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EPS 51: The women of Sacred Ordinary Days

Thanks for listening to the Spark My Muse podcast today. Each Friday is a conversational guest episode. Today’s episode is a Spark My Muse first–not one, but two guests–the women from the podcast Sacred Ordinary Days. Jean and Lacy have quickly grown a strong tribe as they help listeners understand the seasons and rhythms of the liturgical year. They have both launched some fascinating resources too you will want to hear more about.

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Jenn square — *Click for Jenn’s site and resources*

lacy — *Click for Lacy’s site and resources.*

SHOW NOTES

MIN 1

Lacy (from Washington State) and Jenn (from Texas) intro

and how did you find each other and start a podcast?

MIN 6 What is the liturgical calendar exactly why do you find it meaningful?

• Playfulness, curiosity, exploration, tools for meaningful living.

MIN

8:30

Ritual can bring play instead of rigidity which is not what we think of with religion.

MIN 9 crafting a Rule of Life

“A rule of life offers creative boundaries in which God’s loving presence can be recognized and celebrated…” -Henry Nouwen

MIN 10:30

Ritual during Lent – Suggestions

Major theme:

Ash Wednesday the first day of LENT- remember who you are. Returning to dust and remembering your own mortality and your interior journey.

Not just about fasting.

MIN 12:00

Lent means “Spring” or springtime. Awake the true self and cast off the false self.

Fasting, prayer, alms giving bring us towards life. Death of the false self.

Preparation for Easter and it starts in the dark like a seed starts underground.

MIN 14:30 Lent is 40 days. Sundays aren’t counted because they are feast days.

40 days is a time of testing that leads us towards life.

Holy Saturday – the tomb day a day of despair.

MIN 16:30 The seasons covered in the Sacred Ordinary Days podcast

The church year, the Christian year, the liturgical year and learning alongside others.

Facebook.com/groups/sacredordinarydaystribe

MIN 18:30

Journeying in real time with everyone from all walks of life and in all age groups.

MIN 20

Lori Neff – Midday Connection – Lacy’s perpetual Calendar

Jenn’s Day Planner and KickStarter project

MIN 22

• Lectionary

• Daily Office

Liturgy means “the work of the people”

Reordering the days, minutes, and hours, and something to make it simple.

MIN 26

Lacy’s perpetual calendar and thematic seasonal prompts.

MIN 29

How the dates shift each year based on the vernal equinox and full moons.

The book of common prayer

asacredjourney.net/calendar

LENT 2016 February 10 – March 26 (but not Sundays)

MIN 32

Season of disruption where you make space and grieving the sad things about life. It prepares you for other sorrowful times in life. And prepares us to truly celebrate the wonderful times as well. We can hold both together. There are paradoxes. Both/And

MIN 35 Being fully human.

MIN 36 “It’s all grace.”

MIN 37

The underlying season remains and we can return to it whenever we need it.

MIN 38

Where you can find them.

EPS 43: A New Way to Think About Meaningful Work – with Lori Neff

It’s a NEW YEAR!!

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Lori Neff is my co-host today.

Check out her website here.

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SHOWNOTES

A theme this month is all out vocation. There will be other things covered each week too, but we will be trying to think differently about vocation and asking what it means to do meaningful work at different seasons of life.

What does it mean to you?

For Lori and her journey she wonders about doing God’s will.

3:00

What do I believe vocation is?

Privileged statement, “Do what you love and love what you do vocationally.”

Asking am I squandering gifts?

Should I live out my gifts outside a paying job?

Barbara Brown Taylor’s

An Altar in the World

About finding your calling.

About rewarding work that doesn’t pay

11:00

About doing jobs you didn’t expect or ones that seem to not be right for us.

What to you find meaningful in work? A greater purpose? Improving lives and soul work and a cause.

The Sekh eye doctor.

Riding the waves of life and look for the next wave: A natural process of change.

