As Unconventional Leaders, we value relationships. We want to fit in while also standing out. Paul Young joins us today to explore the most important relationship and how it affects all our other relationships. He reminds us to be comfortable with who we are and find the truth of our being.
Wm Paul Young, author of The Shack, Cross Roads, Eve, The Shack Reflections and Cross Roads Reflections, and Lies We Believe About God, was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was Netherlands New Guinea (now West Papua). He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the “wastefulness of grace” with his growing family in the Pacific Northwest.
Facts never tell real stories. The journey has been both incredible and unbearable, a desperate grasping after grace and wholeness, the pain of trying to adjust to different cultures, of life losses that seemed too staggering to bear, of living with an underlying volume of shame so deep that it constantly threatened any sense of sanity, of dreams not only destroyed but obliterated by personal failure, of hope so tenuous that only the trigger seemed to offer a solution. A few facts also do not speak to the potency of love and forgiveness, the arduous road of reconciliation, the surprises of grace and community, of transformational healing and the unexpected emergence of joy.
Connect with Paul Young: http://wmpaulyoung.com/
QUESTIONS ASKED:
How do we explore faith without ostracizing ourselves? How do you know you’ve experienced the True God?
FROM TODAY’s EPISODE:
The power of love between a parent and child Moving past hurt by religion Believing God loves us and is good Dealing with shame and the need to belong An unconventional approach to viewing the child/parent relationship Overcoming the addiction of certainty
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