Longings, Part 4: Peace

Transcript of a Sage Hill Live Fully Podcast conversation with Dr. Chip Dodd. Lightly edited for readability; speaker labels omitted.

You're listening to the Sage Hill podcast with Dr. Chip Dodd. Sage Hill is a social impact organization that helps people see who they are made to be so they can do what they're made to do. The following podcast was recorded at this year's Sage Hill training, an in-depth experiential training that helps people bring their heart to what they are called to do. To learn more, you can visit sagehilltraining.com. We long for home. We long for safety. We long for peace. Where it's not just okay for me, it's okay for you. It's just it's just all okay. And there's not a whole lot to say about that, except it's not here. But yet, you know what? You and I need to work towards it because it's a longing within us to have it. Just because not here doesn't mean you're not made to build it, made to construct it, made to shape it for our time and for such a time as this. Do you get that? Ain't that cool? For our time and for such a time as this, we're made to shape it. A peaceful home, to be a peaceful person, to be a person who can, like, really hear another person without having to run away, that you can show up in the process even when things are extraordinarily potentially difficult, and ask them about them being human too. There's nothing more attractive for somebody looking for life than to know that the person looking for life is talking to a human, who doesn't have the answer to it, but, is willing and and able to live in it. It's amazing. Unless you're looking for the answer. And if you are human, you are a failure who doesn't have the answer. If you are being yourself, truly being yourself, and you are rejected, you aren't rejected. They are self rejecting and you frighten them. That's how come so many parents tell their kids to put the spiritual root system back in the box because you bringing that out here is threatening. And you're gonna get hurt doing that, so we're gonna shut it all down, and we're gonna start this Christmas. You better watch out. You better See, you see, you better not pout. You better not cry. I'm telling you why. I'm gonna explain life to you so that you you grow up and live out of your frontal lobe, and your frontal lobe is always telling you what to watch out for so that you won't don't wind up being Mark. Well, Mark, your job is to be Mark. No. My job is to not be Mark. And by not being Mark, I'll be better off. I need to do what I should do instead of listening to what I'm made to do. Yeah. That's the ticket. That's the way to go. That way, number 8741, you come up here and get your diploma. You're ready to go. You got no identity. Somebody else will give you yours, and you will be ruled by someone. And they will tell you how to feed the corporation. Now, what I mean by the corporation, the word corporation, I'm not against capitalism. I'm saying corporation comes from the word corpus. It means body. It's a dead body. A corpus is a dead body. Corporation comes from the word dead body. It has to feed off of the hearts and minds of something alive to survive. And if the corporation winds up owning the person, then you're feeding Frankenstein, keeping Frankenstein alive. And I'm not against big operations. Thank God for them. But you gotta remember, they're there. You're giving yourself to them and they need to be awake to appreciating you because without you, they're dead. Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. So we long for peace, which is simply put a place where everything's okay. Now by okay, I want you to mean I I want you to know that in the true fulfillment of longings term, okay means that it's all versus the world terms of things being okay. There are two different okays. There's the, I'm finally home okay, I'm finally safe okay, I'm finally at peace okay. And there's the peace on earth that's okay. And this is what okay is on earth. It's acceptance. Acceptance. To live in acceptance. To live in acceptance. Remember to live home on earth is to continue to pursue that which stays. You build it, you make it. You provide sanctuary, a place for people to come to and say, God, there's more to life than just reality. There's like something speaking, something beautiful here. That's what feng shui is. Right? Like you're presenting something that's like more, and it's almost like you can't see. So I'm saying, you can live home here, but you can't have it. You can live safe, you can create safety here, but you can't have it. And you can create peace here, but you can't have it. Now I know there's a peace that passes understanding, but this is kind of the closest to it I think we might can get. It's acceptance. Acceptance means it's not okay. Life is tragic. That's not okay, guys. It's never gonna be okay. It's never gonna be okay that life is tragic, except later on. But still, I'm not at later on. Your eight year old child dies, and you're 32, and you got a lifetime to live from the the the days you were with that child from 24 to 32, and you live till you're 85, well, that's, fifty three years of grief. And in some of those years, you you have to face feeling terrible because you forgot the child that day, or that week, or that month, or that year. You see, guys, it's not okay. And it's okay. And it's okay is not okay. So I want you to know it's four times. It's not okay and that's okay, and it's not okay that it's okay and that's okay. In other words, like in, like like a great grief, you just keep living until you're able to live again. You just keep living until you wanna live again. Alright? So it's not okay, and that's okay. And it's not okay because it's okay. And that's okay. That's what acceptance is.

That's the closest to peace you and I are gonna get. This is Stephen James, the executive director of Sage Hill Counseling. Thanks for listening to the Sage Hill podcast with Dr. Chip Dodd. If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, anxiety, depression, or burnout, please reach out to the Center for Professional Excellence for help. For more than twenty years, CBE's long term residential treatment programs have been helping professional men recover their lives, marriages, and families. To find out more, visit cpenashville.com. Further, if you're a therapist, a pastor, or a professional that works with people, and you'd like to be better equipped to help them live fully, we invite you to learn more about Sage Hill Training, an in-depth experiential training to help you bring your heart to the work you're called to do. You can visit Sage Hill Training to register.