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The Ridiculous Hour
by The Ridiculous Hour Foundation
The Ridiculous Hour Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring lives ridiculously responsive to the promptings of God. Monthly, the Foundation releases mission packs that challenge recipients to grow in practical responsiveness to the promptings of God. In this podcast, Founder Kat Silverglate, brings each mission challenge to life through story, expanded content, prayer and ridiculous encouragement. Won't you join us as we grow toward ridiculous responsiveness?
Episodes
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Episode 82: Be Low the Surface
A man died in his neighborhood and wasn't discovered for months. Lev Montgomery was rocked to his core. How is it possible nobody knew this neighbor beyond the surface of watching him periodically come and go? How much of "neighboring" includes the real risk of knowing and being known? Listen as...
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Episode 81: Becoming Overpackers - For Me, For You, For Us!
Two little girls meet in middle school and bond over rescue horses. They dream of a future that includes horses and children and spouses and families that love both. Listen as they unwind more than four decades of friendship including trauma and unspeakable hardship -- that results in a wild…
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Episode 80: In-formation
Sometimes we don't need more information, we simply need to allow ourselves to see how we are being formed in the waiting. When we've done all we know to do, and we come to the end of ourselves, our good ideas, our best actions, availing ourselves to the help that has come... perhaps we are in…
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Episode 79: Builders - Weapons of Mass Construction
We are builders by nature. We build families and houses and companies. We build names for ourselves and libraries and friendships. We were made to build. When the Lord decides to build His dwelling in our hearts, He makes us new and places us as weapons of mass construction in a disintegrating...
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Episode 78: The US in Trust
Roxanna Miyares learned, in a most shocking way, that trusting God includes learning to trust those He sends our way in response to our prayers. Only God would invite a 4'11", self-described "most non-athletic woman on the planet," to grow in trust publicly through coaches, teammates, teachers…
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Episode 77: Perfect Has a Made
Our story this month seems totally made up. You may have a hard time believing it is true, until you read past the highlight reel of her life. Diana Timmons ridiculous life includes time with Pope Francis, Zig Ziglar, Barbara Bush, Joel Osteen, Dallas Willard, and time in The White House, the...
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Episode 76: The Architecture of Beginning: Starting in the Middle
For the most part, we don't start at the beginning of much in life, do we? We are born into the middle of our parents' lives, a political culture, a particular century. When we meet new people, we don't start with "in the beginning." We don't say: "My parents decided to have a second child in New...
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Episode 75: Look Again
What we magnify, we become. Sounds a little dramatic, doesn't it? Samuel Hubbard Scudder, a mid 1800's scientist, learned that lesson in a most humorous way from a quirky passionate professor -- a mentor he credits with the way he walked the rest of his career, eventually becoming the foremost...
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Episode 74: The Order Project - Hidden Treasure
In this Episode we'll met a metal-detecting, treasure-hunting lawyer who faced a personal storm that brought anxiety to the surface of his life -- a storm he preferred to keep buried. When an emotional storm swept a fellow-lawyer away, his own hidden struggle with anxiety seemed more like…
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Episode 73: Tiny in a Spacious Place
She was angry when things didn't go the way she hoped. She prayed. Everybody prayed. But God said no. Her anger was tempered, however, by a crack in its hot logic -- her father's faith grew the sicker he got. With every unanswered prayer, he seemed to fall more in love with the Lord. Meet Hannah...
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Episode 72: Finishing School
If we are meant to live lives worthy of our callings, how exactly do we figure out calling? The concept can seem a bit amorphous until we look at a real life in the rearview mirror. Until we see the least likely candidate for speaking [severe speech impediment] and writing [average student] and...
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Episode 71: Threshold
When Mr. Ed snuck across the threshold of his daughter's life, Don Blackwell went through a heart scrubbing of sorts. Mr. Ed is a akin to the mayhem character in the Allstate commercials -- showing up for no other reason than to bring disorder to life. Mr. Ed, unlike Allstate's Mayhem, has a...
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Episode 70: Guidance - The Pilgrim's Power
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is so tall that the top is sometimes covered in clouds. When the clouds are low, you can see a curved pole on one side and a curved pole on the other but you cannot see where they connect. You know they do. You can see they must. But how? It's beyond our sight. The...
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Episode 69: The Story I Want My Life to Tell
Andy Stanley’s book on minimizing regrets by making better decisions gives several questions to ask before making important choices [Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets]. They’re all great questions, but this one – what story do you want your life to tell – is profoundly halting for anybody who...
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Episode 68: Find Me; Yay, I'm Here
Sometimes you need to know how lost you are before you want to be found; want to be rescued. That's what Spencer Silverglate discovered on a dusky evening while lost deep in the woods of North Carolina on his trusty Mountain Bike. Join Kat Silverglate, founder of the Mobile Mission Project at the...
