In this episode, I talk about the very real temptation to fill our lives with busyness and how to break that pattern:

Listen in if you:

• Struggle with busyness and the drive for doing more.
• Want to remember how to balance your life.
• Know caring for your spiritual life is important.
• Need a jumpstart in reviewing the activities in your life.

Here are some links to things mentioned in this Podcast:

1. E-mail me @ [email protected] to hear more about a Listening Prayer class I am teaching next Fall.
2. Kendra Adachi: Lazy Genius Podcast and 'The Lazy Genius Way' book

Be blessed friend!
Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby (Abigail)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

In this episode, I go unscripted (but short;) about these days and keeping it real and vulnerable as I finish the manuscript for my book. It's hard to keep showing up, but if I can, so can you!

Listen in if you:

• wonder if being vulnerable is worth it.
• have a hard time showing up with your whole self.
• desperately want to be free of projecting 'perfect'.
• need to know you're not alone in the 'messy fight'.

I trust you will consider these few minutes time well spent!

Your fellow messy-life journeyer, and friend,

Abigail (Abby)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

In this episode I talk about the wildly messy, chaotic, tumultuous times we live in and how to follow God in them, or, at least, what this looks like for me.

Listen in if you:

• struggle to believe God is truly in control.
• want to be reminded that God is upholding all things.
• are looking for an encouraging few minutes.
• need to remember the truth of God in His Word.

Trust you will be blessed!

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby
http://www.abigailalleman.com

In this episode, I share my word for 2021. This is my eleventh year picking a word for the year. It has been a truly valuable practice and one I would encourage you to consider, if you don't already do this. 

Listen in if you:

• want to learn a little more about the practice of choosing a word for the year.
• wonder how this is a significant thing.
• are looking to be challenged in your spiritual journey.
• already have a word, and enjoy hearing what others' words are.

I hope, trust and pray your 2021 is filled with the peace and presence of God.

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby
http://www.abigailalleman.com

As 2020 comes to an end, we may say 'good riddance' but there is still much to process and reflect upon of where we have put our energy and found our hope. This podcast is a meditation on what comes after the purposeful waiting of Christmas and how do we sit with all that did and didn't happen this year.

Listen in if you:

• have many thoughts about 2020 and wonder how to process them.
• are looking for a fresh way to view the post-Christmas let down.
• wonder at the waiting that continues even after we celebrate Christ's birth.
• have ever doubted that there is hope after Christmastime.
• want to have a fresh perspective going into the New Year.

With love this post-Christmas, pre-New Year and always,

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby :-)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

In this episode, I talk about the fourth and final Advent theme, that of LOVE. It's a sweet look at how the Baby we celebrate this time of year represents the most inscrutable and gorgeous forms of love.

Listen in if you:

• Need the softness and surety of God's love
• Struggle to understand how a baby can represent God's love
• Are looking for a way to still, ponder and receive this Advent
• Wonder at the Love of God and want to wonder again

May you truly have a blessed Christmas Season and the love held in the wooden manger come to make the love found on a wooden cross all the greater.

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby
http://www.abigailalleman.com

In this episode, I share Joy as seen through a mother and father, Zechariah and Elizabeth, who longed for a child and were finally, in their old age, given one by God.  Theirs was a pure joy about the one who would lead many home to God. As I look at them, I talk about moving beyond, even their joy to the deepest joy we can ever know.

Listen in if you:

• need a fresh reminder of what 'true joy' is all about
• have been waiting so long, and are doubting joy will come
• want to enter this Advent season in a thoughtful way
• long for the coming fulfillment of a new heaven and a new earth

Trust these minutes will bless you richly!

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby 
http://www.abigailalleman.com

As we walk through Advent, this is the second in a four part series I am sharing with the themes of each week. This week is Peace. In this episode, we look at true peace, how it feels impossible, but is incredibly, made beautifully possible.

Listen in, if you:

• Are looking for thoughtful ways to experience Advent.
• Are struggling to know peace in these days.
• Have doubted true peace is real.
• Want to remember what it is that Jesus has brought peace.

Here is the link to the song 'Who Would Have Dreamed' the song which I share the lyrics of...

Your fellow messy-life journeyer, and friend,

Abby
http://www.abigailalleman.com

Today I begin a four part series called 'Messy Advent' where I will share meditations on the themes of each advent week. This week we talk about the prophets and how to hope.

Listen in if you:

• have ever struggled for hope.
• are looking for a way to enter advent.
• wonder about the history of our hope.
• want to know what Advent is about.
• are looking to refresh your hope.

I trust this series will bless you. Listen in again, next week, as we look at 'faith.'

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby
http://www.abigailalleman.com

Today I go on a journey of what Thanksgiving (the day) and Thanksgiving (the act of worship) have looked like for me over the years.

Listen in if you:

• want to remember your Thanksgiving Day's of old
• have ever longed to belong
• have had to give the hard thanks
• want to remember in these strange days what matters most
• desire to know in the pain of grief over lost loved ones, you are not alone

May this episode bless you and you have a rich and full day of thanks this week!

All the best, Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby
http://www.abigailalleman.com