Why is the journey often better than the destination? Why does the grass seem greener on the other side? This experience of things never quite measuring up to expectations is what we are discussing today.

This has been a subtle theme throughout our podcast, but today we wanted to discuss it specifically. Something I’ve learned is that I need to spend more time doing the things I joy. These simple things are reminders that God has given us desires to make the world a better place.

We have our good friend Laura Taylor discuss her experience as a professional artist. One of the things I’ve learned from this discussion is how technique and inspiration come together to make beauty, and how that beauty can bring us back to God.

Ted Kluck joined us today to talk about story and imagination. In this discussion I learned that this is something in our day we have to work at getting back to. It’s worth it because it can teach me how to be alone in my thoughts and meet God there.

This week we discuss some false ideas we’ve had about motivation in the past. In our experience we have found that it is better to take the act of love in service to our neighbor even when we don’t feel like it and find the motivation somewhere along the way.

We start off differentiating vacationing from a previous episode on rest. We talk about our experience with this topic, our struggles with it, and how we want to do better. I’m uploading this from Orange Beach. Im not sure if that means I’m vacationing right or not, but here’s to progress not perfection.

When I first thought about this topic it seemed like loyalty was clearly a virtue. The more I thought about it and discussed with Clint the more complex this topic became. We try and define it and speak from our own experience with it. Hope you enjoy!

Today we talk about an ancient Christian concept that essentially says good things come from mistakes. This saying actually goes farther and says it’s good that a mistake was made because now redemption and reconciliation is possible whereas before it wasn’t. We wanted to have a conversation and see if this perspective would help in our day to day.

Have you ever had to leave a job? Angie is moving to a new state and is leaving her current job. Today we discuss how she has wrestled with wanting to do that well. I am thankful for the conversation because I gleaned principles that I’ll practice that go beyond the scope of simply leaving a job.

Last week we talked about mourning with others being the easier of the two. The more we discussed the more we came to the conclusion that it’s just as difficult to mourn with others well. Why bother? We find that it nourishes the soul to practice this behavior.