Caretakers of the Beautiful

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Apr 23, 2024 · 9m

We are all hopelessly temporary.

We had a fixed date when we arrived and we will have another when we depart. We all have a birthday—and we all have zero assurance as to how many more of those we will get.

None of us are getting out of here alive, and we can probably agree on that.

What we are less unanimously united on, is from where we came and to where we’re headed.

Did we spring from the earth itself and will one day return to it, via a purely scientific process born of time and evolution—or are we the intentional work of some divine, superhuman creator, made to transcend the here to the…