Pasture Experience Podcast

In this 13-minute episode, I share my love/hate journey with stillness and how I'm coming to experience God's presence and comfort in the quiet.

For many of us, quiet and stillness is scary. What worth and value do we have or bring to the table when we're still? This is where the magic begins! 

"Show me somebody who knows the beauty and the art of intentionally stilling themselves, and I'll show you someone who is so content in the un-doing, in the listening, in the space that comes, and the stillness, and the way that way that God meets in the quiet." 

In Episode 4, I invited you to experience how to listen to yourself and God first. Now, in this 24-minute episode, join a soul-nourishing chat with Lucy Malone, my spiritual director, as we continue the conversation about listening, spiritual direction, and how every moment is a miracle. 

Lucy shares about how she was drawn into spiritual formation and then spiritual direction, defines "hospitality of the heart," and exhorts us to the value of listening.

"Spiritual Direction is not a guru or even a life coach. Spiritual Direction isn't counseling or therapy. It is a companion, and we're on the journey together and listening to each other, listening to God, listening to the Holy Spirit. And you need help sometimes. People need help seeing what's going on. That listening process, that discerning process is really better when you go to someone and they help you along. They guide you, and that's what a Director does."  - Lucy Malone

"Listening to a heart is one of the most important things you can do. It is a hospitality, a welcoming, a warmth... people need to be heard." - Lucy Malone

Show Notes

Watch Episode 5's conversation on YouTube

If you are longing for spiritual direction and/or a retreat at Poustinia (Russian for "desert place"), email Lucy Malone (Columbia, TN): [email protected]

Daily Examen, a spiritual discipline, invites questions to reflect on at the end of the day:

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Interested in a listening retreat? Attend a Pasture Experience Retreat in Spring Hill, TN:  PastureExperience.com

Humble thanks to:

Bema Meda Production Team

In this 12 + minute podcast, I invite you to listen.

What are you listening to? What do you want to stop listening to? Listening and being heard is a healing gift.

Show Notes:

Read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom:

"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God." - Maya Angelou

Learn more about Pasture Experience:

In this 27-minute episode, I share a soul-nourishing conversation with Come as You Are Cakes founder and owner, Suzanne Roberts, where she shares her story about surrendering expectations, entering into imperfect family dynamics and how God is restoring her soul.

Show Notes:

Follow Suzanne Roberts, Come As You are Cakes

Learn more about Pasture Experience

Connect with me: @BekahJanePogue

Buy Choosing REAL Book

Psalm 23 ESV

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

5 You prepare a table before me

In this 25-minute episode, I invite you to come, however you are. So, how are you? Like, really?

I close by reading Psalm 23 and inviting you to notice where in the pasture you most resonate with today.

Join us next episode as I share a soul-nourishing conversation with Suzanne Roberts, Creator of Come As You Are Cakes.

Show notes:

Buy The Gift of Being Yourself by David Benner

Connect with me: @BekahJanePogue

Psalm 23 ESV

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

5 You prepare a table before me

Hi Friend! Welcome to Episode One of Season One of Pasture Experience Podcast. I'm Bekah Jane Pogue and am so honored to journey with you. This podcast emerged from the retreats I host + facilitate in our near-Nashville, TN home.

This is your invitation to be honest and listen to yourself, know God's voice, and join soul-nourishing conversation's, wherever you are on your Psalm 23-inspired "pasture" journey. A bit like soul care + spiritual direction + a whimsy conversation!

In this 23-minute episode, I'm sharing the story behind how Pasture Experience came to be; how this has evolved from a local meet-up, to gathering at the Spring Hill Antique Mall, to weekend retreats. And now? This podcast, which was given as a gift by Bema Media! It's my humble honor to turn this back around and offer this time to YOU as a gift.

What can you expect here? 100% honesty. This is a safe space to wrestle, ask all the questions, and not feel like we have to have the answers. Just our own personal experiences of how God is meeting us in our current pasture season. Anticipate the initial episode to bring us into listening to ourselves and God. The following episode will be a soul-nourishing conversation with a guest about that very topic. This intentional rhythm will be throughout Season One: listening and then talking, listening and then talking. :) 

I'll close every episode by reading Psalm 23. Notice where you resonate with the pasture. Today. 

Thanks for listening + subscribing. Hoping you feel known and loved here.

Grace & Space,

Bekah

Show Notes:

Listen/watch on YouTube

Learn more about Pasture Experience

Buy Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle

Buy Choosing REAL Book

Buy Choosing REAL Devotional Thought Journal

Humble thanks to:

Bema Meda Production + Team