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Daily Readings by Wild at Heart

Daily Readings are a daily excerpt from books and teachings from John and Stasi Eldredge and Morgan Snyder.

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2:04

Turning from Attachment to Desire

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/28

So much of the journey forward involves a letting go of all that once brought us life. We turn away from the familiar abiding places of the heart, the false selves we have lived out, the strengths we have used to make a place for ourselves and all our false loves, and we venture forth in our hearts to trace the steps of the One who said, "Follow me." In a way, it means that we stop pretending: that life is better than it is, that we are happier than we are, that the false selves we present

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2:46

Benevolent Detachment

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/27

To make room for God to fill the vessel of our soul, we have to begin moving out some of the unnecessary clutter that continually accumulates there like the junk drawer in your kitchen. Everybody has a junk drawer, that black hole for car keys, pens, paper clips, gum, all the small flotsam and jetsam that accumulates over time. Our souls accumulate stuff, too, pulling it in like a magnet. And so Augustine said we must empty ourselves of all that fills us, so that we may be filled with what

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1:29

It Must Be Small

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/26

When he left Rivendell, Frodo didn't head out with a thousand Elves. He had eight companions. Jesus didn't march around backed by legions of angels, either. He had twelve men—knuckleheads, every last one of them, but they were a band of brothers. This is the way of the kingdom of God. Though we are part of a great company, we are meant to live in little platoons. The little companies we form must be small enough for each of the members to know one another as friends and allies.Who will

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1:41

Surrender

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/25

The time has come for us to quit playing chess with God over our lives. We cannot win, but we can delay the victory, dragging on the pain of grasping and the poison of possessing. You see, there are two kinds of losses in life. The first is shared by all mankind — the losses that come to us. Call them what you will — accidents, fate, acts of God. The point is that we have no control over them. We do not determine when, where, what, or even how. There is no predicting these losses; they

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1:48

How Long, O Lord?

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/24

When God comes to call Jeremiah to be his prophet of hard sayings to Judah, Jeremiah protests, saying, "'Ah, Sovereign LORD ... I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.' But the LORD said to me, 'Do not say, "I am only a child." You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,' declares the LORD" (Jer. 1:6-8). God is saying that these things will be done through Jeremiah's dependence on his strength

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2:05

Risking Coming Home as a Son

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/23

Today’s Daily Reading is an excerpt from Morgan Snyder's book “Becoming a King”The first doorway we must travel through on our path toward becoming a king is to choose sonship. It is a choice.Are we willing to become our Father’s sons again?Will you open your heart to unlearn the Father as you have learned him and instead learn him as he truly is? The Father is pursuing you. He is opening up his heart and his kingdom and his treasures to you. He is asking, Son, are you ready to become who

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2:01

Through the Easy and the Hard

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/22

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. —Henri J. M. Nouwen When I was young, I thought that following God and being a Christian would lead to a life that was kind of easy, filled only with happiness and free from pain and sorrow. Silly me. I’m not even sure where I got that idea, except maybe from teachings spouted by TV evangelists who espoused a prosperity “name it and claim it” doctrine that was popular when I first chose to follow Jesus

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3:48

Waiting

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/21

To wait is to learn the spiritual grace of detachment, the freedom of desire. Not the absence of desire, but desire at rest. St. John of the Cross lamented that “the desires weary and fatigue the soul; for they are like restless and discontented children, who are ever demanding this or that from their mother, and are never contented.” Detachment is coming to the place where those demanding children are at peace. As King David said, “I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child

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2:20

Paradise Lost

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/20

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'""You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your

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1:25

Core vs. Corps

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/19

Lately, the surge is toward “justice Christianity” — intervening to prevent human trafficking or slavery, caring for indigenous cultures or for the planet itself. And it is right and it is wrong. My goodness, yes, of course God cares about justice. But to be frank, it is actually not the central theme of the Bible. Christianity isn’t simply a religious version of the Peace Corps.All of these “camps” are Christianity — sort of. Like elevator music is music — sort of. Like veggie burgers are

