Who am I when I’m free and why does it even matter? This is the question that has spurred me on for years now. If you’ve ever wondered why there is a gap between who you are and who you were meant to be, join me on the journey.
A Holy Week Reflection
Today, we use the practice of Lectio Divina to reflect on Jesus’ words in the Upper Room during the Last Supper with his disciples. Listen in.
Links and Resources from this episode:
John 13:1-11 (NIV)
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Episode 39: Nothing to Prove
In just a few weeks from the recording of this podcast, I will be graduating with my spiritual direction certification from Sioux Falls Seminary. This feels like a pivotal moment as I consider what is next in my journey of calling. In this episode, I share a question that I have learned to ask of myself that assures me that I am safe to take the next step. It has helped me release the fear of getting it wrong and might help you to do the same.
I also invite you into the practice of Lectio Divina with me around the passage of Peter and Jesus walking on water. Listen in.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle
Matthew 14:25-33 (NIV)
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Episode 38: Like a Road to Meet Me with Tamara Murphy (Part 2)
“One of the foundational spiritual practices for callings is discernment. And discernment at the root is learning how to listen – to God and listen to our own selves and listen to others.” – Tamara Murphy
On this episode, I conclude my conversation with my sister Tamara, a spiritual director. We explore the roadblocks to calling that she has experienced and the ways she has learned to overcome. And we discuss how she helps others to make space to listen to God’s voice on their own journey of calling. It has been a joy to welcome my sister to the Me: When I’m Free table. Listen in.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Find Tamara on Instagram
The Call that Rose Up Like a Road to Meet Me
Episode 36: Do What You Are
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Episode 37: Like a Road to Meet Me with Tamara Murphy (Part 1)
Today we celebrate the one year birthday of the Me: When I’m Free podcast! It’s my joy on this special day to welcome my first interviewee: my sister, Tamara Murphy. Tamara is a spiritual director, mom of 4 and the wife of Brian, an Anglican priest. She offers hard-earned insight on calling, shares the story of the winding pathway to her own calling, and we also have fun unpacking each other’s super powers. Listen in!
Links and Resources from this episode:
Find Tamara on Instagram
The Call that Rose Up Like a Road to Meet Me
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Episode 36: Do What You Are
“Instead of “You are what you do,” calling says: “Do what you are,” writes Os Guinness in his book The Call. The challenge then becomes defining who we are. This episode is about the ways we need others to help us to do that by calling out our goodness and beauty. Listen in.
Links and Resources from this episode:
The Call by Os Guinness
Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You by Dr. Jim Wilder
The Soul of Shame by Curt Thompson
Psalm 139:1-6 (The Message)
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Episode 35: Unseen
What messages have you received about what God sees when He looks at you? If you are like me, the messages I received in my childhood and beyond about God’s view of me formed me in ways I could not understand. It wasn’t until I began to grapple with all the ways I had tried to be seen, while still feeling deeply unseen, that I discovered that seeing myself through God’s eyes changes everything.
Links and Resources from this episode:
The Soul of Desire by Curt Thompson
The Gift of Being Yourself by David Benner
The Call by Os Guinness
Psalm 139:13-22 (The Message)
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Episode 34: The Soil of Brokenness
Why are there so many obstacles to calling? What if the reason lies in the fact that calling is actually about God healing our brokenness? And what if our brokenness is the soil in which the most beautiful of callings can grow? Listen in.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero
Matthew 13:31, 32 (NIV)
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Episode 33: Live the questions
Most of us are looking for answers when it comes to calling, but what if we lived the questions instead? What if we allowed ourselves to be known, to ask and answer questions, to let others speak into our lives, to love the questions that lead us to uncover who we are? Listen in.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Life Together in Christ by Ruth Haley Barton
Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Matthew 20:32-34 (MSG)
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Episode 32: When Way Closes
When questions around calling or other types of discernment arise, the Quakers have a saying. “Way will open,” they say. But what happens when way does not indeed open? What do we do when way actually closes, leaving us disappointed and questioning our calling and our longings? In this episode, I share a story about a moment when way opened suddenly and then closed just as abruptly and how I can now see the good gifts in the disappointment. Listen in.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
The Call by Os Guinness
Proverbs 3:5, 6 (MSG)
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Episode 31: Your Need is a Catalyst
While we would never choose seasons of need and difficulty, they can be a catalyst for calling in the most beautiful of ways. It is in these seasons, our Creator invites us to co-write our story with Him, if we are willing to take the risk.
Links and Resources from this episode:
The Republic by Plato
Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle
Invitation to Solitude and Silence by Ruth Haley Barton
Psalm 109:31 (NIV)
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