Spiritual Life Mapping

Welcome to Spiritual Life Mapping

We live in unsettling times marked by a widening national polarization, global conflicts, the continuing effects of the pandemic, and the ongoing challenge of a racial reckoning. So let me say a word about what it might mean to engage in Spiritual Life Mapping during these extraordinary days.

Spiritual Life Mapping is a spiritual disciple that offers a way to ground yourself amidst the chaos and the uncertainties by reviewing the course of your life in a creative way. In this life review you will be invited to recall those spiritual experiences that have helped to shape you into who you are today.

“Interrupt Anxiety with Gratitude.” During the height of the pandemic, I saw this phrase on my Instagram feed, and it reminded me that any spiritual discipline or practice can be seen as an interruption. Now more than ever, it would seem, we do need to interrupt the anxiety that can become our constant companion. The life mapping experience can become a creative “interruption”—something of an extended prayer—that moves you from a life review into a place of deep gratitude.

In Spiritual Life Mapping you may also identify places where you have gone astray, taking a path you may later have come to regret. Under the guidance of the Spirit, in Spiritual Life Mapping you may discover a way that leads to healing within and with others.

So Spiritual Life Mapping can be more than a look at the past, it can also open a way forward into to a more fulfilling life of compassionate engagement that is rooted and grounded in love.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. — 1 John 4:7

Spiritual Discernment and Places

The places we visit on our outward journey through life can become etched in our minds as markers or reminders of our inner spiritual journey by evoking memories of singular experiences that happened in these places where a surplus of meaning ushered us into that dimension or realm we call the spiritual.

This surplus of meaning can take many forms: it might be described as a sense of wonder at the beauty of creation, a glimpse into the holy mystery of life, an awakening to a deep love, or an experience of being called or converted.

Spiritual Life Mapping begins with an honest examination into the deeper dimensions of life.  Through the act of mapping, what will come out of that inward gaze will be a visual display of a portion of our spiritual life story. 

I have found that in Spiritual Life Mapping one’s life story can be claimed in a new and visually arresting way. Perhaps we can then see how this life story of ours can become a gift to others. 

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Currently Spiritual Life Mapping is available as a workshop. It will eventually be available as a workbook.