203: Slowing to the Pace of Love
Unhurried Living
English - November 29, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutes - 9.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Christianity unhurried living leadership spiritual formation influence spiritual direction hurry margin spiritual practices alan fadling gem fadling Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Think about the stories when Jesus and his disciples are on their way somewhere. The disciples often seem agenda-oriented and, therefore, they become quite frustrated when Jesus keeps stopping to talk with or to help one individual along the way. They seem to think that all this stopping is getting in the way of arriving where they are going.
They feel like they are going to serve a whole village and Jesus keeps stopping to help one person. Why does he do this? Because, better than any of us, Jesus lives at the pace of perfect love.
His disciples feel like like Jesus is inefficient. But love often feels inefficient to us. Let's hear more on today's episode of The Unhurried Living Podcast.