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Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations Potter's Inn
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Potter’s Inn Soul Care Conversations is a place where our souls meet the world. We invite you into a relevant, vulnerable, and courageous conversation with us. We’ll explore key Soul Care issues facing us in work, health, relationships, and God. In our busy lives we all need a space to reflect, be inspired, and get some needed resources to help us navigate the white water of life. This podcast is provided by Potter’s Inn, a ministry dedicated to the care of the soul for leaders in the ministry and the marketplace. Stephen W. Smith is the host and the author of 12 books and guides. The Soul Care Conversation podcast is listened to in over 80 countries and has over 275,000 downloads. Approximately 6,000+ people listen to the podcast monthly. The podcast has interviewed such guests as Ruth Haley Barton, Roger Housden, Brian McLaren, Sarah Bessy and others.
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I Think I Need 100 Days Like This
This cool breeze by the river bank.
A great blue heron feeding in the shallows.
The pilated woodpecker serenading the forest with its haunting song.
I think I need one hundred days like this!
Slowly, ever so slowly. Here. Now. This!
Bit by bit and little by little, I feel a twinge of what may be life.
A steady erosion has happened in me.
It’s taken time to do this damage.
It will take more time to regain what’s been lost.
The locust have ravaged much I feel now.
Sad stories, and far too many of them, have layered my heart with deep grief.
I think I need one hundred days like this.
But today, I just may have felt my heart again.
As I let this breeze wash over me, is this a baptism of love?
And as silence does what only the deep quiet does,
I sit here and stay here for a while this beautiful morn.
Soaking. Marinating. Feasting . Healing. -
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Discernment: Finding Our Way, Part 2
Discernment is the process of gaining clarity on finding direction for the next step of our journey.
SHOW NOTES Today’s podcast is part two of a discussion between Steve and Spiritual Director Martie McMane. Martie is a retired minister, artist, and spiritual director who used a collage process with Steve & Gwen to help them make some crucial life decisions during a period of repositioning. They continue the conversation today about how the collage process can work in each of our own lives
Thank you for joining us in today’s conversation!
ABOUT MARTIE MCMANE
Rev. Martie McMane, MA, M.Div, is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and was the Senior Minister of First Congregational Church in Boulder from 2000-2016. As a certified Enneagram teacher for 25 years, Martie has reached well over 1,000 people with her in-depth knowledge of the Enneagram and how its understanding can be transformative for our lives. In retirement, she enjoys creating pastels and mixed media, using it as a way to express the connection with the Divine as witnessed in nature and what it means to be human.
Martie’s Website
Mentioned in the Podcast
SoulCollage Evolving: An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery and Community by Seena B. Frost
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life by Henri Nouwen
Merton’s Prayer: Finding God’s Will
This is the Soul Collage that Steve did in the retreat with Marty.
MUSIC USED IN PODCAST Music Break at 23:13 - A Gaelic Blessing: Meditation by John Rutter Music Break at 39:50 - There will be Rest by Frank Ticheli - performed by Kantorei
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INTERESTED IN MORE SOUL CARE RESOURCES?
Check out our recommended reading, books on spiritual growth, and our soul care blog. Want to experience soul care in person? Learn more about our soul care intensives and retreats. -
Ep 146: Discernment: Finding our Way, Part 1
Discernment is the process of gaining clarity on finding direction for the next step of our journey.
SHOW NOTES Last year Steve and Gwen went through a period of repositioning: changes were on the horizon but any clarity about what to do next was clouded by the realization that they were not on the same page. They reached out to a trusted Spiritual Director for help and the result was what they called a “Discernment Retreat.” They needed clarity. They needed discernment.
Today’s podcast is a discussion between Steve and the Spiritual Director they called on for help, Martie McMane. A retired minister, artist, and spiritual director, Martie used a collage process that helped Steve & Gwen in making those crucial, life decisions. Today they dive deep into the process.
Thank you for joining us in today’s conversation!
ABOUT MARTIE MCMANE
Rev. Martie McMane, MA, M.Div, is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and was the Senior Minister of First Congregational Church in Boulder from 2000-2016. As a certified Enneagram teacher for 25 years, Martie has reached well over 1,000 people with her in-depth knowledge of the Enneagram and how its understanding can be transformative for our lives. In retirement, she enjoys creating pastels and mixed media, using it as a way to express the connection with the Divine as witnessed in nature and what it means to be human.
Martie’s Website
Mentioned in the Podcast
SoulCollage Evolving: An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery and Community by Seena B. Frost
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life by Henri Nouwen
Merton’s Prayer: Finding God’s Will
This is the Soul Collage that Steve did in the retreat with Marty.
MUSIC USED IN PODCAST Music Break at 33:22 & 36:32 - Waltz for the Broken Hearted Written and performed by Jeff Wahl.
SUPPORT THE PODCAST Please consider a gift to support our ministry. We have a few ways to make it easy for you:
Use our Donation Page on our Website
Donate using our new App
Send by mail (Potter’s Inn, PO Box 35, Divide, Colorado 80814 - make sure you make note that your gift is for the podcast)
FIND US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM
Facebook
Soul Care Conversations Group Page
Potter’s Inn Main FB Page
Instagram
CONTACT US
podcast@pottersinn.com
INTERESTED IN MORE SOUL CARE RESOURCES?
Check out our recommended reading, books on spiritual growth, and our soul care blog. Want to experience soul care in person? Learn more about our soul care intensives and retreats.