The Dreams of the Potter Found in the Clay
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on May 1, 2012
By Patty MacCarthy, oneLifemaps Facilitator At the most recent Listen to My Life Facilitators’ Retreat in Dallas, we were certainly challenged as we observed Sharon Swing sitting before us at the potter’s wheel. She worked hard to soften and ready the clay. A beautiful blessing vessel was created. What a great illustration of God’s hand. [...]
Holy Week
Posted by 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 [...]
Living Into Lent
Posted by on February 22, 2012
by Linda Holmes, Spiritual Director Winter blossoms white and melts into rainbow colored flowers. Lent welcomes life, stirs deep, draws forth, breathes warm, Waking spring’s hostages to buried sins and borrowed sorrows. Short days of cold stretch longer as sunlight reaches late into the night. The earthbound growing strong, reaching out, rising up, Break free [...]
Christ For Me. Christ In Me. Christ Through Me.
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on January 31, 2012
By Sharon Swing, Co-Author, Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story This breath prayer is one I say as a way of reminding myself who I am and to whom I belong. It offers me peace, perspective and perseverance in times when I may be willing to believe [...]
Reviewing Your Year
Posted by on January 17, 2012
By Joan Kelley and Sibyl Towner The spiritual practice of the daily examen, what we call “reviewing my day,” helps us to live more fully in the present, learn from our moments of the day and recognize and respond to God. The same practice of review can be applied to our spiritual year. Take some [...]
Invitation To A Journey
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on August 10, 2011
by Sibyl Towner, Co-Author Listen to My Life To slow down and be still with God can be a struggle, especially with the noise and activity of our lives. Listen and watch as Sibyl shares her experience of entering into solitude in the midst of living a full and busy life.
Life Questions
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on July 26, 2011
by Sibyl Towner, Co-Author Listen to My Life All of our life we are asking questions. Often, we answer those questions externally rather than internally. Listen & watch as Sibyl discusses Life Questions and why they matter.
Audible
Posted by 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 [...]
An Honorable Discharge
Posted by on June 14, 2011
by Sibyl Towner, Co-Author of Listen To My Life It may be time to give an honorable discharge to a loyal soldier in your life. Click to watch Sibyl as she shares how this one act can help create more space for listening to God in your life.