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Let Love Lead Me

Dear Human is a Verb Community, I am reading The Cloud of Unknowing this week. (God) wants you to lock your eyes on him and leave him alone to work in you. Your part is to protect the door and windows, keeping out intruders and flies. And if you’re willing to do that, just ask him, praying humbly, and he will help you immediately. (Ch 2, Bucher Translation) I’ve been sitting with this invitation: lock your eyes on God and let the work of love be done in you. My part is the locking. God’s part is the loving. How much better would my world be if I simply held that division of labor? Guard the door and window of the heart. Stay present. And trust that the loving is already underway. It is easier said than done. And yet, there is an invitation to surrender here that something deep in me recognizes and wants. When I sat with that image long enough, I wanted to pray it with music. I worked with AI to develop “Let Love Lead Me,” trying to let the Cloud‘s invitation become something I could live into through music. This week, I am aware of how much we need, as persons and as a society, for love to lead us. I hope this song encourages you the way it has encouraged me. Peace, Julene Get full access to Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D. at humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

We Are Still Here; Psalm 118: Praying with Scripture and Song Episode 7

Dear Human Is A Verb Community- In this final episode of the seven-part “Praying with Scripture and Song” series, we pray with Psalm 118, a marching psalm. I imagine a village gathering in the streets to do what Barbara Holmes calls “singing themselves sane” and what Walter Brueggemann calls “risky speech.” We need more of both right now. Psalm 118 gives witness to people who knew what it meant to march together, to call for justice, and to remember who they are in the face of violence and injustice. These were not passive people. They were practitioners of communal lament, and they survived together under pressure for a very long time. I am tired of the abuse of power in government, in institutions, in churches. And I know I am not alone. Neither are you. Through Lectio Divina, breathwork, and the song “We Are Still Here [https://suno.com/s/oPoTuue4zVQJOTOO],” this episode honors those of us who have been through something and are still going through something. What activists and agents of social change have long understood is that the inner life and the active life are deeply connected. You cannot have outer peace without inner peace. It is precisely when we are grounded inside that we find the capacity to raise our voices together and proclaim: we are still here. My prayer is that this episode helps your nervous system settle, and that you find yourself joining the long procession of those who have come before us, and those who will come after, in singing what has always been true: God’s love endures forever. A Prayer for a People Who Protest Lord, we come to you as a people, a village from separate rooms and separate roads and separate griefs. But together in this, we are joining a prayer that has been spoken across centuries by a people who knew what it was to be threatened and to have their lives on the line, and who stood on the edge of falling and found that you were there. So for the ones who feel hard pressed right now, whose bodies know the tight places before their minds have words for it, God, would you bring them into a spacious place? You’ve done it before, so would you do it again? For the ones in the streets, the ones placing their bodies in the path of what they believe, you have always been found in that kind of movement. God, would you be with them? Hold what is fragile in them, protect the hope that brought them there. And for the ones who have stopped trusting in princes, who have watched the structures they built their lives around fail to hold even when it seems to matter, God, remind them that refuge is still available, that it has always been available, that you have never moved. For those whose grief has set up its altars in their bodies, who are carrying things they cannot yet locate or name, let something in them know a little more clearly that the village is with them in it. That they are not alone in the dark. We are still here, still crying out, still hoping, still a village, even if we’re scattered, still singing ourselves towards something we cannot yet see. His love endures forever. His love endures forever. Amen. About This Series This is the seventh and final episode of “Praying with Scripture and Song,” a mini-series exploring contemplative prayer through the ancient practice of Lectio Divina. Each episode invites listeners to slow down, listen deeply, and pray with Scripture alongside music created for the journey. This series is part of Human as a Verb, a podcast about practicing the sacred work of being human—an extension of Everyday Peacemaking, a ministry built around the belief that our inner life and our relational life are deeply connected. If you’ve missed a prayer practice in this series, you can access the first four here: Episode 1, Soften me, Oh God: Psalm 51 [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia] Episode 2, Hiding Place: Psalm 32 [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia] Episode 3, Still Walking: Psalm 121 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/tired-still-walking-lenten-spiritual?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 4, Drop Everything: Psalm 95 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/drop-everything-and-listen-psalm?r=32c4ia&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] Episode 5, You Might Be Real: Psalm 23 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/you-might-be-real-psalm-23-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 6, Wait for Morning: Psalm 130 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/wait-for-morning-psalm-130-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Thank you for praying with us through all seven episodes. The village keeps gathering, and we hope you’ll stay with us as Human as a Verb continues. Connect * Website: everydaypeacemaking.org [http://www.everydaypeacemaking.org] * Music: Link to “We Are Still Here” [https://suno.com/s/oPoTuue4zVQJOTOO] * Link to song on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/track/0MAzBX14MBtxt7gaLLh36l?si=f893030d1305433b] Get full access to Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D. at humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Wait for Morning; Psalm 130: Praying With Scripture and Song Episode 6

