The Ride Home with John and Kathy

4:00 PM to 4:10 PM **The Top 4 at 4** 4:10 PM to 4:25 PM Spiritual Practices: they don’t earn us anything, but are a process of de-cluttering our hearts and minds to experience what is there already ... GUEST Scott Erickson ... is a touring painter, performance speaker, & creative curate whose work appears on CNN, National Geographic, and various magazines, newspaper outlets, and book covers ... He is the co-author of “Prayer: Forty Days of Practice” and the author of “Honest Advent” ... (His current show, “SAY YES: A Liturgy of Not Giving Up On Yourself”, juxtaposes story- teaching, participation, humor, and image curation as Scott walks us through the very personal and universal conversation about the death of a dream and the overwhelming voice of Giving Up in our lives. 4:25 PM to 4:35 PM **This or That** 4:35 PM to 4:50 PM **If you had to cook a single meal to impress someone, what would you make?** 4:50 PM to 5:00 PM **A flight out of Hawaii is interrupted when multiple birds boarded the place and had to be guided out of the cabin (CNN)** 5:00 PM to 5:10 PM **Holding Tokyo Olympics w/o fans could hurt performance, organizers say (NYT) ... + ... **Athlete activism may be headed to Tokyo (WashPo)** 5:10 PM to 5:25 PM Walking Through Fire: A Memoir of Loss and Redemption (new book) ... GUEST Vaneetha Risner ... is a writer & speaker who helps people find hope in the midst of suffering ... Part of her story is losing her infant son, which was the inspiration for the hit song "Held," recorded by Natalie Grant ... She is also the author of “The Scars That Have Shaped Me: How God Meets Us in Suffering” ... Before she started writing, Vaneetha had a career in business & received her MBA from Stanford Grad School of Business ... Vaneetha is married to Joel & has 2 grown daughters ... (contracted polio as an infant, was misdiagnosed, & lived with widespread paralysis, in & out of the hospital for 10 yrs ... she became a Christian, w carefree college days, a dream job in Boston, and an MBA from Stanford where she met & married a classmate ... but life unraveled. Again ... She had 4 miscarriages; her son died because of a dr's mistake ... and she was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, meaning she would likely become a quadriplegic ... & then her husband betrayed her & moved out, leaving her to raise 2 adolescent daughters alone ... This was not the abundant life she thought God had promised her. But, as Vaneetha discovered, everything she experienced was designed to draw her closer to Christ as she discovered "that intimacy with God in suffering can be breathtakingly beautiful”) 5:25 PM to 5:35 PM **For another year, the world’s most famous door-knocking ministry will stay home (RNS)** 5:35 PM to 5:50 PM **The Week in Review**  5:50 PM to 6:00 PM **5 things to do in Pgh this weekend** 5:50 PM to 6:00 PM **Michigan man unearths 158 bowling balls under his porch (BoingBoing) ... + ... Ukraine’s army orders female soldiers to march in high heels (BoingBoing) .... + ... In 1961 the Yankees told her she couldn’t be a bat girl; 60 yrs later, it happened (WashPo)**See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.