This Undivided Life

When we slow down for others it often gives us the chance to slow down ourselves. Which is a gift in this fast paced life we often live.

Heather is the author of The Lucky Few and a popular speaker, podcaster and founder of hit instagram account @theluckyfewofficial. She is a wife to her loving and supportive husband, Josh, and adoptive mother to Macyn, Truly, and August. The Lucky Few shares their daily lives through authentic and inspirational media empowering millions to make space for the other and discover the extraordinary by shouting a counter narrative, celebrating the differences, and creating a more inclusive world. Heather and her family live in Southern California.

Philip Yancey is the author of twenty-five books, including The Jesus I Never Knew, What’s So Amazing About Grace?, and Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church. Yancey’s books have garnered thirteen Gold Medallion Book Awards from Christian publishers and booksellers. He currently has more than seventeen million books in print and has been published in over fifty languages worldwide. Yancey worked as a journalist in Chicago for some twenty years, editing the youth magazine Campus Life while also writing for a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Christianity Today. In 1992, he and his wife, Janet, moved to the foothills of Colorado, where they live now.

Have you noticed in others, in yourself, how slow personal growth can be? What if you leaned in, and realized, it's normal. Grow is slow, nature, grow is slow in humans. Our faced paced world with all its answers only milliseconds away, give us a false sense of the speed of true growth in our lives, which is slow. Sometimes painstakingly slow. So give others, give yourself a break and lean into slow growth. 

Joan Chittister is one of the most influential religious and social leaders of our time. For 50 years she has passionately advocated on behalf of peace, human rights, women’s issues, and church renewal. A much sought-after speaker, counselor and clear voice that bridges across all religions, she is also a best-selling author of more than 60 books, hundreds of articles, and an online column for the National Catholic Reporter. She has received numerous writing awards and honors for her work, and is a noted international lecturer as well as a former fellow at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, England.

What do you do when things don't go as planned? Are you disappointed, sad, angry? We all have points in our lives when things don't go our way. It's how we face those times that can make a huge difference in our lives. I

t's how we face those times that can make a huge difference in our lives. What's a good way to face these challenges? We talk about this in this episode. 

Dr. Mark Mayfield's painful personal experiences have now become accepted and integral parts of his life story. His years of guiding hundreds of people into mental, emotional, and spiritual health have equipped him. His personal life and professional life have set him on a mission to help you accept yourself as you are, then face, understand, and become the best version of yourself. We talk about his new book The Path out of Loneliness: Finding and Fostering Connection to God, Ourselves, and One Another

Temitope (Teh-ME-toh-PEH) is a worship artist who writes music empowering the Church to love beyond comfort. If you ask him about the genre of his music, he’ll refer to it as “horizontal worship” because it mobilizes the Church, the family of God, to share His love, which is freely given, with others, particularly those who are different from ourselves. In doing so, the Church becomes an active agent of reconciliation in the world. Temitope has carefully curated a distinct sound to spread and reflect this message. 

The name, “Temitope,” originates from the Yorùbá tribe in Nigeria and means “mine is praise.” He was raised in a multicultural home by his Nigerian and British immigrant parents in San Diego, CA.

Finding our true worth. Because the world rewards what we do, or produce we often tie our value, our worth in the same way. We think if we produce more, or we do more, make more money our value will increase. The truth is we have infinite value, and it's not connected to what we do or produce, it's because of whose we are, and who created us, God.

In an era where social media can be so toxic, is it possible to make social media a less hateful, less divisive, and a more encouraging place to be? Author and pastor Doug Bursch, thinks so. Doug  explores this question, and talks about practical ways to bring peace and hold space for others in his book Posting Peace: Why Social Media Divides Us and What We Can Do About It