Dear Human is a Verb Community- If you ever feel like you are sinking and crying out from a dark place, this episode is for you. Life is hard, right?! It has been hard for my family lately. People we love are not well. The loss of work and income seems to be the season we’re perpetually living in. We are looking for more stability! I know I’m not alone when I think—more change?!? And yet! God is here, even here. And we wait for that faithfulness to be uncovered. Psalm 130 has been a reminder of God’s faithfulness even in the midst of the hard. Peace, Julene Episode Overview Welcome to the sixth episode of the seven-part mini-series Praying with Scripture and Song. In this contemplative episode, I guide listeners through Psalm 130 using the ancient practice of Lectio Divina—a meditative approach to scripture that creates space for honesty, quiet, and the soul to emerge from hiding. Episode Prayer Lord, we come to you from the depths, from dark places. The hopes that we've stopped mentioning out loud 'cause it's exhausting to keep hoping. The futures we've carefully mapped and watched come apart, and the ground we built on turned out to be less solid than we thought. God, we are a people in the middle of something. Most of us don't have clean language for what it is. We just know that we're tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix, that we're afraid of things. We can't even quite name that we’ve lost some things we didn’t expect to lose, and we’re still learning what it means to live without them. God, your ears are attentive to our cry. You're already leaning in. For everyone doing the long, unglamorous work of waiting in the dark, be what the Psalm promises: the love that has not moved, the mourning that is already on its way. God, we are still crying. Still hoping, still here, and you have been waiting for us longer than we know. Amen. What You’ll Experience * Guided Breathing Exercise: Five slow breaths to settle your nervous system and create space for listening * Lectio Divina Practice: Four movements through Psalm 130—descent, meditation, prayer, and contemplative rest * Suno Song: “Wait for Morning [https://suno.com/s/oPoTuue4zVQJOTOO],” developed by Julene * Closing Prayer: A prayer for those feel like they are sinking doing the “long unglamorous work of waiting in the dark.” Resources * Song “Wait for Morning [https://suno.com/s/zGDi2iDUyXc1PNxl]” available by clicking on the link or on Spotify here. [https://open.spotify.com/track/0MAzBX14MBtxt7gaLLh36l?si=85d1c5035e4040ae] * Music created using Suno * Learn more about Soul Companioning/Spiritual Direction at everydaypeacemaking.org/spiritual direction [http://www.everydaypeacemaking.org/spiritualdirection] Next Episode Episode 7 (series finale): Praying with Psalm 118 About the Host Julene Tegerstrand is a spiritual director and co-founder of Everyday Peacemaking, a ministry exploring the connection between our inner life and relational life. Support the Podcast Monthly subscription: a few dollars | Yearly: $70 Or share this episode with someone who needs it The Whole Series If you’ve missed a prayer practice in this series, you can access the first four here: Episode 1, February 11- Soften me, Oh God: Psalm 51 [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia] Episode 2, February 18 - Hiding Place: Psalm 32 [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia] Episode 3, February 25 - Still Walking: Psalm 121 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/tired-still-walking-lenten-spiritual?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 4, March 3 - Drop Everything: Psalm 95 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/drop-everything-and-listen-psalm?r=32c4ia&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] Episode 5, March 11 - You Might Be Real: Psalm 23 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/you-might-be-real-psalm-23-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 7: March 25 - God Still Lives; Psalm 118 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/we-are-still-here-psalm-118-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] “May you live and breathe and pray in such a way that you grow into your true humanity.” Get full access to Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D. at humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

You Might Be Real; Psalm 23: Praying With Scripture and Song Episode 5

