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EP 55 | The Garden: When Life Is Growing Slowly

What do you do when growth feels painfully slow? In this reflective episode, Jonathan Kindler continues The Places We Find Ourselves series by exploring the garden—those seasons where God is working, but the fruit is not obvious yet. Through John 15:1–8 and Psalm 1:1–3, this episode looks at what it means to abide in Christ, stay planted in the Word, and trust the Father’s careful cultivation when change feels hidden, unfinished, or slower than expected. Blending scripture, counseling insight, personal storytelling, and honest reflection, Jonathan helps listeners recognize that the presence of struggle does not always mean the absence of growth. Sometimes growth looks like seeing the pattern sooner, confessing more honestly, repairing more quickly, and staying near the Vine when the fruit has not come in season yet. Whether you feel stuck, discouraged, spiritually impatient, or tired of asking, “Why am I not further along by now?” this episode calls you back to a quieter hope: slow is not the same as dead. Hidden is not the same as absent. Unfinished is not the same as fake. Fruit comes in season. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live

EP 54 | The Waiting Room: When Life Feels Stalled

What do you believe God is doing when nothing appears to be moving? In this reflective episode, Jonathan Kindler explores the quiet ache of waiting through the lens of Psalm 40 and Lamentations 3. The waiting room is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is just slow. The answer has not come. The door has not opened. The grief has not lifted. And the longer we wait, the more our hearts start interpreting the silence. Blending scripture, storytelling, and counseling insight, this episode looks at what waiting exposes in us: our fears, our assumptions, our need for control, and the stories we begin telling ourselves about God when life feels stalled. But Psalm 40 reminds us that waiting is not nothing. It is faith refusing to move on from God. Whether you are waiting for clarity, healing, reconciliation, relief, or your own heart to feel alive again, this episode calls you to name what you are waiting for, refuse to turn delay into a verdict, and take the next faithful step. The waiting room may feel still, but stillness is not the same thing as abandonment. The Lord hears before you see movement. He works before you feel it. And He knows how to bring His people up. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live

EP 53 | The Sound Mind Help Desk

What happens when Jonathan tries to take a break… and somehow still records an episode? In this lighter episode, Jonathan celebrates 52 straight weeks of Sound Mind by turning episode 53 into an automated help desk. Instead of a normal deep-dive, this “day off secret show” gives listeners a quick guide for how to use the first year of episodes, where to start if they’re new, how to search by topic at lfbi.org/soundmind, and how to share episodes with people who might need them. Along the way, Jonathan reflects on what year one has revealed: people are hungry for something real, honest, rooted, and biblical in a world that often feels filtered, managed, and distant from what is actually happening in us. He also looks ahead to year two, with more listener questions, conversations, practical tools, and episodes that help bring real life into the light of Scripture. Whether you’ve been here since episode one or you’re just now finding the show, this episode is a quick breather, a thank-you, and a practical guide to help you start where you are. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live

EP 52 | The Storm: When Control Comes Apart

What do you do when life gets bigger than your ability to control it? In this episode, Jonathan Kindler continues The Places We Find Ourselves series by moving from the desert to the storm. Through Psalm 107:23–30, he explores what happens when the thing beneath you starts moving, when your plans stop holding, and when your soul feels like it is melting under the weight of what you cannot fix. Blending scripture, storytelling, and honest reflection, this episode looks at the difference between faithful responsibility and anxious control. The storm exposes what we trust when control comes apart, but Psalm 107 reminds us that the waves are not sovereign. The Lord still rules the deep. He hears the cry. He calms what man cannot. And He knows how to bring His people to haven. Whether you are at your wit’s end, trying to hold everything together, or learning the hard mercy of dependence, this episode calls you back to the One who is not shaken by the storm. To trust. To cry out. To remember that the waves over your head are not over His throne. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live

EP 51 | The Desert: When Thirst Tells the Truth

What do you do when life feels dry, empty, and strangely hard to explain? In this immersive episode, Jonathan Kindler begins a new series called The Places We Find Ourselves by exploring the desert seasons of the soul through Psalm 107. Sometimes hardship does not look like crisis. Sometimes it looks like responsibility. You are still showing up, still working, still caring for people, still doing what needs to be done, but underneath it all, something feels faint. Blending Scripture, storytelling, biblical counseling insight, and honest reflection, this episode gives language to the dry places where comfort gets thin, thirst starts telling the truth, and false relief begins to look like water. Through Psalm 107 and the promise of Christ as the bread of life, Jonathan points listeners back to the God who hears, leads, and satisfies the longing soul. Whether you are wandering, weary, spiritually dry, or just realizing that the things you keep reaching for cannot finally satisfy, this episode is an invitation to bring your thirst honestly before the Lord. The desert may tell the truth about your thirst, but it does not get the final word. The Lord does. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live