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1:58

Joy

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/18

Why don’t I wake with a joyful heart? Joy was just here. Where did it go?I began to realize that what I’ve done for most of my life is resign myself to this idea: I’m really not going to have any lasting joy. And from that resignation, I’ve gone on to try and find what I could have. Women do this in marriage. They see that they are not going to have any real intimacy with their husbands, so they lose themselves in soaps or tabloids or romance novels. Men find their work a sort of slow

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2:33

Glorious Ruins

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/17

We are not what we were meant to be, and we know it. If, when passing a stranger on the street, we happen to meet eyes, we quickly avert our glance. Cramped into the awkward community of an elevator, we search for something, anything to look at instead of each other. We sense that our real self is ruined, and we fear to be seen. But think for a moment about the millions of tourists who visit ancient sites like the Parthenon, the Colosseum, and the Pyramids. Though ravaged by time, the

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0:59

Buyer's Remorse

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/16

The book “Killing Lions” is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face. [Sam] Our adolescent culture really does play into our confusion; with so many answers supposedly on the other side of our keyboards, we often won’t ask for counsel, and even more often don’t want to ask anyway. I have found myself swinging between being impulsive and being immobilized, and from what I’ve seen I’m not alone. If the choice is up to us and no other guidance is

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1:27

Sure, I'll Pray For You

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/15

I’ve come to the place where I have had to stop telling people, “I’ll pray for you.” I simply know that despite my good intentions — and these promises are almost always spoken with good intent — I know that nine times out of ten I just don’t remember to follow through. Not until maybe a week or two later, and then I feel guilty that I forgot. I don’t like promising something I probably won’t live up to. You know how these stories go: someone you care about tells you of their pain, need, or

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1:53

Pressure or a Free Heart?

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/14

The only person that can satisfy the aching abyss of the human heart is Jesus Christ. —Oswald Chambers I hate Valentines Day. There, I said it. Most of the guys reading this just thought, Yes! I can’t believe he said that. Most of the women just thought, What a jerk! I can’t believe he said that. But it’s true. I hate Valentine's Day. And Stasi loves it; it’s one of her favorite holidays. (God, what are you thinking?!). I hate being told, “Today, you will be romantic. Today, you will be

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3:33

God As Lover

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/13

John Wesley was thirty-five when he experienced the now famous "warming" of his heart — not his mind — toward Christ, and knew in that moment he had become not merely a Christian, but something more — a lover of God. Shortly after, he penned the hymn "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," whose first verse goes like this: "Jesus, Lover of my soul/Let me to thy bosom fly." Down through the years the hymn has left many a hymnologist reaching for a more palatable translation, "the difficulty," as John

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3:36

Understanding The Feminine Heart

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/12

There are three desires that I have found essential to a woman’s heart, which are not entirely different from a man’s and yet they remain distinctly feminine. Not every woman wants a battle to fight, but every woman yearns to be fought for. Listen to the longing of a woman’s heart: She wants to be more than noticed — she wants to be wanted. She wants to be pursued.Every woman also wants an adventure to share. “I want to be Isabo in Ladyhawk,” confessed a female friend. “To be cherished,

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1:45

Love in Action

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/11

His ability to live with all these qualities we’ve seen, in such a way that no one quality dominates—as is so often the case in our personalities—eclipsing the richness of the others. To live in such a way that there is always something of an element of surprise, and yet, however he acts turns out to be exactly what was needed in the moment. Oh, his brilliance shines through, but never blinding, never overbearing. He is not glistening white marble. He is the playfulness of creation, scandal

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1:17

The Root of Joy

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/10

The reason a woman wants a beauty to unveil, the reason she asks, Do you delight in me? is simply that God does as well. God is captivating beauty. As David prays, “One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may...gaze upon the beauty of the LORD” (Ps. 27:4). Can there be any doubt that God wants to be worshiped? That he wants to be seen, and for us to be captivated by what we see? As C. S. Lewis wrote, “The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to

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2:03

You Long for the Day

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/02/09

Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are his judgments. (Revelation 19:1–2)Evil judged and utterly destroyed. Forever and ever. Not just in the fairy tale, but in your story. Satan, his armies, and every form of evil are destroyed with a punishment that never ends.What will it be like to no longer be assaulted? To look in the mirror and hear no accusing thoughts or voices? To be completely free of all temptation and the sabotage of your

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