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Episode 67: Name Alert
Pliny the Elder, a first century secular naturalist, is often quoted for the principle that you cannot appreciate the magnitude of redemption until you glimpse the depth of the darkness from which it came. He says it this way: “The depth of the darkness to which you can descend and still live is…
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Episode 66: Not Crushed, Not Abandoned
We never mean to carry someone poorly through loss. We don't plan to drop them or miss a step in how we show up. Nor do we plan to push people away when we are in the pit, but we aren't sure how to let ourselves/others be THAT vulnerable. THAT messy. THAT exposed. We either move quickly to the...
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Episode 65: You Are My Mother [originally Episode 66]
The name her birth parents gave her included a Bassa tribal word that means "God's Power." Nobody could know in 1950's Liberia how she'd come to depend on that power. Born into impossible odds to a traditional father who declared, "girls have no value," she contracted polio at two losing the full...
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Episode 64: Stop the Movie
Ever play that worst case scenario movie in you head? Thinking about what might go wrong? Ever let that movie affect the way you choose to live? In our story this month, we'll meet Uri Melendez, a woman who appeared to the casual observer as fearless in her approach to life, undaunted by hard...
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Episode 63: Ridiculous Hours
We often hear that expectations are the enemy of joy, but could it be more nuanced than that? After all, when the seed of something is planted in a heart, or a womb, don’t we begin to think about what could be for this potential creation? What should be? Aren’t those good things? Most certainly!...
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Episode 62: Packed & Ready
Ever seen one of those videos of a baby with total hearing loss hearing for the first time post surgery? You see the too-awesome-to-comprehend-feeling overwhelm them as an unspeakably beautiful thing they’ve never experienced and didn’t even know existed enters their sphere. Or the child with...
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Episode 61 Symphonic Expectations
So much is written about the danger of expectations. But the reality of our life in Christ is built on promises that command hopeful expectations. Like a symphony where instruments enter and exit at appointed times, so to do we experience God's presence through others who are responding to His...
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Episode 60: Up Club
In many ways, we are living arrows, pointing others in various directions. Whether we speak up or stay silent, our action and inaction both point, sometimes in subtle ways, toward or away from potential help. When subtlety isn't what Abigail Wallace needed in the winter of 2014, she learned…
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Episode 59: Tamper Evident Joy
Ever see those "tamper resistant seals" that restaurants use on plastic to-go cups to assure the purchaser that the drink is safe? It's a long thin strip that covers the lid and then sticks to the sides of the cup. If someone breaks the seal and opens the lid, you know it has been "tampered"…
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Episode 58: Wash
If anybody asked us whether our lives had a central theme, we'd probably bumble and stumble and waffle and throw in a generous number of "umms" while we awkwardly sorted out loud. But not Zelma Colon. When you ask Zelma for the theme that sums up her one ridiculous life, she doesn't even pause.…
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Episode 57: Feather Weight
Conflict is weighty. Unresolved conflict after genuine attempts at reconciliation can be downright heavy. Our story begins with a priest telling a woman to take a feather pillow to the top of a bell tower and release the feathers. It continues with a woman placing a snow white feather in the…
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Episode 56: Moved
Does anybody love moving? Sure, we may love where we are going, like change or love that we are leaving something behind, but the physical act of moving... not so much. As unsettling as it is though, moving implies a modicum control. Of choice. But being moved... involuntarily... can imply more...
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Episode 55: Partly Cloudy With a Chance of...
For most of us, receiving help is harder than giving it. Particularly when we don't know someone very well. We want to hold our own umbrellas in stormy times. But to allow others to cover us? It requires the humility to receive. The humility to be a part of something far bigger than self. The...
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Episode 54: Don't Forget to Remember
In her book Compelled by Love, Heidi Baker, a missionary in Mozambique, describes a condition we may all have. Or perhaps a touch of. She calls it an orphan spirit. In the Lord, we are adopted children with full access to everything in our Father's house but we live as if the things of God are…
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Episode 53: Blah Blah Blah
Imposter syndrome plagues writers. No matter how many times you try to talk them off the ledge or give them a pep talk, they wonder if their words are gonna sound like a whole lot of "blah blah blah" to the reader. But it isn't just writers, it's most folks with a story to tell. If we are found…
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Episode 52: Thunk Thunk Thunk
The racetrack ride at Disney – The Speedway to Tomorrowland – is shockingly real to a kid. Bright popping colorful cars, twisty tracks, revving engines, low leather bucket seats and nobby rubber steering wheels all feel so real. But it’s the actual ride that eventually brings deeper meaning to…
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Episode 51: Do-Over
Ever ironed a crease in the wrong spot in a garment? Once that crease gets set and cool, it's pretty challenging to press it out, isn't it? Dry cleaners actually use special tags to make sure a crease doesn't end up where one doesn't belong. They say CREASE and NO CREASE. And if they miss the…
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Episode 50: I Signed Up for This
We've all said it. Under our breath. In our heads. On our knees. To a trusted friend in whispered tones. "I didn't sign up for this!" At the start, we genuinely want in. At the startline, we are focused on the rightness of the endeavor, or the possibilities for the future, or the hope or promise…
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Episode 49: Boxing
Some say when we pray for patience, God allows challenges and tests. How else would one know the presence of patience if not by circumstances that require it? During a challenge, as our agitation builds, we look at the person getting on our last nerve, and we blame them for our disquietude. But...
