Journey to the Beloved Community Podcasts: Recent Episodes
Stacey
We invite you to use this as a way to start your day and keep the ideas of each week forefront in your mind, heart, and prayers. These 2-3 minutes meditative moments can help deepen our experience and capacity for this sacred work by creating time for centering, quiet and reflection.
Day 7: Simply be. – Rest, recover and reset, knowing that you were created to love. Allow yourself the gift of being exactly who God is creating you to be.
Day 6: We reflect on all we’ve learned. - May the tools, the lessons, the insights and conversations be for our good, and for this world’s good.
Day 5: We choose the higher path, the higher self, and to walk the higher way. – We stand at a crossroad between who we are and who God is calling us to be. And, the question we must ask in the depths of ourselves is, “Who will we choose to be?
Day 4: We are called to reflect the image of God in a more complete way. – In our routine and our rhythm, we are called to reflect the best image of God in what we do and how we do it.
Day 3: God helps us lose, so that we may gain. - Like Adam, we must lose a part of ourselves to gain wholeness. We explore what things inside us are fading away so that we can become more complete – healed, whole, restored – growing in the image of God.
Day 2: We expand in thought, in sight, and in deed. – What does the Lord require of you? To be who you are becoming, to grow into the best image of God, a person full of compassion, deep in wisdom and understanding, grounded in awareness of oneself, and grounded in awareness of what can be by God’s grace. What does the lrod require of you but to be who you are becoming, expanded in thought, in sight and in deed.
Day 1: We continue to stretch our hearts to prepare for deeper love. — Love of the other, of oneself, of mercy, compassion and of justice are not an abstract concepts. God requires us to love in a deeper way, a way that leads to more justice, mercy and humility within this world.
Day 6: We pause to reflect. – In a time of silence, we pause to consider all we’ve learned and make these lessons our own deep within our body, mind and soul.
Day 5: We open ourselves to the gift of a humble spirit. – We embrace the gift of simple humility, allowing that humble spirit to expand and deepen within us.
Day 4: We allow grace to overflow within us. – We seek a clean heart and a right and renewed spirit that assumes the best in all that we do and all that is before us.
Day 3: We pray: “God to be gracious to me, to us.” - The sound of our prayer takes us into a deeper silence as we reflect on how the grace of God overflows into the ways we see, speak and act toward others.
Day 2: We embrace the communal gift of grace. – Recognizing that God’s grace is a gift to all people, we embrace the collective aspects of grace.
Day 1: We absorb the grace of God. – The grace of God undergirds all that we do and all that we are. We absorb the simple prayer, “Be gracious to me, O God,” so that we may be grounded in grace when we respond to others.
Day 7: Simply be. – Rest, recover and reset. Allow yourself the gift of being exactly who God is creating you to be.
Day 6: We allow what we have learned to seep into our souls – We absorb all that is needed in the depths of our heart and soul and release what needs to be released.
Day 5: A cool spirit creates understanding. – The gift of cooling down our spirit when it is needed allows us to operate from a higher place of wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Day 4: Exploring the power of patience – We imagine how, in our lives, patience can deepen, expand and become more intense.
Day 3: We make space for God to abide in us. – We clean out the emotional and spiritual clutter that denies us the space for the presence of patience, peace, and deeper love.
Day 2: We seek patience. – One of the fruits of the spirit is patience, or long-suffering. Let us lengthen and stretch our spirits together now so that we may have just a little more endurance, a little more strength, to bear with another in love.
Day 1: Let us grow in patience. – Slow down and give yourself a few moments to grow in the soil of patience, allow your love to grow in the soil of patience.
Day 7: Simply be. – Rest, recover and reset as deep breath moves through you. The more you breathe, the better you feel as you allow a brief moment of purifying cleansing, stillness and silence.
Day 6: Listen deeply and absorb. – We pause to allow what we have learned in our minds, what we may have received in our bodies, to sink into the deeper parts of our soul.
Day 5: We seek a deeper level of knowledge. – In deep silence, we open our body, heart and soul. We let go of what hinders us and open to the lessons, insights, and small revelations bubbling up.
Day 4: “The one who holds their words knows knowledge.” – We are aware of our open hands and are ready and open to receive insight and understanding.
Day 3: Practice receptivity as you release and surrender. – Be exactly where you are. Notice the sensation in the palms of your hands as they feel lighter, letting go of what hinders you from learning and listening.
Day 2: Pay attention to your breath. – Allow your breath to teach you the lesson of the necessity of inhaling and exhaling, of receiving and letting go.
Day 1: “Listen” is a prayer. – Be open and receptive as you prepare your ears, as well as your hearts and souls, to be responsive.
Day 7: Simply be – Rest, recover, reset. Breathe and allow yourself the gift of being exactly who God is creating you to be.
Day 6 : Absorb all that is needed – In the depths of your heart and soul, absorb the information and knowledge you’ve received and release what needs to be released.
Day 5: Reconnect with the soul’s hidden treasures. - Notice the soul’s good forgotten memories, thoughts, emotions or feelings and allow yourself to experience the joy of self-exploration.
Day 4: Notice what may have been overlooked. – What “unopened boxes,” or other things in the basement of your soul haven’t been explored in a long time? Receive what needs to be received and release what needs to be released.
Day 3: Return to the deeper place within you – Notice what surrounds you in this place where you can discover new or forgotten things. Relax into any discomfort and be fully present in the possibilities of insight and exploration that are at your fingertips.
Day 3: Return to the deeper place within you – Notice what surrounds you in this place where you can discover new or forgotten things. Relax into any discomfort and be fully present in the possibilities of insight and exploration that are at your fingertips.
Day 2: We embark on a journey – This time of self exploration carries us into the basement of our souls. Pay attention to what it feels like to dwell deep in your soul. Rest in the deeper part of you.
Day 1 : Allow yourself to notice – Be still, take in your environment, see one new thing and consider what insights the stillness might bring you. May we have eyes to see.
Day 7: We recover and reset, breathe and allow. – Now is the time to simply be, to breathe and to allow yourself the gift of being exactly who God is creating you to be.
Day 6: Moving beyond love’s words. – We allow the lessons we’ve learned to seep down into the depths of our hearts, allowing the great commandment to become more than words. As we love our neighbors, our hearts continue to grow.
Day 5: We cut the strings that bind our heart. – We pay attention to our hearts and loosen the strings of regret and worry that prevent us from growing more fully.
Day 4: We begin to love ourselves more deeply. – You are beautifully made in the image of God. Allow yourself to love yourself in a fuller way and delight in what God has made.
Day 3: Our hearts are strengthened for transformation. – When we follow the command to love the Lord our God will our all heart, soul and might, we receive the strength needed for the emerging transformation.
Day 2: The love of God expands our hearts. – The love of God stretches and deepens our hearts. Where will the love of God lead you in this journey?
Day 1: Stretching our hearts, our spiritual centers – We stretch our hearts, preparing and opening them for a deeper capacity of love and understanding.