What if some of the burdens weighing us down aren’t crosses God has asked us to carry—but stories we’ve created around the life we wish we had?
In this vulnerable and deeply personal episode, Alex reflects on the difference between real suffering and the additional weight we can create through comparison, expectations, resistance, and attachment to a particular outcome. Drawing on the wisdom of St. Francis de Sales, St. Thérèse, Job, the three young men in Daniel, and Christ in Gethsemane, she explores what it means to desire good things without allowing our peace to depend on receiving them.
Using the image of the wooden cup and the silver cup, this episode is an invitation to stop waiting for the “perfect” circumstances to begin living faithfully—and instead to recognise the grace, love, and life God is offering us right now.
Can we still hope, pray, dream, and work towards change while surrendering the outcome to God? Can we want the silver cup, while still gratefully drinking the water?
A reflection on surrender, spiritual freedom, unnecessary suffering, and learning to become holy in the life we actually have.
Thank you to Marie Miller for her music for the intro and outro
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