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Our whole mindset has had to\nchange ; our expectations, our plans, our relationships, everything really.","18 avril 2021","08:49","2021-04-18T08:49:27+02:00",{"url":14,"alt":14,"url_carre":14,"alt_carre":14},"",[16],{"id":17,"name":18,"code":19,"shortname":20,"liveURL":21,"alias":22,"region":23,"channelId":26},"34365","RCF Poitou Vienne","RCF86","Poitou Vienne","\u002F\u002Frcf.streamakaci.com\u002Frcf86.mp3","\u002Fpoitou-vienne",{"id":24,"name":25},"34176","Nouvelle-Aquitaine",null,{"id":28,"type":29,"title":8,"published":10,"datetime":30,"description":9,"url_linked_article":5,"presenters":31,"visual":38,"show":41,"duration":47,"radios":48,"audio_file":59,"rolls":60},"17189","episode","2021-04-18T08:45:00+02:00",[32,33,34,35,36,37],"Gavin Brown","Valerie Brown","Anne Chittick","Derek Chittick","Adam Boulter","David Hawken",{"alt":39,"url":40,"url_carre":14,"copyright":14},"RCFPoitou-EG","https:\u002F\u002Fmedia.rcf.fr\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fstyles\u002F{style_name}\u002Fpublic\u002F2023-09\u002FPerspectives_0.png.webp",{"id":42,"title":43,"alias":44,"visual":45,"description":46},"6458","Perspectives - Espace spirituel anglophone","\u002Fvie-spirituelle\u002Fespace-spirituel-anglophone",{"url":40,"alt":39,"url_carre":14,"alt_carre":14},"\u003Cp>Des réflexions spirituelles proposées aux anglophones - sous le titre : Perspectives\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n","600000",[49,51],{"id":17,"name":18,"code":19,"shortname":20,"liveURL":21,"alias":22,"region":50,"channelId":26},{"id":24,"name":25},{"id":52,"name":53,"code":54,"shortname":55,"liveURL":56,"alias":57,"region":58,"channelId":26},"57796","RCF Poitou Deux-Sèvres","RCF79","Poitou Deux-Sèvres","https:\u002F\u002Frcf.streamakaci.com\u002Frcf79.mp3","\u002Fpoitou-deuxsevres",{"id":24,"name":25},"https:\u002F\u002Faudio.audiomeans.fr\u002Fguid\u002F{source_code}\u002F\u002F8c216701554ee21f8e7bfb2e26742931c21acbee0c29d98fdfbc74520a22f1bf.mp3",{"podcast_not_roll":61},false,{"id":63,"type":64,"name":65,"alias":66,"description":67},"2","category","Vie Spirituelle","\u002Fvie-spirituelle","\u003Cp>\r\n\u003Cstyle type=\"text\u002Fcss\">\u003C!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->\r\n\u003C\u002Fstyle>\r\nRedécouvrez les fondamentaux de la foi chrétienne, les grands courants de pensée qui ont traversé l'histoire de l'Église, le sens des fêtes chrétiennes, la vie des saints, ...\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n",[69],{"id":70,"target_paragraph_type":71,"target_wysiwyg":72},"33672","wysiwyg_paragraph","\u003Cp>And how we cope with that\u003Cbr>\ndepends very much on the perspective we take. Frustration and boredom are prevalent. Domestic abuse\u003Cbr>\nhas risen. And TV doesn't help much. The dramas are mostly about murder, sex and violence. Only\u003Cbr>\nGrayson Perry seems to be shining a light in our darkness.And those of us who form part of a community,\u003Cbr>\na family, or a church are deprived of the physical company of our brothers and sisters. We are on our\u003Cbr>\nown.\u003Cbr>\nIt's at moments like this that we have to change our perspective, turn things the other way up, ask\u003Cbr>\nourselves a few questions. So, what do I have to learn through this experience ? This is a chance for me to\u003Cbr>\ndo something. But what ? So we look within, something there's usually no time for, searching in our\u003Cbr>\nhearts and souls for the treasure we may have been missing all these years. We look into our past, we\u003Cbr>\nreassess our present and see not only the paths we have taken but the paths not taken, too. Nobody is\u003Cbr>\nwatching us. We can really take stock. What did we get wrong ? Who have I become ? We are beginning\u003Cbr>\nto restore our contact with our hearts and souls. We see where we went wrong, did wrong, not only\u003Cbr>\nindividually but as a society, the harm we have done to the planet through our own selfishness, and the\u003Cbr>\nperilous situation we are all in. And we feel our helplessness. How can we put things right ?\u003Cbr>\nIt's the moment of truth when we might turn to God in our hearts, admitting our faults, ready to change\u003Cbr>\nand begging for his help. Our link with God is reforged and new growth begins in our souls. The world\u003Cbr>\ncould change. We could change. Humanity working together for the good of the planet, and for one\u003Cbr>\nanother. It's our chance to live again. But will we take that chance, or fall back on our frustration and\u003Cbr>\nanger ?\u003Cbr>\nResurrection comes out of destruction. If we are to rebuild the temple, first it must be destroyed. Our\u003Cbr>\ntemples, our places of worship, retail outlets, car showrooms, night clubs etc etc have to go, leaving our\u003Cbr>\ncity centres empty and barren. It is in our hearts, the love we feel for the other and for the planet we live\u003Cbr>\nin - not on but within - is the fertile soil for regrowth. And God ? God is already in us, He is in creation\u003Cbr>\nitself and we have offended him, brought him suffering, through our selfish short sighted, materialistic,\u003Cbr>\negotistical approach to the great gift of life in this beautiful planet. In the silence, we hear the birds sing –\u003Cbr>\nsome have forgotten how, drowned out by noisy humans. We should stop and isten to them. They are\u003Cbr>\ncloser to God than we are. We need to learn respect for God, for creation, for one another. Now is the\u003Cbr>\ntime, now or never. This is our moment of opportunity. Will we obstinately refuse it ? Or will we be\u003Cbr>\nhonest enough to accept it ? Go down to the tomb with Jesus and rise up again. Only listen for the voice\u003Cbr>\nof God and enter into his peace. God bless all our lockdowns, all our curfews ; and bring us back.\u003Cbr>\nmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n"]