What if the thing that keeps getting in the way isn't that you're not trying hard enough, but that you're trying to do it all yourself?

We start with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where Frodo makes it all the way to Mount Doom and still can't let the ring go. The quest is accomplished, but not through the heroism everyone expected. And that raises a pretty uncomfortable question: how often do we do the same thing in our own lives?

We talk about the need to be the hero, the pressure to get our lives together, and what that looks like in marriage, fatherhood, creativity, and our relationship with God. Christopher even shares the words he had inscribed in his wife's engagement ring, and what it has meant to live them.

Maybe our weakness isn't the end of the story. Maybe it's where the real work begins.

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