When Advent Is Complicated

Our December episode looks at the complex version of the Advent season. Rick, Jenna, and Sandee are joined by Rick's wife, Laura, as she talks about walking with her daughter with special needs.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome
01:27 Sandee's Sphinxsteen
04:14 Theme of a Suffering Advent
07:27 Laura's Story of Lottie Joy
10:48 Complicated Hope & Surrender to Suffering
19:20 Stephanie Duncan Smith on Expansion
26:51 Joy in Integrating Reality and Idealism
30:33 Slowing Down, Breathing to Stay Available
34:53 The Potato Farmer
37:46 Humility as a Posture of Acceptance
42:48 Rick: In the Still of the Night
45:20 Wrap up