210: A Story Big Enough to Live In – Become Good Soil Foundations Series (Part 5)

“It is a world of magic and mystery of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, and where a great struggle often makes it hard to be sure who belongs to which side, because appearances are endlessly deceptive. Yet for all its confusion and wildness it is a world where the battle goes ultimately to the good who live happily ever after and where in the long run everybody, good and evil alike, become known by their true name. That is the fairytale of the gospel.” —Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: the Gospel as Comedy, Tragedy, and Fairy Tale

Friends,

What happens in you when you hear the word desire?

Is there a kind of quickening—something like curiosity?

Or a hesitation… a guardedness?

Maybe a quiet opening that feels like hope.

Or a heaviness in your chest that carries sadness.

Or even a flash of cynicism.

What have you come to believe about desire…

in your life with the Triune God,

in His Kingdom,

in your apprenticeship to Jesus?

And what if the recovery—the honoring and stewarding of desire in its purest form—is actually central to your restoration as an image-bearer of God?

In this next episode of the Become Good Soil Foundations Series, we explore the recovery of longing and desire. Because at the heart of the Christian story is an arresting claim: that desire, in its essence, is not something to fear—but something given by God, meant to lead us to Him and into His Kingdom.

It was the awakening of desire—those fleeting, radiant moments—that first beckoned C. S. Lewis. He described this awakening as joy. And that joy stirred something in him, calling him to search for more.

And the same is true for us.

Our longing is not a liability. It is part of the way back to joy. Everything we love—every glimpse of beauty, goodness, and delight—is from God, is for God, and ultimately finds its home in Him.

The story of the kingdom is a story of desire being gathered up and restored—a great homecoming.

Let’s press forward together.

It's all been prologue. The best is yet to come.

For the Kingdom,

Morgan & Cherie