Obstacles to Receiving God’s Love (GH) | Ep 137

Why do we resist the very love that could heal us?In this Greenhouse episode, Brian, Handsome Kyle, and Doc continue the conversation from Episode 136 on receiving God’s love, vulnerability, and the Good Life. Season 7, Deep Calls to Deep, is exploring how we become people of depth — people increasingly formed by the love of God from the inside out.The conversation begins by revisiting the Good Life, the with-God life, Christian mysticism, and the surprising reality that many people who identify as Christians do not experience deep, daily, relational intimacy with God. If Jesus invites us into abiding peace, secure attachment, love that surpasses knowledge, and a conversational life with the Father, why does that life feel so rare?Brian, Handsome Kyle, and Doc then move into four obstacles to receiving God’s love with vulnerability: our need for control, our avoidance of pain, our sense of shame and unworthiness, and our mistrust of God’s character. These are not merely intellectual disagreements. They are often unconscious ideas rooted in our stories, wounds, relationships, fears, and experiences.The episode also explores the phrase “I’m fine” as one of the great enemies of depth. Many of us have learned to hide pain, avoid need, manage appearances, and present ourselves as okay even when we are not. But the Good Life requires vulnerability. It requires surrender. It requires allowing ourselves to be loved where we are actually hurting.Using personal stories, the Prodigal Son, contemplative prayer, C.S. Lewis, David Benner, and the Soil & Roots framework of ideas, this episode invites us to ask a deeper question: what keeps me from receiving the prodigal love of the Father?Join us online! Web: ⁠⁠https://soilandroots.org⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠ https://soilandroots.substack.com/