When we let our children lead, we’re not giving up our role as caregivers or guides. We’re simply making room to discover that God may have something to teach us through them. A Place of Grace pastor, Julie Gvillo, has decades of experience with children and youth in the church. Click play to discover ways to let your child lead this week!

Spiritual practices aren’t about raising better Christians or teaching children every Bible story. Spiritual practices are about noticing God. In thirty seconds or five minutes, here and there throughout your day, busy families can find time to notice God’s presence. A Place of Grace Pastor, Julie Gvillo, has decades of experience helping children and families do that very thing. Today’s episode will help you do it too!

Today’s practice episode is an experience of divine seeing. How is God speaking to you through the artwork around you? Listen for a a guided reflection!

“But I am not an artist!”

“What if that wasn’t a requirement to talk with and listen for God?”

Hands-on activities can help kinesthetic learners listen. In this episode, A Place of Grace Pastor and kinesthetic learner, Julie Gvillo, talks about what can happen when our hands are busy creating. Come and see!

Get to know Gary Conrad, Von Dell Gallery & Studios owner and artist in a light-hearted conversation with A Place of Grace Pastor Julie Gvillo, and learn about why the gallery is the perfect location for this ministry right now.

Blessing your child as you tuck them in at night is a beautiful way to end any day — even the most challenging. Today’s companion episode is a short blessing you can use tonight!

Noticing God’s presence and paying attention to it in your everyday living is as simple as blessing your child as you put them to bed or asking for and giving forgiveness. Pastor Julie has more than twenty years experience ministering to families of children and youth. Listen to today’s podcast for more spiritual practices you can easily weave into your day.

Scripture references come from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.

St. Augustine’s practice of personalizing scripture helps us to hear God speaking directly to us through it. In this episode, we engage Augustinian Transposition with Psalm 23, and hear these words anew as God speaks to us of comfort and provision.

Psalm 23 is shared from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

Engaging scripture for formation vs information is a different kind of approach. Pastor Julie talks about ways to sit with scripture and how that is incorporated into A Place of Grace retreats.

Scripture references come from the New Revised Standard Version, as remembered from years of training.

The Romans 8:38-39 song was taught by John Paul Jones at the 1984 Presbyterian Youth Triennium.

Take a few moments to be attentive to God and to someone for whom you wish to pray today, guided by Pastor Julie Gvillo, Reiki Master Practitioner and Teacher.