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On my way home from the conference, I read Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. It’s a book that friends gave to us, a story of nonreligious thoughts, experiences and spiritual journey.

I think part of my problem is that I want spirituality to be more close and more real. I understand why people wear crystals around their necks and why they perform chants and gaze at the stars. They are lonely. I’m not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny little people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars. And it’s not like God has a call-in radio show.
page 92

Ah, but what if God had a podcast?!…a Godcast?!
no sooner have I drafted this quote then I happen to tune into Adam’s Curry’s recorded podcast for November 11th which featured the mention of Godcast, shows in the ipodder religion directory…

Imagine if God had a call-in radio show?! Who would call in and what would be said?!

Or imagine if God had a podcast, a message you could hear every day…

I also liked this insight that also used radio for illustration…

Living in community made me realize one of my faults: I was addicted to myself. All I thought about was myself. The only thing I really cared about was myself. I had very little concept of love, altruism or sacrifice. I discovered that my mind is like a radio that picks up only one station, the one that plays me: K-DON, all Don, all the time.
page 181

Hey, I think I have one of those inner radio stations too, not K-DON, of course….

I also appreciated this thought.

And that’s when I realized that believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
page 104

I liked the idea that faith is like falling in love…