Learning about trust and human tendencies and using my minutes well.

The wonder of Consciousness

22:00

Spiritual direction and vocation and peace.

asking:

What do I believe is true about God?

Being okay being uncomfortable.

24:00

“Pay attention to the things that bring us joy and life”

27:30

#synCREATE

January theme of vocation

The new year as a chance to look things over.

29:00

The on Purpose Person

34:00

The pomodoro method

THE APP

38:00

Tricks to make sure you rest.

kanbanflow.com

Best productivity and distraction hacks resource documents I found in one spot.

41:00

Working respectful to yourself and like a professional

Final Resources :

Parker Palmer

Let Your Life Speak

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EPS 42: Christmas COMEDY Special

Happy Christmas everybody!

If you’re late to hear this episode (and it’s not Christmas any more) or even if you don’t celebrate Christmas at all (I love you non believers very much-xo) you will still have fun hearing this episode that I do with my sweet sidekick Lori Neff.

Enjoy the bonus photo gallery of scary Santa photos, too!

• AND if you want to share a funny or horrifying Santa story or Christmas (or winter holiday of ANY KIND, New Years, Advent candle lighting gone awry, Chanukah hullabaloo, Kwanza craziness, whatever you want) story, or share photos, you can do that here at the Spark community page.

I will have some holiday time and I’ll need a break from consuming empty calories. Friends and fans will love to hear from you, see what you’re up to, and read of your tales.

Scroll down for detailed show notes with links and bonus material.

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SHOWNOTES

I’m so happy to welcome back as a co-host, Lori Neff.

After you listen, please visit her Website!

BONUS material! The Scary Santa Gallery!

(Get ready to freak out, kids)

What did they say to each other? Santa looks about to cry too.

“As if it couldn’t get any worse…now this.”

SHOW NOTES:

Min 2:00

IS Santa scary? (usually yes)

Ugly Christmas Sweater Parties

The ironic side of Christmas.

The odd part of my childhood and never celebrating Christmas.

6:00

The RE-gifting phenomenon and a few horribly awkward re-gifting stories.

Tricky things about Christmas expectations

16:00

Favorite things about Christmas

Being drawn to the quiet (Lori)

Christmastide: The 12 days following Christmas

(another wikipedia entry 12 Days of Christmas)

Generosity and service and internalizing the Incarnation of 365 days per year.

Three Kings Day / The Epiphany

22:00

The Church Calendar

Easter

asacredjounrey.net

(a perpetual wall calendar)

We tend to forget. Ritual and remembrance help ground us and keep us in greater intimacy with God.

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EPS 38: Friendship as an Improvisational Art- Lori Neff is back!

Broadcasting pro, Lori Neff is back, as promised, and this time we have a great conversation spanning a few interesting topics and we have plenty of fun and laughter along the way too.

Visit Lori’s website HERE and make sure to listen to her new podcast that offers a variety of prayer exercises that can breathe fresh life into your devotional practice!

What was the biggest fiasco at Midday connection?

Why is just a 5 year window the ideal beauty apex for women we’ve agreed to anyway?

Will powdered wigs make a comeback?

Lori’s tale of the cringe-worthy “friend-date” gone wrong…

What makes a great friend and what might an improv class have to do with it?

And much more. ENJOY!

Scroll down for shownotes!

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MIN 1
The worst fiasco at Midday Connection

whoops!

MIN 3
What does a radio producer do?

MIN 6
Do people often try to trick the call in shows?

MIN 8:30
The stickiness of the one mean person in a sea of good folks.
Hate mail

MIN 11
Ellen DeGeneres is okay with herself and it’s served as an inspiration for being okay with people who don’t like us.

MIN 14
Being okay in your own skin. The 40 year old happy milestone.

MIN 15
Anne Lamott thinking about her looks.

MIN 16
Going through the body-consciousness and anxiety in one’s 20s.

