This is the final episode for now of “Looking Within,” but we’re very excited to be offering a new Facebook page called the “Looking Within Collective” to help you on your inner journey!

Looking Within - A Contemplative Podcast

Goodbye for now, but hello as well!

The pearls of wisdom of those who have gone before us would be many! But one pearl sure to make the list would be the reminder that life is short. Don’t waste time on inner offenses, or on inner upset over unfulfilled expectations for life and others. Just get on with doing what you’re meant to do!

Get on with doing what you’re meant to do!

We are not always good at waiting, are we! It can be annoying to have to wait for things or people, seemingly taking up many moments of our life. But although we don’t like waiting, it is often the most important part of the spiritual journey.

Doesn’t Waiting Just Drive You Crazy?

Jesus prays for you, in real time. Could there be a more comforting reality that's securely wrapped around your life? -- that you're loved and supported by wonderful people, but above all, by Jesus?

Prayers in Real-Time

God does not primarily choose any of us for a role or task. God is really choosing us to be God’s self in the world, in our own unique situations and settings. We are each a part of uniquely being the face of God, sharing divine love in a way that no one else can or will.

Chosen to Love

Do you ever have one of those days when you just need to be loved? Do you ever doubt that who you are, or what you have to offer to the world, is really all that valuable? It’s so easy to forget our true identity as beloveds of God. You are enough. You are just right!

Have You Forgotten Your True Identity?

Today may you be encouraged in the role you play in your corner of the world. As helpless as we might feel to make even a dent in humanity’s challenges, it is a first, wonderful step to let our hearts soften in love.

Love Needs Only the Simplest of Moments

Contemplation is really just another word for prayer. At its core is relationship, and not the saying of prayers or the making requests to God (which are good and important in their own right). Contemplation brings us into a life lived in constant union and relationship with God.

Contemplation: Your Life is Your Spiritual Practice

There is gold inside of you, longing for your attention to see new possibilities, new things to explore or to do, new ways of being that allow your wonderful light to shine as a uniquely made child of God.

There Is Gold Inside of You

It’s time to shed the dry crustiness that’s clinging to us from the winter. And if you’re feeling a little lost, weakened, and parched from the year now past, then remember the Risen Christ is always present to guide and strengthen you.

Dry and Crusty Becomes Fresh and New

Today, we conclude our seven week series entitled, “Imagining a New Life and a New Story.” This week, we have considered Jesus’ practice of being fully present to death. What do we do when we face death or when things don’t work out the way we had hoped? Gently hold this question as you enter into our guided meditation.

Imagining a New Life and a New Story | Week 7, Episode C: Guided Meditation into: Death - The Ultimate Spiritual Practice

Today, we continue the seventh and final week of, “Imagining a New Life and a New Story.” In this season of Lent, we’ve observed many of the practices that formed Jesus’ story and life. This week, we consider what may be the ultimate spiritual practice that forms us and gives us our story -- our encounter with death.

Imagining a New Life and a New Story | Week 7, Episode B: Death - The Ultimate Spiritual Practice, Jesus’ Example and Teaching

Today, we begin the seventh and final week of, “Imagining a New Life and a New Story.” In this season of Lent, we’ve observed many of the practices that formed Jesus’ story and life. This week, we consider what may be the ultimate spiritual practice that forms us and gives us our story -- our encounter with death.

Imagining a New Life and a New Story | Week 7, Episode A: Death - The Ultimate Spiritual Practice

Each Friday’s bonus episode is a guided meditation inviting you into silence and solitude. This week, we have considered Jesus’ practice of taking the one seat: What do we do when life gives us a challenging situation and there is no way out? Gently hold this question as you enter into our guided meditation.

Imagining a New Life and a New Story | Week 6, Episode C: Guided Meditation into Taking the One Seat

This week, we continue our series of Lenten podcasts, entitled, “Imagining a New Life and a New Story.” We are paying close attention to the practices that formed Jesus’ life. This week, we consider the practice of “taking the one seat.” Today, we observe how Jesus taught and lived out this practice with his disciples.

Imagining a New Life and a New Story | Week 6, Episode B: Taking the One Seat - The Examples of the Disciples and Jesus

Looking Within is a podcast for the spiritual explorer in each of us. Julie Stevens leads as she explores the inner life using contemplative practices and invites others to do the same. In each episode, we hope you gain a sense of hope, meaning, joy, and love.

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Looking Within - A Contemplative Podcast

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