Halfway There11 Mars 2019

131: Sharon Wing and how to Listen to Your Life

Sharon Swing is the co-author of Listen to My Life; Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in my Story. Today she shares how listening and life maps aided her in her own journey and how she adapted it to help others in their journeys as well. Through multiple experiences she found where she was meant to be and how she could help people push on from where they are right now. She gives some of her tricks to life mapping and encourages us all to reflect on our own journeys.

Listen to Sharon’s story today!

Stories Sharon shared:

Growing up in the NW suburbs of Chicago in a Christian family
How a baptism service captured her heart
The experience that brought her to tears after college
A charismatic experience that changed her life
Why experiences needs to be added to how we learn about God
Her first lesson in listening to the Holy Spirit
Entering ministry at Willow Creek Association and then having to leave
How she was inspired to create Listen to My Life
The story that made her cry and helped her realize why she has to keep going

Great quotes from Sharon:

My experience was God was a cosmic line judge waiting to tell me if I was in or out of bounds.

Our box for God is so small and so confided… and God kinda blows the sides off of it on a regular basis.

God always met me very invitationally, lovingly and humorously.

It’s a seismic shift in perspective from discontent to contentment.

Resources we mentioned:

OneLife Maps website
OneLife Maps on Facebook
The Critical Journey, Stages in the Life of Faith, Second Edition by Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich
A Listening Heart by David Steindl-Rast
One Life Maps Podcast

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