Send us a Message Ever felt the pressure to paste on a smile when your heart is heavy? We dive straight into the paradox of positivity—how hope can heal, and how “forced cheerfulness” can quietly wound people who need space to lament, confess, and be seen. From Scripture’s witness to Jesus weeping to the everyday contradictions we all recognise in church car parks, we explore how a culture of performance forms and how to replace it with presence. We talk through the inputs that shape the sou...
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Send us a Message Ever felt the pressure to paste on a smile when your heart is heavy? We dive straight into the paradox of positivity—how hope can heal, and how “forced cheerfulness” can quietly wound people who need space to lament, confess, and be seen. From Scripture’s witness to Jesus weeping to the everyday contradictions we all recognise in church car parks, we explore how a culture of performance forms and how to replace it with presence. We talk through the inputs that shape the sou...
Reconnecting with Sacred Spaces: A Journey Through Prayer
CoffeePods
28 minutes
4 months ago
Reconnecting with Sacred Spaces: A Journey Through Prayer
Send us a Message Prayer—that mysterious conversation with the divine—takes center stage in this deeply personal episode recorded from a Swiss bus stop, a Northern Irish coastline, and everywhere in between. Chris opens with a moving story that left him teary-eyed: after 32 years, he returned to the exact mountain bench in Switzerland where, as a younger man, he had desperately begged God to reveal Himself. Miraculously, upon arriving with his wife, the bench cleared of tourists precisely as...
CoffeePods
Send us a Message Ever felt the pressure to paste on a smile when your heart is heavy? We dive straight into the paradox of positivity—how hope can heal, and how “forced cheerfulness” can quietly wound people who need space to lament, confess, and be seen. From Scripture’s witness to Jesus weeping to the everyday contradictions we all recognise in church car parks, we explore how a culture of performance forms and how to replace it with presence. We talk through the inputs that shape the sou...
