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A daily podcast each weekday sharing Biblical truth designed to help listeners find hope, meaning and fulfillment in life. Each weekday we air a new episode that features a devotional grounded in our 10-10 principles. Many episodes include original music and dramatizations.© 2020 1010 Thrive -- Home of the 1010 Podcast Arte Espiritualidad
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  • Christmas Day Special: The Innkeeper's Wife (Part 14)
    Dec 25 2025

    In this Christmas special, Leah reflects on the cosmic significance of the events she witnessed in Bethlehem. She recalls Mary’s "Magnificat," a song of praise that defines God’s mission to lift the lowly, scatter the proud, and fulfill the ancient covenants made with Abraham and Sarah. Leah marvels at how the world "dreamed on obliviously" while stars danced and angels sang the Gloria, heralding a night where the boundaries between heaven and earth finally dissolved in a borrowed stable.

    Leah contemplates the profound mystery of "the Word" made flesh, realizing that God chose to reach humanity not through distant decrees, but through a vulnerable child who breathed and slept within her reach. She understands that while words can bless or wound, this specific Word—Jesus—brought an enduring light that the darkness could not overcome. This "incarnation" represents a shift from abstract promises to a tangible presence, where truth and mercy finally meet in a human embrace, offering "grace upon grace" to all who believe.

    The episode culminates in a powerful chorus of worship, identifying Jesus as the face of hope and the name of glory. Leah concludes that her journey from a busy, stressed innkeeper to a witness of the divine has taught her that glory is not a distant, untouchable concept. Instead, it is a Person who entered into human brokenness to heal what was lost. Standing in the lingering light of the stable, she acknowledges that while she didn't always have the words, her heart has found its song: the King has come, and His name is Jesus.

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    17 m
  • Holiday Special: The Innkeeper's Wife (Part 13)
    Dec 24 2025

    The atmosphere of Episode 13 shifts from wonder to urgent desperation as God speaks through dreams to safeguard the child. The three Magi all wake to the same divine warning: do not return to King Herod, whose supposed desire for worship has been revealed as a murderous intent to eliminate a rival. Simultaneously, an angel appears to Joseph in a dream, commanding him to flee to Egypt immediately. Before vanishing into the pre-dawn shadows to take a secret southern route home, the Magi share a final moment with the family, providing them with additional gold to fund their long journey and sustain them in a foreign land.

    Leah is jolted awake by the commotion and finds Mary and Joseph frantically packing their few belongings onto a donkey. Though she is devastated by their sudden departure and terrified of the arduous trek across the wilderness with an infant, Mary consoles her by insisting that their connection is part of a larger, ongoing story. In a poignant farewell, the two women embrace, acknowledging the courage and kindness that transformed a lowly cave into a sanctuary. Leah watches until the darkness swallows the small family, leaving her alone with the weight of the danger they face and the glory they left behind.

    The episode concludes with Leah standing in the now-empty cave, reflecting on how her life has been irrevocably altered. The physical traces of the family—the smell of hay and the impression in the straw—remain, but the tangible presence of the divine has moved on. Leah realizes that while the cave has returned to being mere stone and silence, she herself cannot be "unchanged." Having witnessed the intersection of heaven and earth, she carries the story within her, waiting in hope for the day when the danger has passed and the promise of the child is fully realized.

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    11 m
  • Holiday Special: The Innkeeper's Wife (Part 12)
    Dec 23 2025

    As several weeks pass since the baby’s dedication, Bethlehem returns to its quiet, winter rhythm. Mary and Joseph have settled into a modest life, with Joseph finding work as a carpenter while Leah, the innkeeper’s wife, continues to visit them daily, drawn by the profound sense of peace found in their presence. This domestic calm is suddenly shattered by the arrival of a regal procession of Magi—learned men from the East who have traveled for months following a celestial sign. They reveal that they first visited King Herod in Jerusalem, whose troubled reaction and request to find the child have left Leah and her husband, Simon, deeply uneasy.

    The town watches in awe as the wealthy foreigners bypass palaces to kneel in the dust before a cave. Led by the elderly Ruth, the Magi present symbolic gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, acknowledging the child as both a divine King and a destined sacrifice. During their worship, the atmosphere is charged with a mixture of immense joy and a growing shadow of dread, as the Magi realize that their discovery fulfills ancient prophecies while simultaneously placing the family in the crosshairs of a jealous earthly ruler.

    In the quiet hours of the evening, Leah speaks with the Magus Melchior, who explains that faith is the act of "following the light you have been given." He confesses his growing suspicion that Herod intends to hunt the child rather than worship him, prompting the travelers to seek divine guidance for their return journey. As the episode concludes, Melchior reminds Leah that she is no longer a mere spectator; by offering shelter and bearing witness to these miracles, she has become an inextricable part of a story that is beginning to reshape the world.

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    10 m
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