No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)

Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth.

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

What doesn't kill you, we'll try again tomorrow.

But imagine how strong you'd be if you hadn't been abused.

Failing to love what is present and deciding to love what is possible instead.

So, as I believe you know, I often start my interviews with a question about the spiritual background of a life or a childhood because I find that that is such a soft searching place in us. And it's often a place where a lot of the questions that we end up pursuing for the rest of our lives emerge.

Which Have Touched Millions.

And that spiritual background can be anything. It can be a presence, it can be an absence, but there's something there.

I actually think of Kate Bowler every time I look at the coffee cup in my office that she sent me, which says, No Cure for Being Human, which is the title of another of her books.

There's this. Again today. Lodge. I think one of the things I like most about you and I like lots of things about you. Is the fact that you this whole thing with your daughter really cracked you open to everybody's pain and not just your own.

Right. And like you mentioned in your book, there is no cure for being human.

Her new book in September, 2021 is No Cure for Being Human and Other Truths I Need to Hear.

There's this. Again today. Lodge. I think one of the things I like most about you and I like lots of things about you. Is the fact that you this whole thing with your daughter really cracked you open to everybody's pain and not just your own.

Right. And like you mentioned in your book, there is no cure for being human.

And then her new book which I just finished no cure for being human and other truths I need to hear.