Episode Details

We linger on Hosea’s surprising image of God as a parent teaching a child to walk, lifting us up with patient love when we fall. We also face the slow drift of sin, rediscover God as our healer, and hear Jesus’ call to give freely because grace is always a gift. 
• God pictured as a father who teaches and steadies 
• God lifting us up rather than waiting for failure 
• spiritual drift as a gradual loosening of prayer and practice 
• “They did not know that I was their healer” and our search for peace elsewhere 
• healing through returning to God, especially in the sacraments 
• “Without cost you have received, without cost you are to give” as a definition of Christian life 
• letting go of false security in possessions and trusting the One who sends us 

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