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LTMP Episode 13: Riffing On Mystery

LTMP Episode 13: Riffing On Mystery

This is a super short episode where we’re riffing on the beauty that unfolds with uncertainty, mystery, and Divinity.

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Enjoy.



Unnamed poem read and written by Ashton Gustafson

Sometimes it takes a billion stars to get the point across.

They shine the way, call our names, and beg us to come on.

There will be uncertainty on the way to Eternity.

But I believe that up His sleeve Divinity holds beauty.

Sometimes our songs can right our wrongs and say what words can’t say.

When our melodies make jubilee that’s the story of our days.

There will be uncertainty on the way to Eternity.

But when poetry lacks symmetry that’s where you’ll find its beauty.

Sometime it takes a billion storms for God to fill the seas.

Could the same be true for the me and you we call Humanity?

There will be uncertainty on the way to Eternity.

But I believe that up His sleeve Divinity holds beauty.

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Q & A

In the end, our greatest questions will end up being our greatest answers that we will live and light up our worlds with.

Ask the right ones.

Seek what’s beautiful.

Knock on the door of mystery.

It will be given.

You will find.

Doors will open.

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LTMP Podcast Episode 11: An Autumn Waltz

#12An Autumn waltz

It’s been a while and it’s good to be back!

In this episode we talk about the beauty and the metaphors that can be found in the season of Autumn that is upon us.

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Find out more about the band, The War On Drugs, on this episode by clicking here. You can also purchase their record, Lost in the Dream, by clicking here in iTunes. Spotify users can find them by clicking here. Please support the artists you love…their work helps us make sense of it all!


Lastly, we discuss three great books in this episode. They can all be found below in the Amazon Store.

Falling Upward – Richard Rohr.

Rising Strong – Brene Brown.

Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better – Pema Chodron.


Autumn – By Ashton Gustafson

Ego of the trees burning away,

green to gold to bourbon fade.

Night stays long – the candle’s friend,

a majestic unwind curls spring’s next grin.

So now we may waltz with what sheds in the fall

for there’s no other way to rise through it all.

Grounded  in love and making room for the bloom,

Autumn, the first verse of what’s ‘to be continued’.

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Alan Watts on Music and An Eternal Now

“You will simply become completely absorbed in sound, and therefore you will find yourself living in an eternal now, in which there is no past, and there is no future, it all becomes one, doing one happening.

When we make music, we do it to improve your mind, to improve your character and brings us into a state of peace where we can understand that the point of life is simply here and now. The journey itself is the point, the playing itself is the point.” Alan Watts

I have nothing to add to this. 

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Why so fast?

Time, actually, is the rhythm of all things.

Alchemy is the waltz of all things.

Beauty is the melody of all things.

Whiskey, wine, nature, and Love have been trying to get our attention for centuries, but we’ve been too fast with them as well.

So may you sip your moments in time.

May you sip the alchemy of your days.

May you sip the rain.

May you sip the sun.

Only then can the soul stand centered to say cheers to and through the beauty of it all.

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