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Episode 48: Pocket Confetti
Have you seen that viral social media post with the eight-year-old in the car with Mom? 8YO: “Do you want me to throw the confetti in my pocket?” Mom: “No not in the car! – why do you have confetti in your pocket?” 8yo: “It’s my emergency confetti, I carry it everywhere in case there is good…
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Episode 47: Feast Mode
When we are invited to a dinner with fancy napkins, we know there's something more than food being served. We know that we will be fed by something else. Something with meaning. Something deeper. Our mission story this month begins with a tribute to the co-founder of a food pantry in South…
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Episode 46: Lights Up, So That...
Our story this month begins with a five-time Emmy winning sports producer who moves from a big city to Boise Idaho to start a family and a family business: "I went from a bustling city working 60 hours a week in a high-profile job that held spotlights on ratings, followers, likes, clicks, views…
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Episode 45: Salt & ...
You ARE (fill in the blank) is very different than you MUST BE something. Or you HAVE something. Think about these you are statements... If you got the news... You ARE now a Florida Gator... you wouldn't keep submitting your college application, would you? When you grow up hearing your parents...
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Episode 44: Mid-Life: Reinforcing Holes
The phrase mid-life is curious, isn't it? Especially when we have no way of knowing where the middle will be. Which is why mid-life tends to have us reinforcing holes. Asking questions like: “What have I left undone?” “What should I be doing in the time I have left?” Our mission story begins with...
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Episode 43: Old Love New Love
There is a truth that would make most of us viscerally nod our heads up and down -- a phrase that tugs our heart strings when we pause to think about the folks who live this out in our lives -- a phrase that reaches a deep tender place... We long to be both fully known and still fully loved.…
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Episode 42: Still with the IF in LifE
We are so fond of the phrase "life is a gift," and it is; but, the middle letters in both these words, life and gift, are IF. Both center on the ability to question. It's what sets us apart. Makes us human, right? If we aren't careful, we can fall into the trap of believing that questions and...
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Episode 41: Tested Hope
What is hope before it's tested? It's a funny question, isn't it? I mean, we know transformation happens between untested and tested hope, but what kind? C.S. Lewis focuses his answer on revelation in his book A Grief Observed: “God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order…
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Episode 40: Active Waiting
Waiting sounds like such a passive thing, doesn't it? The act of waiting. You let time pass until the wait is over and then you go on, right? Sometimes we do, but not always. Not when it's the hardest kind of waiting. Not when it is the kind of waiting where you have zero control over the outcome...
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Episode 39: Nothing Wasted With God
I'm too old. I'm too young. I'm too inexperienced. I'm too poor. I don't have any talents. I'm too tired. I'm too busy. I'm not creative. I'm not bold. I'm afraid. I'm not fixed enough. I'm not ready. I'm not equipped. I'm not good at anything special. I'm afraid to fail. I'm shy. I don't have...
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Episode 38: Texture
In 1964 a father penned a bedtime story for his sons called Flat Stanley. In it, Stanley is flattened by a falling bulletin board which makes it possible for him to be sent through the postal service in an envelope to a friend in another state. He returns in a fresh new envelope full of stories...
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Episode 37: Counting Detours
We buy planners this time of year. Preprinted commercial books that give space for yearly goals, monthly calendars, daily plans. We are given room to write and then check off our accomplishments. Set our top priorities. Even schedule our days by 30 minute increments. Doesn't it seem a bit odd…
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Episode 36: More!
Our mission story this month starts with a little girl who communicates through sign language a desperate desire for more time with her grandmother and ends with a sign language word that we may decide to use for the rest of our lives to remind ourselves and others that there is always more with...
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Episode 35: Team Lift
Have you ever seen a team lift? A group of people reaching the least, the lost and the lonely TOGETHER! It's beautiful thing to witness isn't it? You see from afar that God is working through that team, but you hang back because it wasn't the burning bush moment you where hoping for. Or what…
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Episode 34: Do Not Stack
Do you give your trust to God in difficult circumstances and then find yourself fretting, worrying, and spinning? Do you give it to Him and then take it back? Do you give it to Him again and then wonder why you couldn't resist the urge to snatch it back? Do you give it to Him yet again and then...
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Episode 33: God Size
Are you a resizer? You feel a nudge, a poke, a prompt a call from the Lord and immediately decide it's the wrong size? "Oh no Lord, that's way outside my comfort zone. Can you resize that? Make it medium please. Just squarely in the middle of my natural talents and abilities. I know how to use...
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The Ridiculous Hour Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring lives ridiculously responsive to the promptings of God. Monthly, the Foundation releases mission packs that challenge recipients to grow in practical responsiveness to the promptings of God. In this podcast, Founder Kat Silverglate, brings each mission challenge to life through story, expanded content, prayer and ridiculous encouragement. Won't you join us as we grow toward ridiculous responsiveness?
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