September 17 – A Greater Freedom

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 13m · transcript

Paris opens on what freedom actually looks like now, and locates it in the daily work rather than in circumstances. His example is page 101 and the question the book tells you to ask before going anywhere: do I have a good social, business, or personal reason for being here. He can sit at his cousin's house around the pot and the tequila with no desire to drink, and that's the freedom. Then he raises the harder case, a friend who used to use and had a breakdown when a doctor came at her with a needle, and asks what freedom from that kind of trauma looks like. Pastor Mike answers plainly that…