This week, I’m talking with Nora Gallagher, author of Things Seen and Unseen and Practicing Resurrection, about discerning the true shape of our lives and how she managed to rise to the challenge of finding and living her life’s purpose. Be sure to chime in with your comments!
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P.S. Do you want to know the shape of your soul? Want to mobilize your mojo? I invite you to join me in Santa Barbara in May. You won’t regret it.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Barbara Apr 22, 2006
Dear Jen, I have just listened to podcast 6 with Nora Gallagher and loved it. I live in England and Sirius Radio is not available to subscribe to here YET so it is so good of you to put these podcasts out. Oh how I wanted to listen to more. This is just to say Many Thanks. I have also been trying to find her books here and will have to ASK next time I am in Borders. I have had to specially order yours.
Barbara
2 cindy Apr 24, 2006
Jen- i think this is your best podcast thus far! keep up the good work! cindy
3 Tara Apr 26, 2006
Jen,
Today my faith has been reaffirmed thanks to you and Nora Gallagher. When I first visited your blog today I went to the link on creativity that you had and ended up reading Hugh’s SEX and CASH essay. It actually crushed me a bit, because all week I’ve been having this feeling that the material writing I do to earn a living is really not for me any more. It is robbing me of all of my time these days, and my true passions are being ignored. Something, not unlike the roadblock Nora Gallagher described has been telling me that I need to give it up, take a risk, and get back to my true path. After reading Hugh’s essay and all of the comments, I felt like God wanted me to read it for a reason, though I wasn’t sure why. Then I listened to the podcast. And that is where I felt truly inspired. This is not the first time I have felt the divine hand leading me to your blog/podcast. On Sunday I went back to church for the first time in a year. I too felt like something was pushing me to go back to church. I stopped going to church when I realized that it was all too ritualistic for me and that there was nothing creative about the Anglican service. My beliefs are that God built us as creative individuals and he deserves much more than carbon copy services every Sunday. However, the book I’m reading right now, Cure for the Common Life-Living in Your Sweet Spot by Max Lucado jumped out of a shelf at the library on Friday and somehow convinced me that if I want to find my own sweet spot (or confirm that I already know what it is) I ought to find some sort of church community. I decided to try a United church because it was a pretty blue colour and I’d never been to a blue church. Instead of a long dull sermon about Biblical times, the United church service had “Reflections” where 3 different people got up and spoke and the minister tied everything in beautifully in between. There were no memorized meaningless prayers. A woman got up and prayed beautifully from the heart about things that matter today. At the end everyone joined hands and sang a song instead of simply saying “peace” and shaking hands–which is all I have ever known as an Anglican. (Besides that, the seats were padded and you don’t have to get on your knees to pray.)
I’m going to continue searching for my sweet spot this week, thanks to you and Nora. God has such funny ways of speaking through other writers these days, that I just know I too have something to offer that is beyond writing TOEIC and TOEFL essays and questions.
Thanks again.
Tara