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The ramp to joy leads me to one of my favourite songs as a teenager, stairway to Heaven 🙏

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I am so tempted to share the thoughts that have come to me after listening to this, but I want to be still on this and process what it tells me. Thank you for sharing this, thank you for your heart’s. It’s so refreshing to hear from males in our younger generation share their thoughts and their hearts, I’m going to share this with my 25-year-old son and his girlfriend and I pray that they do take the time to listen and absorb it. I pray for them to accept Jesus in their lives. This has so helped me to appreciate my past shame and how God has given me the grace to no longer focus on that darkness that I carried for so long. I thank him for awakening me, you said shame has a role in our moral formation, that helps me so much to understand my past shame and it gives me strength. I love so many things that you shared about how we are hit with our emotions and that God is the giver of all our gifts and I recognize now that I was struggling all those years with a sense of wonder that was kept hidden from me which led to so much confusion for me as a child that continued into my later years. I praise God for revealing to me “his” wonder for us, his love. I am grateful for the times I didn’t feel enough and how I treated myself in my own eyes. I lowered myself and I see how others in their words made me feel lower, but I thank them so much for that.

it was so painful at the time but it has finally brought me to understand it. I believe we are all in search of understanding. Thank you God for Jesus to help us to not stay stuck in our grave of darkness and thank you for your deep grace that heals our shame.

Thank you for Patient Expectation, I thank the woman who gave me these words the other day. It’s a long wait sometimes but we can’t give up on searching. I hid my self for too long and kept that pain deep down inside. I felt invisible as you say, although I know I wasn’t to others. No one knew about my shame because I covered it well

I also love how you said reality must be embraced. I can now wrap my arms around my past even though it took a long time, it has changed me for good. Thank you God that I no longer focus on the negative, thank you Jesus for this. Thank you that you build us UP and created us to always look up. Thank you for your podcast that does lead to a ramp of everlasting joy, thank you that even though it is painful to each of us to expose the pain to recognize the need to have it exposed and thank you, father God for putting us on that pathway to your beauty so that we can become our true selves, ourselves in you father God. You keep me in awe, thank you so much for this podcast. I can’t wait to listen to it again And I will share it and I pray that it not be ignored and that it leads them to listen and that it stirs something up in them to just take the time to listen. And we know It’s OK with our Lord for those who do not listen because it might not be their timing. Thank you, Lord always for your perfect timing in Jesus name, Amen

Hmmmm I thought I wanted to just be still. Funny how God moves :)

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