Holy Week
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on April 3, 2012
by Sibyl Towner, Co-Author of Listen To My Life and Co-Director of The Springs Holy Week is here. Aren’t all weeks holy? What is different about this week? It is the week where we see, feel, touch, taste, hear and ponder the length, width, depth, height, and breadth of God’s love for every human being [...]
Overwhelmed By God
Posted by on August 16, 2011
By Joan Kelley, oneLifemaps Facilitator “If the vision isn’t overwhelming to you, it’s probably insulting to God.” –Steven Furtick I heard this quote this week at a conference on leadership and it’s been stirring in my soul ever since. It scares me and reassures me all in the same breath. I’m wondering how God might [...]
Audible
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on July 5, 2011
by Rebecca Madden, oneLifemaps Facilitator and author of the Listen to My Life Group Facilitator’s Guide Last Sunday, our senior pastor said, “The whole Christian life is an audible.” That sentence literally brought me to tears. I feel like audibles are how God directs me. I am not saying I hear God’s audibles like I hear my children’s [...]
A Glimmer of Hope
Posted by on March 15, 2011
by Cheri Hudspith, oneLife Maps Facilitator Here is the blunt truth about my first reaction to the Desires and Longings Map: “I’m not going to like doing this map. I don’t dream. I think other people are good at dreaming. I’m not one of them.” If I had not committed to going through all of [...]
The Perfect Gift
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on December 20, 2010
by Sibyl Towner, Co-Author Listen to My Life The Christmases that my husband Dick and I have experienced over the years have become a part of our family’s story— traveling to visit relatives, with never enough time to see everybody, and assembling toys long after the kids had gone to bed. There was the year that [...]
What Will Make Me Happy
Posted by on December 15, 2010
Click here to listen Sibyl talk about “What Will Make Me Happy”, and click Coming Home to Your True Self: Leaving the Emptiness of False Attractions by Albert Hasse to read the details about the book to which she refers. Sibyl Towner is a co-author of Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God [...]
A Little Piece of Heaven
Posted by on October 28, 2010
By Joan Kelley, oneLife Maps Facilitator My 14 year old daughter has an addiction. It’s a serious problem that her aunt tells her “will catch up to her someday.” Megan is addicted to potatoes. She has never met a potato she didn’t like. As she says, it’s a “little piece of heaven.” She ordered potato [...]
An Unexpected Longing
Posted by on October 12, 2010
by Jennifer Mote, Listen to My Life Facilitator During my high school years, I was introduced to running. I was not a Cross Country girl, rather it was part of our conditioning work for Basketball. Our gym had a running track underneath it and I would run down there on rainy days and outside in [...]
The Unlikely Leader
Posted by on September 28, 2010
by Anita Schamber Recently I facilitated a Board retreat for a Women of Vision Chapter in Charlotte, North Carolina. (These women partner in local community projects, as well as global projects, sponsored by World Vision.) Although I was immersed in a crowd of amazing women leaders, my devotional focused on an “unlikely” leader, the Samaritan [...]
Your Highest Calling
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on September 23, 2010
By Sharon Swing, Co-Author, Listen to my Life Maybe I’m getting a bit too sensitive. Maybe not. I’d like to know what you think. While listening to a radio program, a caller identified himself as a pastor. Before answering the man’s question, the host encouraged this man by saying that the role of a pastor [...]