{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"2401 SPECIAL PODCAST John Mark Comer Interview","description":" Topics: John Mark Comer joins Brant Hansen for a conversation about quiet, solitude, and what happens when we step away from the constant noise of modern life. Comer shares what he learned during a 21-day silent retreat and explores how distraction can keep us from facing pain beneath the surface.    Quotes: \u201cIt\u2019s the things that we refuse to face in our inner life that actually come to have the most power and wreak the most havoc in our lives.\u201d  \u201cWe live in the first time in human history where it is possible to go through your entire life and never actually be alone.\u201d  \u201cWhat we\u2019re really searching for is not just an escape from the noise, but is an encounter with God.\u201d  \u201cIf your mind wanders a thousand times during prayer, that\u2019s a thousand chances to come back to God.\u201d  \u201cThe desert teaches through subtraction.\u201d  \u201cYou go into the quietest place on earth, and what you expect to hear is the sound of silence, but it\u2019s not silent. What you actually hear is the sound of your own self.\u201d  \u201cWe just offer who we are to God in love and we receive whatever does or does not come from God, and we\u2019re not in control of that.\u201d  ","author_name":"Brant & Sherri Oddcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.branthansen.com","html":"