Episode 3, Season 1: Reclaiming God on Your Own Terms · Segment 1

You can say higher power all day long and it doesn’t cost you anything, and you can say the universe, and you can say something bigger than me, and nobody at that table so much as looks up. But there’s a short one, 3 letters, and that one catches somewhere between your chest and your teeth, and when somebody else drops it into a sentence you feel yourself tighten up a little. Nobody sees it. You know it happened.

And you’ve probably decided that means you don’t believe.

It doesn’t. That’s what this one is about.

There’s a man in here with 19 years on him, and a 24-year-old asked him one honest question out on a trail, and he answered it the way he’s answered it 400 times. Kid was satisfied. He wasn’t. Six weeks later he’s sitting across from me, and he still can’t put it down, and what he finally worked out about his own answer is the thing this whole episode hangs on.

There’s a practice at the end. 4 minutes, one piece of paper, and 4 rules about what you’re not allowed to write down.

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