Convos With Jesus

Welcome to Convos with Jesus—a sacred space to slow down, catch your breath, and listen to the voice that’s always called you Beloved.

I’m Shayani Ann Turko: a daughter, wife, mother, artist, and friend.
This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a real conversation with Jesus.

In this trailer, I invite you into a season of Presence. Not a religious performance, but peace. The kind of peace that doesn’t disappear when life gets loud. The kind that shows up in the mess and says, “I’m still here. I’m still your peace.”

Some episodes are just me and Jesus. Others are open spaces—for those who long to rest in the voice that names them, Beloved.

This is Convos with Jesus—a podcast of compassionate, honest, life-giving Presence.
And there’s room here for you.

Jesus is continuing our previous convo "Why must I Fight Gain, Jesus?" with a new focus in this episode.

There is a clear call from Him to those of us who have been wandering in the wilderness of deconstruction, disillusionment, and loss in the last few years.

Come back to Me. . .

As I stand in the transitional place between the borders of my wilderness and the borders of my promised land, Jesus is calling me back gently into the good fight and teaching me how to engage in the process of restoration, reconstruction, and redemption.

Jesus is calling my disillusioned, disconnected heart back into the fold, reminding me why I need to re-engage in the fight of faith again.

In this convo, "Why must I fight again, Jesus?", Jesus gives me TWO compelling reasons that galvanized me into my calling again.

If you are in disconnected and disillusioned in your faith walk by Christians, Christianity, or past church experience, this short recording might encourage you.

I felt His deep compassion for the disillusioned as I recorded this podcast. He really hears us, even the pain that caused us to leave the fold.

And moved by compassion, He is leaving the 99 for one who was left behind.

Much peace & healing to you as you listen in.

- Jcsaf

“You need to speak this coming year.” Jesus said.

“I don’t have anything uplifting to say. I am grieving, hurting, healing. I don’t have anything inspiring to share.” I said.

“Then share that.

Let them know that I am right there with them, in the mess of it all.” He whispered quietly.

And I said yes, in spite of the fear and trepidation.

Jumping right in - just as I am - the first episode of Season 2 of my podcast, This Beautiful Life.

Where does Jesus stand on grief? Let His own actions and words speak for themselves. 

Sitting Shiva is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. Its primary purpose is to provide a time for spiritual and emotional healing, where mourners join together. Grief and lamentation are an essential part of our spiritual journey with Jesus, where Emmanuel sits with us through our sorrow, and our pain and becomes to us Comforter, Healer. - Rapha  Navigating pain is precious to Jesus. He is tender with the broken reeds and can be trusted not to bruise that are already vulnerable and hurting.  Learning to sit with Jesus in our sorrow is a life-transforming experience that results in having an intimate relationship with God. 

"Grief and Glory" is gonna explore His heart, his true heart because grief and glory are two sides of his multifaceted, loving heart.

I don't accept donations. If this episode blesses you, and you want to support me, think of me for your next art and décor needs. You can visit my online studio - Dreams in-between Spaces Art Studio and support the work of my hands.

peace to you in Jesus,

Shayani

Welcome to the Intro episode of the Series called "Grief & Glory". 

Did you know that God can both carry joy and sorrow, both simultaneously, and do so wholeheartedly and healthily? 

Maybe, in our assertions as believers - that we want to go where God is going, be led by the Spirit etc. . .- we need to seek Him in both these things while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus? 

Here's a Selah moment - a pause and reflect moment - from this episode: The promise of Isaiah 61, the very passage that Jesus read out loud in his hometown synagogue at the beginning of his ministry, is a promise that contains an exchange. God is ready to give us joy, health, and freedom in exchange for something from us. 

And the word of God and Jesus say it loud and clear right in this passage that what Jesus came looking for from us is NOT PRAISE. IT'S NOT HOLINESS. 

Incarnate God doesn't want our praise. He is already enthroned in the praises of innumerable beings. No. The Father came and is coming and looking for someone to love. Someone to carry, Someone to give something to. 

"Grief and Glory" is gonna explore His heart, his true heart because grief and glory are two sides of his multifaceted, loving heart. 

I don't accept donations. If this episode blesses you, and you want to support me, think of me for your next art and décor needs. You can visit my online studio - Dreams in-between Spaces Art Studio and support the work of my hands. 

peace to you in Jesus, 

Shayani 

Hello there! Today, the need to constantly flow in the grace of God so freely available for me as a mom of two small children really grounds me. Especially when the precious Holy Spirit puts this humbling insight in my heart: "Shayani, you realize that as a mom, you are only as old as your oldest child, right?"

Wow! That's how kind He is to me. To us. His angle is always, always full of kindness. 

And that is the place from which I am sharing this episode with you today - Am I enough for you Beloved? Please ground yourself, with me, in the Presence as we start this episode. And may you be superabundantly blessed by the grace and kindness of the Father! 

Thank you for your time, 

sincerely, 

Shayani 

PS: I don't ask for donations. But if you want to support me, please remember me for your next artwork and craft needs. I put my work up in my virtual studio here: Dreams in-between Spaces Art Studio 

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This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD. “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the LORD Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”