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Most people struggle to connect with their souls while staying engaged in the practicals of life. Analogue works as a field guide, bringing together art, thoughts, and journal prompts to help you pay attention to your own soul.

Each issue holds 25 pages of journal excerpts, observances, stories and experiences, tools for you to engage the soul, prompts for reflection, mainly small adjustments you can make in your life to be more soulful and aware.

So, if you are:

  • bothered by how fast-paced and reactive your life has become

  • looking for ways to live both plugged in and pulled back from the digital age

  • craving moments that connect with your soul, while staying engaged in the practical

Then Analogue is for you.

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Issue 1 • Seeding

Of course we start our journey here, with seeds. With hints of how to tend our souls… With sketches from the beauty of an everyday world. With notes and questions and experiences that all tie together. And even though these seeds began their own work in my life, they are also for you.

Issue 2 • Nowful

If you…

  • want to shake that “where was I?” feeling…

  • are seeking ways to solidify your soul’s focus…

  • would like a greater sense of the Sacred in everyday moments…

Then let’s take a walk together.

Issue 3 • Soul Food

Let’s listen. Really listen. Not to me; to you.

…right there, in those quiet moments, that thought will sneak into our minds so quickly you might miss it if you’re not expecting it.

That one. The one that starts with “I want…” THAT’s what we’re listening for, right there. Let’s get still and listen to our longings.

 

Issue 04 • Self-Authoring

“Who am I and does my life truly reflect that?”

Do those words strike a familiar chord in your soul? This is the “adulthood” question. It is quite different from the young adult question of “Who am I supposed to be, and how can my life reflect that?”

See the difference?


Issue 05 • Soul Seasons

Does the soul have seasons?

Okay, maybe not like the four seasons of a calendar year, but a less predictable, less rhythmic “so this is where I am” type of awareness?

So, I fit the pieces together myself, looking for patterns, letting the “asking” guide me to answers. Since then, I’ve recognized a few types of seasons in my life.

Issue 06 • Ask

Just ask—because it really is that simple. 

Questions can bring such clarity to our lives, yet we hesitate to engage uncertainty:

  • when unsure how to move forward in our creative process

  • when work, parenting, friendships, and life “balance” feel impossible

  • when we wake up with the soul-ache of spiritual growing pains

 

Issue 07 • Weeding

  • How do we handle those unplanned or unwanted developments in our lives that claim space and resources?

  • Do we learn from them, glean from them? Or do we try to squelch them?

  • Do we patiently observe before rejecting a difficult situation, watching for signs of hope, life, blessing?

Issue 08 • Holding On

You know when you’re out in particularly gusty weather, and the wind shifts to a different angle, suddenly your feet lose purchase and you fight to regain balance?

Last spring, the wind whipped from many angles for literal and figurative reasons. And my primary goal was to hold my family in balance through it all.

For now, let’s look at how to hold on in those storms...

Issue 09 • Disconnect

For too long, events in my little world ranged from confusing to shocking. Eventually I went into a bit of emotional quarantine, and I wasn’t sure what my “new normal” would look like once life settled down.

And here we are now, with a pandemic that has spread like wildfire across our globe.

We have much to process in these pages and in our lives.

 

Issue 11 • Holding On

What we will walk through in this issue is one of the scariest stretches of my adult life, yet it came wrapped in mercy. All mercy. I can say that now because I see it now. 

Issue 10 • Holding On

While I blossomed in some directions, I wilted in others. And all this newness felt scary and unsafe. When we enter new worlds, our attention remains on full alert at the novelty—our senses are heightened, taking it all in, not yet softened to our surroundings. It takes time to settle into the unfamiliar, doesn’t it?

 
 

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