the REALIFE Practice Podcast

Sharon Swing, Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley share thoughts on Tomas Merton's prayer from 'Thoughts in Solitude' that are sure to reflect our own sense of being lost at times.

My Lord God,

I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me.

I cannot know for certain where it will end.

nor do I really know myself,

and the fact that I think I am following your will

does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you

does in fact please you.

And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,

though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always though

I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,

and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. Amen

You can find this prayer in this book on Amazon.

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

Please join us for a virtual journey thru 'Listen to My Life' starting September 10, 2019 with Sharon Swing, Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley. Find out more at: https://onelifemaps.lpages.co/september-2019-listen-to-my-life-virtual-workshop-landing-page

Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support

We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?

Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.

Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.

We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

Equipment

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

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Julie Pierce, Director of Leadership Development for Valley Creek Community Church in Dallas, TX shares a piece of her personal journey and how she invests in leaders to live and lead healthy lives.

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

Please join us for a virtual journey thru 'Listen to My Life' starting September 10, 2019 with Sharon Swing, Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley. Find out more at: https://onelifemaps.lpages.co/september-2019-listen-to-my-life-virtual-workshop-landing-page

Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support

We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?

Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.

Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.

We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

Equipment

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sibyl Towner, Sharon Swing and Joan Kelley discuss stages of the spiritual journey, or stages of faith, using the model described in 'The Critical Journey' by by Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

Please join us for a virtual journey thru 'Listen to My Life' starting September 10, 2019 with Sharon Swing, Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley. Find out more at: https://onelifemaps.lpages.co/september-2019-listen-to-my-life-virtual-workshop-landing-page

Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support

We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?

Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.

Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.

We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

Equipment

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sibyl Towner tells her story on how she and her husband, Dick Towner, came to live and work at The Springs of Indiana retreat center.

Learn more about The Springs at www.thespringsindiana.org

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th, 2019

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

Please join us for a virtual journey thru 'Listen to My Life' starting September 10, 2019 with Sharon Swing, Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley. Find out more at: https://onelifemaps.lpages.co/september-2019-listen-to-my-life-virtual-workshop-landing-page

Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support

We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?

Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.

Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.

We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

Equipment

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sharon Swing and Joan Kelley discuss recognizing and responding to God in our stories, which just happens to be the subtitle of the life-mapping materials so many people have benefitted from.

In this episode we mention David Benner's trilogy, Surrender to Love, The Gift of Being Yourself and Desiring God's Will

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th, 2019

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gail Donahue, Joan Kelley and Lori Shoults join Sharon Swing for a conversation of the rhythms Jesus modeled for us in his life - solitude, community and ministry.

On this episode we also mention guided solitude retreats offered by Joan Kelley and Gail Donahue. You can find out more at www.mylifeissacred.com.

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recognizing and responding to God in your days takes practice. How might you go about the process of becoming more self-aware and God aware? In this episode, Sharon Swing and Joan Kelley discuss the 'Reviewing My Days' visual map which is the fifth of eight in the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' portfolio.

In this episode we mention:

Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story by Sibyl Towner & Sharon Swing

The God Hunt by Karen Mains

Letters to Malcolm: Cheifly on Prayer by C.S. Lewis

The Gift of Being Yourself by David Benner

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

*The links to amazon earn us a minuscule commission from them, but cost you nothing.

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Parts of your soul need restoration? God has an invitation for you. Listen in as Gail Donahue and Joan Kelley describe spaces they create to invite people into this life-changing rhythm.

Getting time away with God -- just the two of you -- is a rarity for some of us, and a real gift. Sometimes distractions steal away minutes and hours from our intended time. Or, maybe just the idea of time alone with God is a bit unnerving. Push away the resistance and listen in to see if you might sense an invitation from God to join him in a time where he has your undivided attention. He's got something good for you.

Here's the link to Joan Kelley and Gail Donahue's website, if you'd like to know more about the 'My Life is Sacred' solitude retreats they host in community in the Chicago suburbs, or make available by invitation for staff retreats.

Listen in as Sharon Swing, Joan Kelley, Lori Shoults and Gail Donahue explore solitude retreats in community.

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen in as Sharon Swing, Joan Kelley, Lori Shoults and Gail Donahue discuss how we can sustain hope in troubled times.

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

On this episode we also mention guided solitude retreats offered by Joan Kelley and Gail Donahue. You can find out more at www.mylifeissacred.com.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen in as Sharon Swing, Joan Kelley, Lori Shoults and Gail Donahue talk thru a chapter in Invitations from God: Accepting God's Offer to Rest, Weep, Forgive, Wait, Remember and More" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adelle Calhoun's book, 'Invitations from God.'

Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

On this episode we also mention guided solitude retreats offered by Joan Kelley and Gail Donahue. You can find out more at www.mylifeissacred.com.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:

Recorder

Microphones

Microphone Stands

Headset

Microphone Wind Screens

Headset Extension Cords

Headset Cable Splitter

The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.