Welcome back to Series 2 of Conversations with Rachael and Scott.
This podcast is a conversation between friends around a variety of topics, with a few guided questions.
We aim to introduce different topics to our audience and encourage people to continue the conversation further, such that the podcast is not the end point but the starting point for the topic of conversation. You may continue this with friends or family. It maybe with a home group from your church. It may randomly pop up in conversations that you don’t expect. Or you may just choose to reflect on the topic further as part of your prayer time or as part of your day.
Whichever way this happens, we hope that you will choose to engage with the conversations in your way as God continues to move and draw you closer into God’s presence. After all, we are all on the same journey in God revealing God to us. We are all different expressions of God revealing God’s self within our journeys and we are all at different stages of that journey too.
We hope that God will continue to encourage you through these conversations and continue to draw you deeper into God’s presence and give you peace as God reveals God’s self to you each day of your journey.
In this new season of Conversations, we will be building on our discussions in our last season of creativity and explore Limitations this season. In particular, throughout the season we will explore limitations in the context of creativity, and from this lead into how limitations impact on our spiritual journey.
In the first episode, we will start by exploring Freedom and Captivity, and what both mean.
What the world says is freedom often can imitate or ‘seem’ like freedom at first glance. However, the more we focus on ‘my freedom’ the more we get trapped or fooled to think that it is freedom and I’m doing this for everyone.
If you are lucky, the more you go inside this you start to realise that this is not freedom, but it is captivity (slavery) in a disguise. The trap for people around fighting for freedom is that it revolves around themselves and their rights.
And this is where the problem is, it revolves around the individual and doesn’t think or consider the other person or people or living things or our world that we are living in. Therefore, the fight for freedom really only becomes about a certain person or community getting their skewed sense of freedom while the rest are pushed to the periphery of community and placed into captivity.
Freedom isn’t freedom if it takes away from another. Unfortunately, this is how captivity gets disguised as freedom and these are the subtleties of captivity. Most people don’t wake up to this fact and it becomes the constant battle of self and my freedom which in turn we become a slave to, a perpetual cycle of self.
If you have any questions from Season 2, or would like to send us any messages, we would love to hear from you at: ConversationsWithRandS@gmail.com
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Music in the background from https://www.FesliyanStudios.com.
Music used in this podcast was Go Beyond, by David Fesliyan, Out and About, by David Renda, and Happy Tree, by Stephen Bennett.
Art work for this episode supplied by Rachael Diggle Art, with this month's piece called "Reveal", more at https://www.rachaeldiggleart.com.