Dear Human is a Verb Community - Psalm 23 is probably the most familiar psalm in the world. Most of us have heard it at funerals and memorized it as children. I’ve been sitting with this psalm for the past several weeks, and I’m reminded that the psalm isn’t about a life without darkness. The shepherd leads the psalmist through the darkest valley, not around it. The table is set in the presence of enemies, not after they’re gone. The rest I so need is not out there somewhere past the hard thing. The rest is with the Shepherd, inside the hard thing. I don’t know about you, but I need to be reminded of this almost daily. About this episode This episode, the 5th in a seven-episode mini-series, uses Lectio Divina to slowly move through Psalm 23, using a food metaphor. We take a bite of the text, chew it, savor it, and rest while it digests. You’ll also hear a song I developed based on the psalm called You Might Be Real. You can listen to it directly here: You Might Be Real; Psalm 23. [https://suno.com/s/NPOqeBAG5HC26Xml] It lives in the gap between “besides still waters” and the actual life most of us are living, where sickness happens, losses arrive without warning, and the valley is real. Yet, I follow, though I don't feelI hope You might be realEven when I cannot seePlease lead me....If You're near, then show me howTo trust You in the right here nowI don't ask for skies to partJust be the hand that holds my heart A prayer for hard places Whether you listen to the full episode or not, I want to offer you this prayer. It’s what came out of me at the end of the recording, and it’s for anyone in a valley right now or anyone loving someone who is. Shepherd God, you who hold the depths and shape the sea and still stoop to call us by name, we come to you from some very hard places today. For the ones who are sitting in a hospital room right now, or who are doing the slow, exhausting, sacred work of caring for someone they love who is not going to be the same. God, we need the valley to mean something. We need you to be in it, not just waiting on the other side. For those who find “I shall not want” almost unbearable to say right now, because they want their life back and don’t want to be this tired, don’t ask them to stop wanting. Just come near. For the ones who are angry, who have lived through enough already and are not sure they have language for what they’re feeling, you are large enough to hold that. You have held that before. The psalms are full of it. Prepare a table, even here, even now, even in this presence, even in this grief. Lead the ones who are too worn down to choose a direction. Feed the ones who have been doing all the feeding. And for those sitting in a silence that is not peaceful but just empty, stay in it with them. Be the thing that does not leave. Amen. The full episode, including the breathing practice, the Lectio Divina, and the song, is above. If you’re in a season where you need someone to slow you down and help you pray, I hope you’ll press play. And if this landed somewhere real for you, would you share it with someone who might need it? That’s genuinely one of the best ways to help this work reach more people. Access the song from this episode: You Might Be Real, on Suno [https://suno.com/s/WRS2OKAQUqbaGKSC] You Might Be Real, On Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/track/2LwtszptwPJidTCo8gaR0R?si=ef39df7485f44591] The Whole Series If you’ve missed a prayer practice in this series, you can access the first four here: Here is the full schedule of practices/episodes: Episode 1, Soften me, Oh God: Psalm 51 [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia] Episode 2, Hiding Place: Psalm 32 [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia] Episode 3, Still Walking: Psalm 121 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/tired-still-walking-lenten-spiritual?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 4, Drop Everything: Psalm 95 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/drop-everything-and-listen-psalm?r=32c4ia&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] Episode 5,You Might Be Real: Psalm 23 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/you-might-be-real-psalm-23-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 6, Wait for Morning: Psalm 130 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/wait-for-morning-psalm-130-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 7: We Are Still Here; Psalm 118 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/we-are-still-here-psalm-118-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] May you live and breathe and pray in such a way that you grow into your true humanity. Peace, Julene Get full access to Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D. at humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Drop Everything and Listen. Psalm 95: Praying With Scripture and Song Episode 4

Dear Human is a Verb Community, This is the fourth installment of our Praying with Scripture and Song mini-series. Each episode take the Psalm and facilitates Lectio Divina and Prayer. When I was working on this someone I love had a major health crisis and I was dealing with other hard life challenges that couldn’t be easily ‘figured out.’ I spent days doing what I imagine you do in your own hard seasons: look around at all of it, the fragility, the massive loss, the uncertainty, the things I take completely for granted, and say something that is part prayer and part yell. Something like, What the %$#, God? Sometimes I don’t know what else to do with what life throws at me. Have you ever screamed (even if only in your mind) something like that? Good thing God can take it. I set out to develop this mini-series of spiritual practices for anyone else who would listen, and it is clear—these are for me. You get to listen in on what Julene needs right now—and this week, I need Psalm 95. Forty years of people who had watched God work, who had seen the manna and the water from the rock and the cloud and the fire, and still couldn’t quite trust what they were seeing. The wilderness was real and long and confusing. Fear kept winning. I recognize that. Drop everything and listen. That’s what this episode asks of us. Listening is hard when life is breaking open. The hard things don’t resolve just because we get quiet. And yet the Shepherd is still speaking, and somewhere in this psalm is the word that rest, real rest, is still available. The song for this episode is called Drop Everything. You can listen to it directly here: Drop Everything; Psalm 95. [https://suno.com/s/VQKkySBfZ2Gl4hz9] Peace, Julene Here is the full schedule of practices/episodes: Episode 1, Soften me, Oh God: Psalm 51 [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia] Episode 2, Hiding Place: Psalm 32 [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia] Episode 3, Still Walking: Psalm 121 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/tired-still-walking-lenten-spiritual?