We can learn to see God anywhere. Author and spiritual director Charlotte Donlon leads us in a spiritual practice called divine drawing. Using a story from her book, Charlotte helps us engage our senses and memories to discover God in familiar places.

What if your loneliness was space meant for God? Charlotte Donlon and I continue the conversation about sharing the universal burden of loneliness in Part 2. She also reads a chapter from her book.

This episode describes three ways the arts help us show compassion as wounded healers. A guided 5-minute breath prayer is included to help you experience God's compassion personally:

“Courage—you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.” —Maya Angelou. This is a different kind of courage: the courage to slow it way down and how to train for it.

How do we make space for the creative gladness we require in order to create? In this episode, I share about the core value of creativity and five ways to reignite your energy when it seems gone.

How am I using my creative capacities to know God? Am I living in resurrected life? Josh Banner, spiritual director and creator of the Invitation Podcast, leads a lectio divina style meditation based on Phillipians 3:10, “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death” (NKJV).

Josh Banner is a spiritual director and host of the Invitation Podcast. This is part two of our deep dive interview. We discuss spiritual direction, how contemplative prayer helped him have more fun, and ways to find deep rest in things you are already doing.

Carolyn Arends is a recording artist, speaker, author, and college instructor. We talk about the ebb and flow of creative rhythms and bringing our doubts to God. We chat about:

• tending to your garden during exile as a creative person,

• and expressing emotions with God during disorientation through prayer and art,

Ted Harrow is a strategy and leadership development consultant and marriage retreat leader. We talk about:

• shifting creative energy in writing during crisis,

• resilience and managing ourselves well,

• feelings as friends to help us participate in a life of joy and wholeness,

• self talk scripts in marriage, and

• being people of light in the middle of confusion.

In this podcast we talk about:

• developing creative rhythms for home, work, and faith,

• silence, solitude, and movement as contemplative practice,

• what art can teach us about letting go and moving forward in pandemic and unknowing,

Kris Camealy is the founder and director of the Refine {the retreat} for writers and the author of Everything Is Yours: How Giving God Your Whole Heart Changes Your Whole Life. She created gracetable.org and writes for The Cultivating Project and Joyful Life.