Abiding Together

In this episode we talk about prayer as an encounter with Love, a conversational relationship with God. We talk about different ways to pray and connect with the heart of God, what to do in seasons of dryness, and cultivating the discipline of prayer in your schedule.

One Thing We Love This Week:

• Heather's One Thing - Deliverance Prayers: For use by the Laity
• Michelle's One Thing - College Football - GO NOTRE DAME!
• Sr. Miriam's One Thing -Hope - God is good, he will fulfill His promises

Group Questions

1. Do you have a prayer time scheduled into your day or rhythm of prayer?
2. What form of prayer connects you to God most easily?
3. What commitment are you willing to make to grow in your prayer life?

Journaling Questions

1. What do you think God is speaking to you about in your prayer time?
2. When do I relate to God as a fairy Godmother rather than a loving Father who desires my heart?

Quote to Ponder

"You, eternal Trinity, are a deep sea. The more I enter you, the more I discover, and the more I discover, the more I seek you." St Catherine of Siena ​

In this episode we talk about prayer as an encounter with Love, a conversational relationship with God. We talk about different ways to pray and connect with the heart of God, what to do in seasons of dryness, and cultivating the discipline of prayer in your schedule.

In this episode we have a special guest and dear friend Lisa Brenninkmeyer! She is the founder of Walking With Purpose, a Catholic women's Bible study that aims to bring women to a deeper personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We chat about how she seeks to abide with Christ in the midst of balancing busy family life and work and how to abide with others in community.

Walking with Purpose bible studies WalkingWithPurpose.com

Download this beautiful Abide in Me printable scripture verse.

Check out this video about Walking With Purpose

One Thing We Love This Week:

• Lisa Brenninkmeyer One Thing - "The Life of the Beloved" by Henri Nouwan
• Michelle Benzinger's One Thing - Celebrating Life
• Heather Khym's One Thing - Good old fashioned pranks with friends
• Sr. Miriam's One Thing - - Her new coffee mug

Discussion Questions

1. What does "abide" mean to you personally?
2. What are some of your obstacles when it comes to abiding in Christ?
3. How do you journey with others (especially other women) in your spiritual walk?

Journal Questions

1. In what situations do you find yourself striving instead of Abiding?
2. What commitment can you make today to intentionally abide more deeply in Christ?

Quote to ponder

"if you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask for whatever you wish and it shall be done for you." John 15:7

In this episode we have a special guest and dear friend Lisa Brenninkmeyer! She is the founder of Walking With Purpose, a Catholic women’s Bible study that aims to bring women to a deeper personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We chat about how she seeks to abide with Christ in the midst of balancing busy family life and work and how to abide with others in community.

In this episode we talk about advice and words of truth we wish we could give to our young adult selves. We speak about places of identity, calling, that your vocation is not the finish line, and the importance of allowing people with wisdom to speak into your life.

One Thing We Love This Week:

• Heather Khym's One Thing - Brene Brown
• Michelle Benzinger's One Thing - Blessed is She Advent Journal
• Sr. Miriam's One Thing - Yeti Cup

Group Questions

1. What advice would you give to your younger self or to yourself right now?
2. How can you incormporate one thing talked about in the podcast into your life?
3. Who are the people you rely on to speak wisdom and truth into your life?

Journaling Questions

1. How can I grow in self awareness?
2. Where do I often try to find my identity other than God? Work? Attention from others? Vocation? Labels?

Quote to Ponder "Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire" - St Catherine of Sienna

In this episode we talk about advice and words of truth we wish we could give to our young adult selves. We speak about places of identity, calling, that your vocation is not the finish line, and the importance of allowing people with wisdom to speak into your life.

In this episode we talk about the quote "Beauty will Save the World" by Dostoevsky. We discuss how true beauty leads you outside of yourself to humanity and to the Divine Creator, whereas the counterfeits lead us away. We address how paying attention to our life allows us to experience epiphanies of beauty.

One Thing We Love This Week:

• Sr. Miriam's One Thing - Don't Believe the Lie, Bill Johnson
• Michelle Benzinger's One Thing - Examen Journal
• Michelle Benzinger's Other One Thing - CreatingToLove.com
• Heather Khym's One Thing - Nurses and doctors who offer care for people in need. You rock!
• Heather Khym's Other One Thing - Bring Him Home by the Canadian Tenors

Group Questions

1. What is one way that you commonly experience the beauty of God?
2. How can we call beauty out in other people?
3. What are the beauty counterfeits that have affected your life in a negative way?

Journaling Questions

1. How can I co-create with the Holy Spirit to bring beauty into the world?
2. What am I consuming in my world? Is it true beauty of not?
3. When and how can I create space/pause to encounter beauty?

Quotes to Ponder "We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it."- CS Lewis

"Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue." ― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

In this episode we talk about the quote "Beauty will Save the World" by Dostoevsky. We discuss how true beauty leads you outside of yourself to humanity and to the Divine Creator, whereas the counterfeits lead us away. We address how paying attention to our life allows us to experience epiphanies of beauty.

In this episode we talk about how breakdown can lead to breakthrough if we allow God to enter into our pain. Join us as we discuss how to grow in deeper intimacy with God and experience healing and restoration.

One Thing We Love This Week:

• Heather's one thing - "No Longer Slaves"
• Michelle's one thing - fall weather and green and white pumpkins
• Sr. Miriam's One Thing - St. Hildegard poem

Holy Life-Giver Doctor of the desperate. Healer of everyone broken past hope, Medicine for all wounds, Fire of love, Joy of Hearts, fragrant Strength sparking Fountain, Protector, Penetrator, in You we contemplate how God goes looking for those who are lost and reconciles those who are at odds with Him Break our chains!

You bring people together. You curl clouds, whirl winds, send rain on rocks, sing in creeks, and turn the lush earth green. You teach those who listen, breathing joy and wisdom into them.

We praise You for these gifts, Light-giver, Sound of joy, Wonder of being alive, Hope of every person, and our strongest Good.

Group Questions

1. What does freedom look like?
2. What comes to mind when you read this scripture, "Let the weak say, "I am a warrior!"
3. Have you ever approached God as if He was more like as if He was more like a fairy godmother than a loving Father?

Journal Questions

1. Where might God "putting His finger" into a wound in your life so that he can bring breakthrough?
2. What is one practical way I can begin the journey from breakdown to breakthrough?

Quote to Ponder

"In my deepest wound I saw Your glory, and it dazzled me" - St. Augustine

In this episode we talk about how breakdown can lead to breakthrough if we allow God to enter into our pain. Join us as we discuss how to grow in deeper intimacy with God and experience healing and restoration.