{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Prayers for the Permanent Collection","title":"All Things New | Teach Us the Patience to Heal","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":207,"description":"All Things New\nTeach us the patience to heal\nJesus, \nWe love disposable things.Plastic containers and bags filling oceans and landfills.We tend to replace broken things,not repair them.Take a sip and discard;microwave, eat, and discard.Something broken?No problem!Go to Amazon, click, click, click,overnight delivery and boom!Broken thing replaced, not repaired.The little luxuries that wealth affordsfor expediency’s sake and convenience’s glory.\nNo wonder we don’t know how to heal!We have no resilience in the struggle,no patience for the waiting, no empathy for those who are too far away from wealth to hear her shouting“No problem!” and close enough to povertyto hear her whisper“You are stuck!” \nBut you,being able to change the world faster than a microwave turns kernels into popcorn,chose the slow path of birth and growth.Nine months in mom’s womb,childhood playing and learning Torah,youth watching dad and learning a craft,thirty whole years before you announced“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,Because he has anointed meto preach good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim release to the captivesand recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressedto proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.You weren’t interested in convenience and expediency;you wanted re-creation and redemptionbecause the world is too precious to be disposableand creation too beautiful to be abandoned.\nYou died on the cross a slow, painful death so every part of uswould be healed and redeemed. We were fragmented, shattered in millions of piecesby sin’s hammering force.But your blood glued us togetherrestoring our souls to reflect youand re-creating your image. \nPiece by piece you have taught usthat you don’t give up on things;you don’t give up on us.We are not disposable! You have bestowed on us the dignity of redemption,the privilege of growing slow,the sacredness of healing wellso that we may show off our scars.\nHealer, \nTeach us to love lacquer and glue.Grant us the patience to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ecB9oF1Zt1WpqVBmlsCUKi05JtYwosraqr-jnsSGTuM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iZTlh/OGZmYmIzNjAwN2Iz/OGJhMTEzYTlhYjg1/NWIwZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}