MIN 17
I’m supposed to be upset about how I look so they can sell products.

MIN 17:30
Michelle Van Loon

The five years of life that is cherished as valuable.

MIN 18:30
Powdered wigs and white faces to reflect the value of aged beauty of the time. The construct of cultural beauty changes radically.

MIN 19:30
Dress hem lines changed because of health concerns.

MIN 21:00
Fashion, modesty and mindlessness.

MIN 23:30
Friendship was solace and rescue for me (Lisa).

MIN 25:30
Lori’s experience with friendships early on.

MIN 26:30
How personality played a part and how her wonderful college roommate taught her how to be a good friend and have a healthy fight / disagreement.

MIN 28:00
People would commonly ask “How do I find friends?”
“I feel disconnected and I don’t feel I have a best friend” was a common report from listeners who contacted Midday Connection.

MIN 28:30
Being intentional about finding and keeping friends.

MIN 29:30
Friends for a season.

MIN 30:00
The tale of a bad “friend date”.

Friendship is a vulnerable risk. The emotional risk is there.

MIN 34:00
The challenge of couple friendships.

MIN 37:30
How men and women do friendship differently and how personality plays a part.

MIN 38:00
Having a club or a project to build the friendship around.

MIN 39:30
How Lori got into Improv and starting having a blast.

The tools that improv brings.

MIN 42:00
Amy Pohler “Yes, Please”

NPR show improv.

“yes, and”

Learning to be with others. Life-giving. learning love and empathy

MIN 43:00
I see you and here’s something else. I’m not invalidating you. and I’m going to add to it and then you can add to it. A socially healthy mode of being.

Being authentic and flexible.

MIN 44:00
Teamwork and sometimes it goes a direction you didn’t think it would go. You have to let the spark go and help the other person and the team.

MIN 45:30
Ego crushing?

MIN 46:00
Do things ever get messy?

Trust in the team and trust that the good idea with come back around.

MIN 46:30
The hilarious Office episode with Michael Scott being bad at improv. (Season 2 / Episode 9)

MIN 48:00
Going with the process and not be tense about life and improv of regular life.

the fear block our creativity and the ability to be present in the ordinary moment

MIN 50:30
The improv mindset will help in friendship.

MIN 51:00
Thinking of things as play and roll with things.

MIN 53:00

My new book is here. I’ll be reading some excerpts from it on the podcast soon, so watch for a bonus episode very in a day or so.

It’s called FORKED: A Discernment Pocket Guide (for Choosing Between Two Good Things).

If you’re in the middle of a tough decision or at a crossroads season of your life, this is the resource for you. To read a sample click HERE.

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EPS 31: Life After Midday, A Conversation with former Moody Radio host Lori Neff

THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL “in-betweener” episode!
Check out the other one released this week too.
• Rolf Potts here!

The Life After Midday Story…

This Autumn, when the giant Christian Broadcasting Network, Moody Radio, suddenly ended the award-winning and popular show for women called Midday Connection, fans were stunned and so were the four hosts of the program. The show ran strong for decades and dealt with tough topics with trustworthy and transformative authenticity, and now it was abruptly over.

In the weeks and months that followed the news (first conveyed confidentially to the hosts a few months earlier) host Lori Neff struggled to find her footing. What was her identity after losing her dream job , her 18-year career, and the interaction with her friends from her job? What should be the new path for her ministry and her life’s work?

In this beautiful episode, Lori conveys to us with her characteristic authenticity and her deep well of spiritual fortitude what was happening during that time, how she has processed the tumult of the upheaval in a way that has best connected with her values, and she reveals her exciting plans for the future (some of which include THIS show). It is an inspiring and a useful model for any of us in a difficult transition or painful situation. Her message will hearten and delight you.

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Shownotes

MIN 1:30

18 years of radio broadcasting for Lori came suddenly to an end?

Broadening the scope of the women’s program to talk about spiritual formation and tougher topics.