October 4 – Addition by Subtraction

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Oct 4, 2026 · 12m · transcript

Steffani builds the episode around her own apple tree, three years in the ground, lush and green but bearing no fruit until she learned that pruning away healthy-looking growth was the only way to get there. John 15's true vine passage sits right alongside it, every branch that bears fruit still gets cut back so it can bear more. She ties it to her own early days in the rooms, uncomfortable with a God of her understanding, uncomfortable making a list of everyone she'd harmed, uncomfortable sitting down to actually say it out loud to another person.

MacKenzie brings a recent example of her…