Who are you? How we answer this question determines everything in life. Too often our culture answers it for us, taking us away from being in touch with who we truly are. The essence of the spiritual life is to reclaim our lost identity. Using a blend of storytelling and interviews, the Soul Search podcast is an up-close look at this journey, taking you below the surface of life to find your deepest and truest
self.

Music: The Onyx by Blue Dot Sessions

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In Episode One of our very first podcast series, called "Welcome Your Life," we look at walking as a spiritual practice to deepen our awareness in life. This is a certain kind of walking, not to get anywhere or to accomplish anything. Instead it is a walk to linger and to listen.

We'll join Kirk Davis, a San Francisco native and community leader in the city's Bayview neighborhood, to trace the steps of a sacred walk he would take through the city. Often taking several hours, it is a way he intentionally listened to what the city is saying to him about the past and the future. And to what stirred in his heart as he contemplated both. Find out what he heard.

Intro | Meet Kirk (00:00)

Act 1 | Bayview Forever (2:58) - A wave of gentrification has Kirk's neighborhood changing.

Act 2 | Walls without Walls (19:35) - One street connects many neighborhoods but not all neighborhoods are the same.

Act 3 | New Wineskins (37:07) - Kirk holds on to hope and fights for the soul of the city.

Credits (51:17)

Learn about Kirk's work with Kairos of San Francisco in the city's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Check out our website for a deeper dive into this episode, including pictures of our walk with Kirk and a spiritual exercise you can use to take what you heard deeper into your soul. You can download the exercise directly here.

Also: try out our "walking" guided meditation. You can find it as a Soul Search bonus episode on this streaming app or on our website.

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In this second episode of our "Welcome Your Life" series, we look at a vital, but often neglected, aspect of a healthy spirituality - wonder. As adults we tend to lose that unfiltered amazement of the world we had as children. Our agendas take over instead because we think wonder is a luxury we can no longer afford. But could it be that what we seem to have lost in our adult lives has never left us? And that recapturing wonder can reconnect us with what's always been most essential to us?

We'll visit with Lacy Finn Borgo and Steph Cheung to help us see why we've lost wonder and how to recover it.

Lacy is the author of Spiritual Conversations with Children and has other books in print and on the way related to spirituality and children. Find out more about her work at Good Dirt Ministries. Steph is on staff with InterVarsity.

Intro (0:00)

Act 1 | Kids Have Experiences (1:57) - Lacy says there's a lot adults can learn from kids about wonder.

Act 2 | Play (17:54) - An old practice we can all do to renew our sense of wonder.

Act 3 | Legos (32:16) - Steph Chung found a unique way to incorporate play into her career discernment.

Coda | A Grove of Aspens (50:51)

Credits (53:04)

Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Check out our website for a deeper dive into this episode, including a spiritual exercise and guided meditation you can use to take what you heard deeper into your soul. We also have a blog post about connecting with your inner child.

Soul Search is a 501c3 non-profit committed to your process of self-discovery, so you experience greater freedom, spontaneity and love in life. Our work is made possible by your support. If you like what you've heard, consider making a donation today.

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Let us know what you think about the podcast. I'd love to hear from you! Email me at seth@thesoulsearch.org.