stay for the silent meditation at the end — these girls know how to party.

Mindfulness Practice: 10 MINUTES OF SILENCE

How do you make wine in a sippy cup? What does a gleeful rat sound like? Are the Pharisees angry, scared or both? Answers to all of these questions and some others you didn’t know you needed in today’s episode. Plus, we practice a new mindfulness tool at the end!

Mindfulness practice: Breath Prayer (with added time)

Today we meet one of the most important characters in the Book of Mark: The Crowd. This group of hecklers and naysayers is so prominent throughout the book that they take on a very crucial role. Marri and Lindsay explore the story of Jesus healing the paralytic and end up stumbling into a fascinating discussion about The Crowd.

Mindfulness practice: Obstacle Visualization

In this episode we meet Mystical Marri and Logical Lindsay, who - not surprisingly- have very different stances on the concept of MIRACLES but both fangirl a bit over John the Baptist. 

Mindfulness practice: “Dear Body” Letter

Day 1 of our 30 day exploration of the Book of Mark! In this introductory episode, Marri and Lindsay learn a bit about the background of this book, laugh at the terrible-awesomeness of its author’s writing style and spend some time in silence with this question: 

Who do you say that Jesus is?

Mindfulness Practice: Guided Prayer