Solitude (ft. Tyler Staton) | Unforced Rhythms of Grace E4

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

"When you're waiting, you're not doing nothing. You're doing the most important something there is. You're allowing your soul to grow up. If you can't wait, you can't become what God created you to be." - Unknown

In a world that is full of noise and activity, solitude is deeply uncomfortable for many of us. Yet it's core to the way of Jesus. Tyler explores the importance of solitude in our apprenticeship, slowing us down to God's pace and giving us hope in the waiting. He ends with practical examples of how to create rhythms of solitude in our everyday lives.

Key Scripture Passage: Psalm 131

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at practicing the way.
0:11.0	Each week on the podcast we share a teaching from John Mark or other
0:15.2	trusted voices in the formation space. Today we continue our series in
0:21.0	partnership with Bridgetown Church on nine practices for a rule of life.
0:26.3	In this teaching, Tyler explores the practice of solitude as an act of sacred waiting. In solitude he tells us we discover depth and develop a relationship
0:36.4	built more on God's presence than his gifts. Or in the words of one monk, solitude is where our soul grows up.
0:45.9	As you listen, you might like to contemplate the question,
0:49.2	how do I experience seasons of waiting on God. Here's Tyler.
0:56.5	Psalm 131. My heart is not proud Lord. My eyes are not haughty. I do not concern myself with great matters or things too
1:08.0	wonderful for me, but I have calmed and quieted myself and I'm like a weaned child with its mother like a weaned
1:16.0	child I am content Israel put your hope in the Lord both now and forever more this is the word of the Lord both now and forever more. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
1:31.8	In her phenomenal memoir, Sue Monk Kidd describes in detail the crisis point in her spiritual life.
1:41.0	She, a follower of Jesus, a wife, and a working mom was right in the thick of the
1:47.4	chaos that is midlife. Her kids had now grown old enough to begin to find some independence and so she was functioning more as like soccer mom's chauffeur than she was stroller pushing and playground sitting at this particular stage and with a little bit more independence for her children
2:05.0	came a little more independence for her and so she reached to pick up some of those aspects of
2:11.0	her life that she had deferred in the toddler years her work and her hobbies
2:15.6	and her passions but she was also confronted by so much that she had deferred
2:20.8	within herself in the daily chaos that is raising toddlers
2:24.5	resentment that had built up in her marriage over time some loss of her sense of
2:29.7	self like who she used to be she wasn't anymore but who she was becoming hadn't come into clear focus yet either and then some loss of God of knowing God in her everyday ordinary life the way she had been used to before.
2:46.0	And so in the midst of all of that, she traveled to St. Mindred Arch Abbey, which is a Benedictine
2:51.4	monastery in the state of Indiana in an attempt to
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