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 4, Drop Everything: Psalm 95 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/drop-everything-and-listen-psalm?r=32c4ia&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] Episode 5,You Might Be Real: Psalm 23 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/you-might-be-real-psalm-23-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 6, Wait for Morning: Psalm 130 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/wait-for-morning-psalm-130-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Episode 7: We Are Still Here; Psalm 118 [https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/we-are-still-here-psalm-118-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Welcome Welcome to Human is a Verb, a podcast about practicing the sacred work of being human. My name is Julene Tegerstrand. I’m a spiritual director and co-founder of Everyday Peacemaking, a ministry my husband Steve and I are building around the belief that our inner life and our relational life are deeply connected. This podcast is an extension of Everyday Peacemaking. This is the fourth episode of a seven-part mini-series called Praying with Scripture and Song. What we do here is simple. We’re going to pray with scripture. We’ll practice some stillness. We’ll grow in our inner capacity for peace so that we can carry it somewhere into our real lives. Today we’re praying with Psalm 95, verses six through eleven, using The Message. We’re using an ancient practice of the church called Lectio Divina, which helps us move from the surface of a text down into the depths. Arriving Before we enter the text, let’s take a moment to arrive. Feel whatever is holding you right now. The chair beneath you, the ground under your feet. Let your hands rest somewhere comfortable. We’re going to take five slow breaths together. The exhale will be a little longer than the inhale, and that’s intentional. A longer exhale sends a small physical signal to your nervous system, like: we’re okay right now. We can listen. Breathe in: 1, 2, 3, 4. Breathe out: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Repeat five times, then let your breath return to its natural rhythm. Notice the space around you. Notice what you see. Feel your hands, feel your feet, and then just return to wherever it is that you are sitting or standing. About This Practice The ancient church believed that scripture was a living thing, a mystery with multiple layers waiting to open us, and that the way we enter those layers is through receptivity. For this Lectio Divina practice, we will move through four of these layers: • The literal sense: what is actually happening in the text • The Christological sense: how this text opens into the larger story of God and Christ • The moral sense: what this text asks of us right now, in our real lives • The mystical sense: a place of stillness where we simply rest Round One: The Literal Sense In this first round, we’re listening for what the text is actually doing. As I read, notice the movement. The psalm opens in warmth, communal and expansive, full of we and our. Come, let us worship. We are his people. He is our God. And then a voice breaks in and says: Drop everything and listen. That’s an interruption born of God’s love for us. It’s like someone who sees us about to step into traffic and reaches out a hand. Notice that movement as I read aloud. So come, let us worship. Bow before him, on your knees before God, who made us. Oh yes, he’s our God, and we’re the people of his pastures, the flock he feeds. Drop everything and listen. Listen as he speaks. Don’t turn a deaf ear, as in the bitter uprising, as on the day of the wilderness test, when your ancestors turned and put me to the test. For forty years they watched me at work among them. As over and over they tried my patience and I was provoked. Oh, I was provoked. Can’t they keep their minds on God for five minutes? Do they simply refuse to walk down my road? Exasperated, I exploded: They’ll never get where they’re headed, never be able to sit down and rest. Hold what you just heard. Drop everything and listen. (Pause for reflection.) Round Two: The Christological Sense In this second round, we listen for how this text opens into the wider story of God in Christ. As I read again, let one phrase become an anchor for you. Maybe it’s the flock he feeds. Maybe something else will catch your attention more. Hold whatever it is you choose. The early Christians who prayed this psalm heard the flock he feeds and thought of Jesus saying: I am the good shepherd. My sheep hear my voice. The God whose voice breaks into the psalm is the same God who became flesh and walked among us. Let that open something as I read again. So come, let us worship. Bow down before him, on your knees before God who made us. Oh yes, he’s our God, and we’re the people of his pastures, the flock he feeds. Drop everything and listen. Listen as he speaks. Don’t turn a deaf ear, as in the bitter uprising, as on the day of the wilderness test, when your ancestors turned and put me to the test. For forty years they watched me at work among them. As over and over they tried