Episode 80: Fill These Hearts with Christopher West

Everything we do—good, evil, neutral—speaks to our longing for heaven. World-renowned teacher of Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body and bestselling author, Christopher West, leans into this longing and unpacks it with outrageous wisdom and tenderness.

This is one we are all going to be going back and listening to several times. It is that rich.

(And don't worry: Those of you who want some of that goofball action, we make sure to talk about rats dying in Wendy's grease buckets. Yep.)

 

//: Highlights:

• ​"Here’s the whole Bible in five words: ‘God wants to marry us.’” --Christopher West
• ​"​We have three choices when it comes to our desire: We are either going to become the Stoic and repress the desire, an Addict and indulge in the finite pleasures of the world that never satisfy, or I am going to become…[an] Aspiring Mystic…someone who opens their hunger to the infinite.” --Christopher West

 

//: Question of the Week for Next Week:

• What were you modeled/taught to do with your emotions growing up? Share them? Bury them? Open up and emphasize certain ones? (Like anger?)

 

//: Do the Next Thing:

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