Episode 7: When the Ground Gives Way

There’s a particular embarrassment in admitting that a life you worked hard for no longer feels like one you know how to inhabit. You remember wanting these things. You remember what it took to get them. Saying something feels wrong now sounds ungrateful, so you start arguing with yourself before anyone else has said a word.

Maybe that argument reaches into your faith, too. You’d like to talk about what happened at church without being recruited into somebody’s case for staying or leaving. You want to understand why it still bothers you. Instead, you find yourself weighing what the conversation might cost, and deciding it’s easier not to have it.

In this episode of The Inner Work, I spend time with that collision: midlife change, church hurt, and the uneasy distance between the man you’ve learned to be and what you’re noticing now. Richard Rohr and Thomas Merton help frame the conversation, but the question belongs to your ordinary life, not just to a book about spirituality.

I’m interested in what becomes possible when you don’t have to rush into an explanation or make a major decision just to prove you’re doing something. If you’ve been wondering whether this restlessness deserves attention, watch the episode. You don’t need a position on God to enter the conversation.

If you’d like to respond, tell me what feels difficult to admit about this stage of your life. And if someone you know has been trying to talk about it, send him this episode. Subscribe for the next conversation.

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