my patience and I was provoked. Oh, I was provoked. Can’t they keep their minds on God for five minutes? Do they simply refuse to walk down my road? Exasperated, I exploded: They’ll never get where they’re headed, never be able to sit down and rest. Notice what word or phrase is staying with you, whatever genuinely caught your ear. Hold that. (Pause for reflection.) Round Three: The Moral Sense This is the round where we bring our actual life into the light of what we’ve been hearing. The text says: Drop everything and listen. And it carries that old story of people who couldn’t quite do it. They had seen God work for forty years. The manna, the water from the rock, the cloud and the fire. They just kept trusting their fear more than the voice that was trying to lead them. They kept managing things themselves rather than following. This is a deeply human story. And it deserves to be held with compassion for ourselves and an openness to what God might have for us. I’ll ask a few questions and then pause for you to prayerfully consider them. Where do you notice yourself struggling to listen right now? (Pause.) In the line, “Can’t they keep their minds on God for five minutes?” invite that to land in you. Take an honest look at where your attention keeps going. If it is pulled away, what pulls it away? What has you bracing, or spinning, or restless? (Pause.) If anything comes to the surface, take this opportunity to listen to God in prayer. Now bring one specific situation to prayer. Maybe it’s a relationship, a decision, a fear, or just a concern you’ve been carrying. Round 4: The Mystical Sense The last line of this passage speaks of people who were never able to sit down and rest. They kept moving past it. The rest was there, and they couldn’t receive it. So now we practice receiving. Wherever you are, whether you’re walking, driving, or sitting down, I invite you to allow something in you to stop and to rest. Let yourself feel held. (Extended pause.) The Song: Drop Everything The song you’re about to hear was written from inside the psalm and created using an AI musical tool called Suno. When I developed the lyrics for these songs, I’m really trying to hold two things at once: the world the psalm came from, and the world I’m actually living in. The distance between those two is usually smaller than I expect. Psalm 95 was the Invitatory, the very first prayer monks sang every morning before anything else. Come, let us worship. Drop everything and listen. Today, if you hear his voice. Every morning, the same invitation, the same word: today. What I kept sitting with as I worked on these lyrics was the wilderness story at the center of the psalm. Those forty years weren’t years of abandonment, even though I imagine they felt like it. God was present every single day. The people just kept being unable to trust what they were seeing. They chose their fear over the voice that was trying to lead them somewhere restful and good. The rest was always available. They kept walking past it. I wanted the song to carry God speaking, the voice of the Shepherd saying: even now, even today, I will lead you. I will feed you. I am listening to you too. (Song: “Drop Everything”) [https://suno.com/s/VQKkySBfZ2Gl4hz9] Closing Prayer God, who pastures and feeds us, God who speaks into the middle of our singing and says, listen, we come to you as the flock we actually are. Sometimes scattered. A lot of times distracted. Trusting our own management of our lives a little more than we’d like to admit. For everyone listening who feels like they’ve been in the wilderness a long time: please come near. Remind us that your rest is here, with you, and that it always has been. For the ones whose attention keeps splintering, who can’t seem to hold still for five minutes: let this be enough. For the ones who have been managing and steering and holding everything together: grant the particular mercy of being led, for a moment, of being the flock and trusting the shepherd. And for all of us today, in whatever situation we find ourselves, we ask that you go before us. Please keep speaking. We want to be people who hear your voice and follow. Amen. Outro Thank you for praying with us today. The music in this episode was created using Suno. You can find a link to the song “Drop Everything” on my Substack at humanisaverb.substack.com, and it will also be in the show notes. Human is a Verb exists because I believe the inner life is our foundation. The practices we do here, the stillness, the listening, the honest prayer, they’re all how we grow the capacity for peace that eventually shapes how we live with the people around us. That’s the whole project. If that resonates with you, there are two ways to go deeper. The first is soul companioning, or one-on-one spiritual direction with me. If you’re in a season of transition, I’d love to accompany you. You can find more information at www.everydaypeacemaking.org [http://www.everydaypeacemaking.org]. The second is becoming a paid subscriber to Human is a Verb. A monthly subscription is just a few dollars, and a yearly subscription is $70. Your support is what makes this work sustainable. And if paying isn’t in the cards for you right now, that is completely okay. Sharing this episode with someone who might need it is a genuine gift to them and to this work. The larger this community grows, the more this can offer. In the next episode, we’ll be praying with Psalm 23, and I’ll share a song called “You Might Be Real.” I hope you’ll come back and pray with us. May you live and breathe and pray in such a way that you grow into your true humanity. Get full access to Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D. at humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe [https://humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]