The Weight of Stillness Podcast
The Fords of the Living Room
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One Friday night, I found myself in a place I think some of you can relate to: exhausted, hurt, and sobbing alone on my living room floor. In the aftermath of a long week and a hard conversation with my husband, Kris, I sat with the weight of my own faults. Specifically, that sharp, sarcastic tone that tends to slip out when I’m drained. Or hot—but that’s a story for another day. As I sat there, I realized that these messy moments of marital discord are very real battlegrounds. A real battle was being waged for our marriage and for our very souls. In this episode, I’m getting a little nerdy and diving deep into two of my favorite scenes from The Wheel of Time and The Lord of the Rings. We’re talking about Lan Mandragoran’s defiant final stand and Arwen’s fierce protection of Frodo at the Ford of Bruinen. More importantly, we’re talking about how Jesus stands in the gap for us when we are too weak to fight for ourselves. And I’ll be honest here. I usually hate books and movies that have battles in them, and that’s putting it mildly. I also detest car/chase scenes, because what are those if not battles at high speed? But I digress… Outside of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which I only read once way back in the late 80s, I also grew up thinking I hated fantasy. So I avoided any thought of the genre. Like the plague. On purpose. But something happened in 2001 that shifted my thinking and opened my eyes up to the fantasy genre. It was the release of a small, barely known movie called The Fellowship of the Ring. Barely minutes into the film that I only begrudgingly went to see because I wanted to make my Tolkien-loving husband happy, I realized that I was about to be swept away into an adventure that would continue to speak to my life for decades. After watching those movies, I listened to the books. I never could understand why Tolkien spent so much time describing a tree, but not all writers think and write the same. I simply don’t care for all those details. And yet, I can go on and on and on, if it is a topic I feel passionately about. So perhaps I have been unfair to Tolkien. Perhaps my writing style is a lot closer to his, at the very least, in terms of length! It was a slippery slope after that, and my life was once again turned upside down when I began to listen to The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I could literally write for days about some of the profound truths contained in them. Somehow, after that, I heard about Brandon Sanderson. That put my husband and me both on a path to gorging ourselves on everything he had to offer. And boy was it a lot! We started with Mistborn, and when we learned that he would be completing Jordan’s books after his death, we were ecstatic. And while I am not talking about it today, Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive…well, I would spend even more time on that, if we all had that kind of time. But alas, that is a post (or 100) for another day. If you’ve ever felt like the enemy was closing in on your peace, your marriage, or your mind, this one is for you. We may fall down, but we are still in the fight. Jamie The Weight of Stillness is a reader-supported ministry. There will never be a paywall blocking you from fullaccess to what God is teaching me as I embracestillness. But if you are led to donate to this ministry God is birthing out of my journey, you can become a paid subscriber. Get full access to The Weight of Stillness at weightofstillness.substack.com/subscribe [https://weightofstillness.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]
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