The Gift of Sadness, Nostalgia & Practices for Winter Seasons | Jonathan & Melissa Helser
Jonathan David & Melissa Helser Podcast
Jonathan Helser
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a special conversation between Jonathan & Melissa Helser and Chris Miller. They dive into what it means to live in the full range of emotions during winter seasons. They talk about how “Sadness is required to truly experience Joy” and what it means to share our feelings with the close people around us as well as talking about practices to stay centered in hard seasons. We hope that this conversation gives you new tools for any season you are in and tools for engaging with the seasons your friends or family are in.
This conversation was inspired by the release of our new album Sing Winter. We have created a nostalgic winter album to honor the hope and the tenderness of the season. May you cherish moments that become sacred memories, and may you feel deeply met as you unapologetically honor the reverence, sorrow, and joy of life. It is in embracing every part of life that we know we are truly alive. Our prayer is that your winter season will sing, and that you will feel enveloped in the hope that Jesus brings. Merry Christmas from the Cageless Birds 🕊️
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| 0:00.0 | When they say, look how much Jesus loved his friend was when tears were coming down the face of the Son of God. |
| 0:07.2 | Before the joy of resurrection comes off his lips, the tears of friendship run down his face. |
| 0:14.5 | When we decided to give our tears to our children, all it meant was that they mattered because it's like, I'm never |
| 0:22.6 | going to have that moment again. And my tears, they bathe the memory in dignity and they bathe |
| 0:29.8 | it in honor and they mark it forever. I have a window right now of like being something different. So they become something different. |
| 0:39.3 | I steward nostalgia because I steward that my life mattered. |
| 0:43.3 | If I don't really do we learned, and we've |
| 1:09.0 | spoken to this, that we've learned to embrace every season of life. |
| 1:13.2 | Because there has been a lot of sadness. |
| 1:16.5 | And I think, as, I want to unpack a few thoughts, because this is a really important topic for us, for me. |
| 1:28.3 | I, I just, I've learned to value it |
| 1:33.3 | because what I've observed as a pastor, a leader, |
| 1:36.3 | someone who's done 16 years of discipleship schools, |
| 1:39.3 | 20 plus years of camps and all ages, |
| 1:42.3 | old, young, teenagers, 40-year-olds, 30-year-olds. |
| 1:47.3 | What I have observed is that when we suppress emotion and we decide we're not going to do |
| 1:57.2 | that because it's just too much, it will eventually come out. But if we learn, |
| 2:03.7 | and I say learn on purpose, if we give space to learn how to do emotion, it will pass through. |
| 2:13.3 | And it's not as scary as it seems it's going to be. |
| 2:20.9 | But when we say, I'm not going to do sadness, I'm just going to look at the happy, happy, happy part. |
| 2:24.5 | We push the sadness down. |
| 2:26.2 | We push it to the back, you know, of our hearts. |
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