#196 The Importance of Finding Wonder in All With Lacy Borgo

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Lacy Finn Borgo teaches and provides spiritual direction for the Renovaré Institute and the Doctor of Ministry in Spiritual Direction at Fuller Theological Seminary, as well as other retreats and conferences. She is the author of Life with God for Children, a curriculum for spiritual formation with children. She is the coauthor of Good Dirt: A Devotional for the Spiritual Formation of Families, which is built around the Seasons of the Church.

Lacy also provides spiritual direction for children and their parents at Haven House, which is a transitional housing facility for homeless families.

Lacy holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Teaching Certificate from University of Texas, Permian Basin, a Masters of Science in Education from State University, New York, and is a graduate of the Renovaré Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation. She recently graduated with a Doctor of Ministry degree in Leadership and Spiritual Formation from Portland Seminary, formerly known as George Fox Evangelical Seminary.

Her family includes two teenaged daughters, one husband, two parents, four dogs, six cats, five goats, two horses, and numerous chickens all within a quarter mile radius. She says, “My greatest joy and honor is to walk with others as they seek to walk with God. Sometimes that looks like teaching or leading retreats, other times it looks like spiritual direction but mostly it looks like friendship.”

I'm absolutely delighted to welcome the wonderful Lacy Borgo back to the show today. Lacy shares her insights and viewpoint on the importance of embracing wonder and remaining in touch with our profound humanity, welcoming all our experiences, even the challenging and painful ones.

 
“I knew I wasn’t alone, and I had a sense that I was loved.”
— Lacy Borgo, at 5 Years Old
“A spiritual direction is really a practice of accompanying another as they become awake to the divine.”
— Lacy Borgo
“We’re really moving in a spiral, into the heart and the divine.”
— Lacy Borgo

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RESOURCES:

Lacy’s favorite fiction books:

  • Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis 

  • The Light Princess by George MacDonald (favorite copy has illustrations by Maurice Sendak)

  • Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo 

  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

  • The Heavenly Village by Cynthia Rylant (a beautiful book that engages existential and afterlife questions)

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