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.
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Episode 21: Your Brain on Joy
“Our brains need fuel to run properly” Michel Hendricks writes in The Other Half of Church. “The fuel that our brains were intended to run on is joy.” But most of us have a default emotion that is not joy and find it easier to get stuck in difficult emotions. The good news, however, is that we can reset our default emotion to joy with practice. In today’s episode, I walk you through an exercise that was meaningful to me to get you started.
Links and Resources from this episode:
The Other Half of Church by Dr. Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks
1,000 Gifts by Ann Voskamp
Romans 15:13
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Episode 20: How to See the Face of God
What would it be like to see the face of God? This question stirred up a sweet encounter one morning that shifted my heart in a surprising and deeply meaningful way. It’s a question that might do the same for you if you allow it.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Discovering our Spiritual Identity by Trevor Hudson
Numbers 6:24-26
Passages for question 2:
John 8:1-11, Luke 10:38-42, Matthew 14:22-23
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Episode 19: How to Re-Center a Spinning Soul
In today’s episode I share the story of a moment last month that left me in tears – partially out of sadness, partially out of shame, but mostly out of a soul that needed to be tended. What happened next reminded me of one of my soul’s most vital needs in these days of distraction.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Discovering our Spiritual Identity by Trevor Hudson
An Invitation to Solitude and Silence by Ruth Haley Barton
1 Kings 19:11-13 (NIV)
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Episode 18: Rhythms of Revolution
If you know me, it’s likely you know about pumpkin chip cookies. They are a family legacy and a lifeline on days filled with unknowns and learning curves, like the first day of school. The process of making them reminds me that the revolutionary life is a series of quiet, ordinary rhythms tethering me to the One who makes me whole.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren
Psalm 23:1-4 (The Message)
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Rhythm 17: How to Change a Heart
It’s the age-old problem – our hearts just don’t want to change, even when we try our best to make them change. A conversation with my son years ago opened my eyes to the depth of this struggle and it’s been a journey of understanding how Jesus can help change my heart ever since.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Renovated by Dr. Jim Wilder
Romans 7:24, 25 (The Message)
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Episode 16: What’s your capacity?
Capacity refers to the maximum amount something can hold. For many of us, our stories and our wounding have decreased our capacity for relationship, for love, for connection, for calling. So how do we change that? It’s possible we don’t know the answer because we have been asking the wrong question, friend. Let’s see what happens when we shift our focus.
Links and Resources from this episode:
The Great Omission by Dallas Willard
Matthew 11:28-30 (The Message)
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Episode 15: If I Were Truly Free
What happens when we fail at living freely – when we do the wrong thing or we find ourselves wrestling with patterns of fear or anxiety? In this episode, I share a moment from a few months ago, when the thought “If I were really free” hung heavy for me, and what is freeing me from this unhelpful way of thinking.
Links and Resources from this episode:
The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
John 8:9-11 (NIV)
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Episode 14: The Stories We Tell Ourselves Part 2
In part 2 of this episode I share more about my journey with wrestling with the stories I told myself as a woman in the church. I began to see that the hurt ran deep, but in a surprising turn of events, God began to write a new story.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Strong and Weak by Andy Crouch
Healing America’s Wounds by John Dawson
Genesis 1:27, 28 (NIV)
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Episode 14: The Stories We Tell Ourselves Part 1
In part 1 of this episode, I dig deeper into the question “What do we need to receive?” and what do we do when what we need to receive simply is not offered to us? Most of us begin to tell ourselves stories to make sense of this gap and the result is a trail of unresolved painful feelings. I begin to share how this played out in my life as a woman in ministry.
Links and Resources from this episode:
Rising Strong by Brene Brown
Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You by Jim Wilder
Isaiah 43:18, 19 (NIV)
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