S19 E2 - The Mysteries of Our Lives (Part 2)

Heather Khym (0:00)

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Sister Miriam James Heidland (1:37)

Well, hello and welcome to Season 19 of the Abiding Together Podcast. The Abiding Together Podcast is a place where you can find connection, rest, and encouragement on your journey with Jesus Christ. My name is Sister Miriam James-Hydland and every week I am joined by my two dear and wonderful and lovely friends, Michelle Benzinger and Heather Kim. And we talk about Jesus, we talk about life, we talk about beauty, hope, disappointment, sorrow, and what makes life beautiful and meaningful. So we pray that whatever you're facing right now, whatever's happening in your life, whatever you dream about, whatever you're sorrowful about, that you would find a place with Jesus right here on our podcast. So grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and welcome home.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of The Abiding Together Podcast, Season 19, Episode 2 So if you listened last week, we were sharing with you, we're going to just talk about some mysteries of our lives, these first two episodes. So last week, we talked about the joyful and the sorrowful mysteries. And if you want to listen to that, that's probably super helpful for your heart. If you want to jump right in here this week, we are going to talk about our Luminous and our Glorious Mysteries. And we were speaking last week, especially about in the joyful and the sorrowful of the presence of God with us in all things, that whether it's delightful and something we're very grateful for, something we're deeply struggling with, that the Lord is continually present. So we are going to just dive right into luminosity and our Luminous Mysteries. So just to give you a definition of a Luminous Mystery, would you pray about the Luminous Mysteries of your own life?

Luminous Mysteries are something the Lord brought to the light and an area of pruning, a longing and an ache and full of light, full of all kinds of beautiful things. So Michelle, would you like to share with us first, what is your Luminous Mysteries that you'd like to share? Your Luminous Mystery that you'd like to share with our listeners?

Michelle Benzinger (3:30)

My Luminous Mystery, like picking up from where we talked about last week, is this, the Lord has really been revealing to me the littler places that just need to be crushed, you know, and the areas that I think are, like I said, things that are not happening to me, but the things that the Lord is allowing, and he's actually using it for maturation and integration in my whole self. And I think one of the things the Lord has really highlighted to me is, y'all, I really stink at boundaries. Like I've talked about this before on the podcast, and I've gotten better with allowing some more external boundaries and allowing that. But there's something in me that feels like boundaries aren't kind. And that really that it is just, yeah. And the Lord has just been really revealing to me that boundaries are kind. And it is actually like love your neighbor as yourself. That is actually part of the great commandment. But there is something about that, that the Lord has just really been highlighting in me.