354: Jacci Turner and Tumbled People

Jacci Turner is an author, spiritual director, trainer of spiritual directors, and a retried trauma therapist. Today, Jacci shares her story of discovering the Lord at camp, serving as a trainer for campus ministers for decades, and how her growing understanding of God’s love changed everything. She lost her position and became an outcast from a community she loved. Jacci shares how she got through that difficult season and how spiritual direction helped her see the way through the spiritual desert. Jacci’s story reminds us that we all get a little tumbled by life but that the Lord makes something beautiful out of us all in the end.

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Stories Jacci shared:

Growing up as a daughter of a produce

Finding Jesus “for the first time” as a child

Praying for Jesus to take away her nightmares

Forgetting her relationship with God as a teenager

Giving her life to Christ as a teenager at camp

Going to college and learning Scripture

Growing in love for the LGBTQ+ community

Leaving her organization by invitation

The pain of becoming an outcast because of her position

The dreams she had during this painful season

Starting a group called Shalom for church wholeness

Experiencing Jesus even through the difficult times

The identities she had to let go in order to get through the spiritual desert

How a spiritual director helped her through her issues with the church

What spiritual direction is and why it is valuable at every stage of the journey

Spiritual cairns in the desert

Great quotes from Jacci:

If I never get to Hollywood, I still want to follow you.

As we got to know them, they didn’t become our gay friends. They became just our friends.

Look to hope. Find hope in people, in God, in the books, in Scripture, in the forest, wherever you can find it.

Resources we mentioned (affiliate links):

Jacci’s website

Tumbled People: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Your Faith by Jacci Turner

The Gravity Center

The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer by Phyllis Tickle

Yes And…Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr

Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World by John Philip Newell

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Phileena Heuertz and Christian Contemplation

Suzanne Stabile and How Enneagram Heals Relationships

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