TLC News
“Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out… spurring each other on…” —
Hebrews 10:25 AMP
Enter a Spacious Space
Retreat Details Description: TLC is offering a one-day online retreat on the spiritual practice of journaling. This will be a chance to step away from the noise of every day life and enter a spacious pause. We invite you to take time to listen, reflect and write...
In Season
The Psalms invite me to travel the roads of my own soul and discover God there. Some offer a comforting, gentle space where I can relax with God, basking in his loving gaze. Others give voice to the cacophony of emotions roiling in my chest, providing a map to release...
My Spiritual Transformation
A Manufactured Spiritual Life In his book Yielding to God, Philip Britts says that “spiritual experience, whether it be of faith, hope (or expectancy) or love, is something we cannot manufacture...we can only receive. Spiritual experience, if it is of God, will indeed...
Drawn into the Mystery
First Day of Class Like most students this time of year, I was nervous to start my first day of class. Stalled at my front door, I stared at a framed picture on the wall. A few years prior I had purchased this poster in a small, quaint village in St. Rémy-de-Provence....
Do What You Can, Not What You Can’t
Who are you to say yes to this?! From the beginning it has been hard to wrap my brain and my heart around an image of TLC without Jeanie Hoover firmly at the helm. As she introduced the idea of me taking on leadership in her place, I found a clear and distinct voice...
A Taste of TLC
Are you longing for more? Learn to listen with Kingdom discernment to God, to self and to others. Come take a breath. Join us for a mid-day mini retreat online -- an introduction to listening practices that invite us to lean in and listen for God, to check-in with...
The Clock is Running
I've been thinking a lot about time. Since retiring from my role as Executive Director at TLC, I've been thinking a lot about time. I once heard that John writes his Gospel as if there is an invisible timer behind the scenes, and in the first miracle, that timer...
To Everything There is a Season
Dear Friends, The longer I live, the more the verses in Ecclesiastes 3 make sense to me, “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” And continuing from the Message Translation, “a right time to hold on and another to let go" (Ecc....
TLC Info Session for Cohort VII
Information Session for Cohort VII, Starting Fall 2025
April 2025 recorded information session about the upcoming 7th cohort for Transformational Listening Center’s 2-year certificate program in spiritual direction…
My TLC Journey
I love this time of year - squeezing the warmth out of the long days of waning summer. I also love this time of year because I can spot the occasional burnished tree, the early birds whose leaves begin to turn long before the calendar tells us autumn is here. Soon we...
The Classroom is Always Open
I recently celebrated my 70th birthday, and I’ve been thinking about my life. I realize (almost with a shock) that I have fewer days ahead of me than behind. Reflecting back I have the image of my life as a classroom. This classroom image gives me a new perspective on...
TLC Launches Cohort VI in Fall 2023
We are excited to announce the Transformational Listening Center will launch Cohort VI in Fall 2023! Bi-weekly classes will meet online with an option to participate in the three one-day retreats in-person in the Chicagoland area. We will hold an informational session...
