Who’s stopping you? From doing what you want to do, believing what you want to believe, praying how you want to pray, feeling how you want to feel about a thing, or making a choice you want to make…who’s stopping you really? In this season finale episode, Cynthia and Susan revisit the theme of personal spiritual empowerment, share wisdom from listeners, and add a P.S. to their conversations from Season 4.

Notes & Quotes:
Stop Asking for Permission, by Stephen Warley, Life Skills that Matter
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, by Barbara Brown Taylor

“The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It’s like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.” — Chrissie Hynde

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” — Navajo Proverb

“Where there is true equality, resentment does not exist” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I am far more interested in how people live than what they believe. When other Christians threaten or disappoint me, I work hard to see God in them as in people of other faiths (or no) faith. It helps me to remember that these are often the same Christians who I threaten and disappoint in equal measure. The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor…… Jesus never commanded me to love my religion.” — Barbara Brown Taylor

“I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.” —Rainer Maria Rilke

“I believe in being on the journey. I think we’re meant to live our way to the big important truths, and therefore to God. Studying is good, praying is good, going to church is good, believing is good, but it’s in feeling our way imperfectly along an individual path—asking our questions as we go, seeking and gathering light where we can find it, practicing flawed human love—that we grow a kind of living faith and hope that can sustain us.” — Susan’s 1st Article of Faith