Dear friends, I am just stopping by to tell you that I have just posted a new podcast episode, and I’d love to share it with you. This is my 10th week of podcasting, and I am loving having these conversations about all the things that are on my heart. If you haven’t given the…
Responding to the Love of God (Podcast Episode 10)
You can also listen and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. I want my life to be a response to the love of God. I am recording this podcast from a beautiful camp where we are staying for a couple of weeks while miracles are happening back home. My heart is just overflowing…
Examine Your Heart: Recognizing and Releasing Thoughts That Keep You From Living a Life of Vision (Podcast #9)
You can also listen and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. It is so easy to be paralyzed by fear, anxiety, self-doubt, regret, and all the things we cannot control in this unstable world. How can we drown out all the noise and chaos, examine our hearts and see what we are truly…
Entering a Year With Vision: How Do I Begin? (Podcast Episode #8)
You can also listen and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. Each of us longs for a life that has purpose and meaning, the feeling that we are contributing to a greater story, that we are living out the reason for which we were created. Today, I invite you to sit down with…
Every Morning I Wake Up in an Ocean
Every morning I wake up in an ocean. Sometimes the waters are calm, sometimes they are tumultuous, raging with storms that seem to never subside. They are always over my head. It is easy to slip under the waters of fear. It is effortless to drown in downpours of sorrow. It is second-nature to be…
Closing a Difficult Year With Gratitude (Podcast Episode #7)
You can also listen and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. We are at the close of 2020. It has been a difficult year with many tests and trials. How can we look back over this year without cursing it, but searching and thanking God for the beauty within it? How can we…
Enter Your Year With Vision: An Online Journaling Retreat
Friends, we are about to start a new year, and I want to enter into it with purpose and a clear vision of how I can step into the role that God has designed for my life. I feel a deep need to quiet the noise, take a holy breath, and pray, journal, and reflect…
Journaling and the Bridge to Peace (Podcast Episode #6)
You can also listen and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. Today we are talking about one of my favorite subjects–the transformative practice of keeping a journal. Journaling is the intersection of my creative and spiritual life, it is where all my good ideas start, it is where I come to make peace…
The Miracle and Struggle of Just Being: Thoughts on my 39th Birthday (Podcast Episode #5)
You can also listen and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. On my 39th birthday, I am sharing thoughts about the miracle of existing in the world and the constant struggle to find meaning within each moment and season of that existence. How can we inhabit our lives with grace, without looking back…
Buy One, Give One Free Journaling Course
If you have been wanting to try the Innermost Journaling Course, now is the time! Between now and Christmas Eve, I am running a special Buy One, Give One Free promotion on my course. You simply purchase the course, email me at mackenziechester@yahoo.com with the subject: B1G1, and I will reply with a gift certificate…
For Which My Heart Is Yearning
In the busyness of the the day, I forget that I am soul and spirit. I move, like a machine, through the mechanics of my life: Head turning at a sudden cry, arms lifting baby, voice humming softly like a washing machine. Fingers folding laundry, hands scrubbing muffin pans, feet moving through rooms, ears listening,…
The Space Between Here and a Miracle (Podcast Episode #4)
You can also listen and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. For anyone who is waiting on God to answer prayers for a way forward… Anyone who is at the end of their own resources… Anyone who, like me, needs a boost of faith this morning… Today I am reminding myself of God’s…