The Inspired Journey
A Woman's Blueprint for Spirit-Filled Living
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Some time ago our local Public Broadcasting station aired a program called Frontier House. This program was a fascinating study of the contrast between life in the 21st century and life in the 1800’s. For the experiment, three families were uprooted from their lives in 2002, trained briefly on how to survive life in the 1800’s, stripped of all modern conveniences – which were replaced by the tools and implements of the earlier century – and then transplanted to Montana for five months, armed with what they had learned. Their charge – to homestead a plot of land that could conceivably allow them to survive for five years, after which time the land would be theirs. Each of the families underwent a radical transformation in the process of settling into the inevitability and enormity of the adjustments they all had to make to deal with the immediate future that stretched ominously before them. Upon their re-entry to our current era, each family spoke about feeling displaced, out of sync with the world they had known and had been so attached to prior to the experiment. They all described it differently, but three themes emerged: 1. A sense of feeling overwhelmed by the sensation of life coming “at” them 2. A feeling of “too muchness” – too much noise, too much bright lighting, too many choices 3. A sense of feeling disconnected and isolated from their truest, most heartfelt priorities These feelings all describe the view that life is beyond our control and ability to manage it, and the unintentional by-product of being swept along against our will. Yielding to the constant demands on us to BE more, DO more, and HAVE more, we have gotten caught up in an epidemic of “busyness” that presents us with excessive demands on our time and too many choices to make. In our haste, we become unwitting victims of our own choices and find ourselves imprisoned by them while we were looking the other way, so to speak.
Formats Book Details A woman begins her spiritual journey through her heart. It is this heart connection that allows women to reach out for guidance as they move deeper within for spiritual discovery. In The Inspired Journey, authors Brown and Mason provide women with a nurturing, yet challenging, guide to lead them through their essential journey to God. The journey is an experiential one. Women will be inspired through the myths and stories within each chapter, as well as through the revelations of the authors’ own life lessons. Journaling and meditation exercises serve as useful tools to help women uncover the blocks that keep them from tapping into their God-given greatness. Whether studied alone or as part of a women’s study group, The Inspired Journey empowers women to choose more consciously, to listen more deeply, to surrender more willingly and to awaken more joyfully. Deep within each woman’s heart, the soft voice of Eternal Spirit longs to be acknowledged. The Inspired Journey offers women the opening to hear the voice and respond to its urgings by creating a passionate, spirit-filled life.
Sandye Brown spent more than 20 years in corporate management before establishing Wide Awake, Inc., a company specializing in organizational and leadership transformation. Since 1992 she has worked as an executive coach to Fortune 500 companies including Sears, Allstate, and GE Capital. As a transformational consultant, Sandye helps organizations develop collaborative and compassionate work environments. Sandye earned a Bachelors degree from Alexis Mason is a master educator with a passion for lifelong learning and nurturing learning in others. She holds a Masters degree in Education from Alexis and her husband, Dave, live outside Camas, In addition to their work together as authors, Sandye and Alexis are partners in Inspired Connections, where they develop and deliver workshops and other programs to help women grow in self-understanding, self-love, and learning as they affirm and expand their faith, their self-awareness, and their service to their families and communities, and the organizations in which they are involved.
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