PerfectWhelm with Eric Slivoskey: The Podcast That Helps Enhance Your Life
Welcome to PerfectWhelm—the podcast that helps you navigate the sweet spot between stagnation and burnout, so you can thrive without the overwhelm.
Hosted by Eric Slivoskey, PerfectWhelm is for change seekers—people who are ready to upgrade their personal and professional lives but feel stuck in cycles of stress, self-doubt, or uncertainty.
If you're looking for more clarity, confidence, and momentum in areas like physical and mental health, relationships, career, and spiritual growth, this podcast is for you.
Each episode is built around the 4 I’s:
Information – Insight into what’s holding you back and empowering ideas that ignite that spark for better self-awareness.
Instruction – Practical tools, strategies, and mindset shifts for real progress.
Inspiration – Shared real life experiences and personal stories of resilience, success, and transformation that show us what is possible.
Implementation – Actionable steps to help you apply what you’ve learned, including tips on how and where to get started.
We’ll dive deep into topics like core values, self-limiting beliefs, goal setting, resilience, and personal strengths, helping you build a life that’s both fulfilling and sustainable—right in that PerfectWhelm zone!
It’s time to stop feeling stuck and start making meaningful progress. Tune in and join us on this remarkable journey.
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PerfectWhelm with Eric Slivoskey: The Podcast That Helps Enhance Your Life
38. My Letter of Lament To A God Who Is Divinely Hidden and Remarkably Silent
If there ever was an episode where I put awkward honesty and uncomfortable truths out front, this is it! In this solo episode, I have a very honest and vulnerable conversation with God as I reflect on some very raw thoughts, feelings, and reflections related to recent tragedies involving young Christ followers. More specifically, this podcast is my personal letter of mourning and lament concerning the kids who died in the central Texas floods and the children who were both injured and killed in the school/church shooting at the Catholic school in Minnesota.
I explore the ideas of sorrow, mourning, and grief, and I lament the fact that Yahweh is so often invisible when we need God the most. The silence, divine hiddenness, and broken promises of the Christian Biblical God are tough realities to reconcile with a deity who is so often said to be trustworthy, faithful, and deserving of our worship and praise. He is characterized as being “good all the time” by his followers. Is this god always good? Is this god always loving? Is this god always just?
The evidence and the Biblical texts and the history and clear accounts of what this God repeatedly commands, condones, and commits is most often anything but loving, forgiving, merciful, compassionate, or just. On the contrary, he consistently plays favorites and shows himself to be harsh, cruel, petty, vengeful, jealous, misogynistic, and violent.
This reflective episode is deeply personal, and I’m sure it will be very upsetting for some listeners. I don’t hold back here. I bring a heavy dose of questions, doubts, scars, anger, curiosity, and sorrow to the table. I am lamenting to a deity who so often seems to be distracted, distant, and indifferent. I decided to ask him why and how he can be so callous, aloof, and asleep at the wheel… especially when his kids are in peril and praying/pleading for his love and protection.
I don’t want to give too much of this episode away. If you are interested in matters of faith, I encourage you to give it a listen.
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