Looking Within - A Contemplative Podcast
Looking Within is a podcast to help you quiet your mind, settle your body, and see God’s presence in your everyday life. Julie Stevens leads this program with the hope your time together will help you to feel more grounded, whole, and filled with a growing desire to be a conduit of God’s love and presence to the world around you.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 137
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
The Three Energy Centers
We work so hard to independently acquire security, affection, and control. When our efforts are thwarted, we experience frustration and unconscious behaviors and reactions. But there’s a visceral sen…
Breath: Jesus’ Life-Giving and Peace-Filled Gift
During these days of isolation, fear, uncertainty, and new normals, let your breath be a place where you find God. Imagine Jesus appearing before you as he did to the disciples on the evening of his …
Be still, and know that I am God.
It’s the day after Easter, but fear, anxiety, uncertainty, feeling totally off balance due to the new normals of different routines and daily patterns . . . these move front and center into my mind a…
Lent Experience - Week 7, Part 3 | Life of the Beloved
Today is the final episode of our Lent Experience. It’s been wonderful to travel through these weeks with you. I hope you’ve enjoyed pondering some of the sections of Henry Nouwen’s book Life of the …
Lent Experience - Week 7, Part 2 | The Power of a Meal
Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday, the night when Jesus and his disciples gathered in the Upper Room to eat a final meal together. Jesus’ first sharing of the bread and wine (the Lord’s Supper) took place …
Lent Experience - Week 7, Part 1 | Living as the Beloved
We begin the final week of our Lent Experience with an eye on what these weeks might mean for our lives: How will I carry out my personal mission to live as God’s beloved? How will being chosen, bles…
Lent Experience - Week 6, Part 3 | Given - Our Death Can Be a Gift as Well
This week we’ve been pondering how each of us is given for the sake of others. This can happen through both our life, and through our death. We are called to live for others, but also to die for othe…
Lent Experience - Week 6, Part 2 | Given - Our Life is Our Greatest Gift
There are many wonderful ways that we can give to others through our talents and skills or through our finances. But the greatest gift of all is our life. “Who can we be for each other?” is the core …
Lent Experience - Week 6, Part 1 | Given - Finding Deep Fulfillment
In a society that speaks more about having than giving, we find our deepest fulfillment by being given as a gift for others. Jesus’ entire life modeled this, and now more than ever, we are called to …
Lent Experience - Week 5, Part 3 | Broken to Share Lovingkindness
Each Friday’s bonus episode will include a Lovingkindness meditation. The meditation begins with words of self-love and self-compassion, spreading from there to express love for all others and creati…
Lent Experience - Week 5, Part 2 | Lessons and Changes in Brokenness
Accepting and embracing our most challenging and painful experiences can crack our hearts open in ways that can be of help to both us and others. As we look back at things we’ve come through, we can …
Lent Experience - Week 5, Part 1 | Cracked, a Bit Broken, and Helpful
You are beloved and perfect just the way you are! Both our perfections and imperfections are all meant to bless us, to provide us with greater wisdom and opportunities for inner healing, and to enabl…
Lent Experience - Week 4, Part 3 | Blessed to Share Lovingkindness
Each Friday’s bonus episode will include a Lovingkindness meditation. The meditation begins with words of self-love and self-compassion, spreading from there to express love for all others and creati…
Lent Experience - Week 4, Part 2 | Welcoming and Naming Brokenness
Our struggles and brokenness carry clues for our healing. As we give these parts of our life to God -- letting them go -- we can break negative patterns and emotions, and find the peace of releasing …
Lent Experience - Week 4, Part 1 | Finding the Beauty in Brokenness
I’ve heard it said that our struggles don’t define us, they refine us. Like the refining of gold, the fires of suffering and brokenness can make us stronger, more beautiful, more unique, and more pri…
Lent Experience - Week 3, Part 3 | Blessed to Share Lovingkindness
Each Friday’s bonus episode will include a Lovingkindness meditation. The meditation begins with words of self-love and self-compassion, spreading from there to express love for all others and creati…
Lent Experience - Week 3, Part 2 | Blessed to Know: “I’m guided and protected.”
A beloved child of God, as we all are, is not immune to the challenges and uncertainties of life. And yet, knowing that we’re blessed and affirmed by God as a much loved son or daughter, we can feel …
Lent Experience - Week 3, Part 1 | Blessed to Hear: “I am there.”
Despite outward appearances that may lead you to feel somewhat more cursed, alone, and out of control than blessed, may you remember and hear God’s voice saying to you: “I am there”.
Lent Experience - Week 2, Part 3 | Blessed to Share Lovingkindness
Each Friday’s bonus episode will include a Lovingkindness meditation. The meditation begins with words of self-love and self-compassion, spreading from there to express love for all others and creati…
Lent Experience - Week 2, Part 2 | Blessed
Our Wednesday bonus episodes bring our topic for the week a little closer to home as I Invite you to examine something about your own life and journey a little more closely. This week, we reflect on …