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by Patrice Gerideau
Welcome to SoulWork Sanctuary, a podcast for those ready to do what Katie Cannon called “the work our soul must have.”Hosted by Rev. Dr. Patrice Gerideau — writer, theologian, and contemplative — this podcast offers soundbite-sized sanctuary moments through scripture, reflection, and contemplative practice.Each episode is an invitation to pause, breathe, and notice God’s presence in the midst of ordinary life. Whether you are weary of always being the “strong one,” longing for rest, or seeking a deeper way of living and leading from the inside out, this space is for you.Step inside. Do the work your soul must have.
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- 4 days ago12 min
e95 Sabbath Invitation: Silence
Show Notese95 Sabbath Invitation: SilenceIn the final episode of the Sabbath series, we return to the woman Jesus healed and examine what happened after the miracle. When the religious leaders challenged Jesus' decision to heal on the Sabbath, Jesus reminded them that compassion and freedom were always at the heart of God's law.Through this passage, we discover that Jesus not only heals the woman—He restores her identity by calling her a "daughter of Abraham." Her healing was not just about what was removed from her life; it was about who she was always meant to be.We also learn that sometimes the best response is silence. When God has transformed our lives, we do not always have to defend, explain, or convince others. The evidence of God's work can be seen through the freedom, joy, and transformation He creates in us.Opening PrayerGracious God, we come today asking for the wisdom to trust Your work in our lives. When others misunderstand us, remind us that You know the truth. When others question our freedom, remind us that You are the One who set us free. Help us rest in the identity You have given us, and trust that the work You begin in us. Will speak for itself. In Jesus' name, amen.Key TakeawaysThrough the woman's Sabbath encounter with Jesus, we learn:Jesus does not just remove our burdens; He restores our identity.God sees people differently than we often do. Where others saw a problem, Jesus saw a daughter.The rules of religion can never replace the love and mercy of God.We do not always have to defend what God has done in our lives. Sometimes our transformed lives speak for themselves.When we recognize the presence and power of Jesus, the proper response is joy.As we close this Sabbath series, may we remember:Jesus still sees us, speaks to us, touches us, and sets us free.Go Deeper: Notes for the JourneyIf you desire to go deeper this week, I invite you to join my newsletter, Notes for the Journey. Subscribers receive additional resources—guided reflections, Scripture, and practices that are not shared on the podcast or in these notes. It’s a quiet space to continue this work with God, slowly and prayerfully, throughout the week.[Join here]If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re welcome to support it here.Until next time, may God bless and keep you, may God’s face shine upon you, and may God grant you peace as you continue your SoulWork.Disclaimer: The content shared on the SoulWork Sanctuary podcast is for informational and inspirational purposes only. While I am an ordained minister and trained spiritual director, I am not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This podcast does not provide medical or mental health advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. Please seek support from a qualified provider if needed.
- 1 weeks ago11 min
e94 Sabbath Invitation: Response
Show NotesThis month we are in a series called Sabbath Invitation. We will be looking at Sabbath through the story of the crippled woman found in Luke 13:10-17. This week, our Sabbath invitation is Response.Breath PrayerInhale: Jesus we thank you Exhale: For being our HealerOpening PrayerGracious God, we come today asking for hearts that recognize Your presence. Keep us from becoming so attached to our own plans that we miss Your perfect timing. Turn our eyes toward Jesus, the One who still sees, still speaks, still touches, and still heals. May our response to Your work always be worship. In Jesus' name, amen.Text"Immediately she straightened up and praised God. Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, 'There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.'" (Luke 13:13b–14)Key TakeawaysThe same miracle produced two very different responses. The woman praised God, while the synagogue leader protested.God's timing does not have to fit our expectations. Jesus healed when He chose, reminding us that His timeline is always better than our own.When we keep our eyes on rules, opinions, or traditions, we can miss the Healer standing right in front of us.Not everyone will celebrate what God is doing in our lives. Our responsibility is not to please everyone, but to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus.A life transformed by Christ should respond with gratitude, worship, and praise.Go Deeper: Notes for the JourneyIf you desire to go deeper this week, I invite you to join my newsletter, Notes for the Journey. Subscribers receive additional resources—guided reflections, Scripture, and practices that are not shared on the podcast or in these notes. It’s a quiet space to continue this work with God, slowly and prayerfully, throughout the week.[Join here]If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re welcome to support it here.Until next time, may God bless and keep you, may God’s face shine upon you, and may God grant you peace as you continue your SoulWork.Disclaimer: The content shared on the SoulWork Sanctuary podcast is for informational and inspirational purposes only. While I am an ordained minister and trained spiritual director, I am not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This podcast does not provide medical or mental health advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. Please seek support from a qualified provider if needed.
- 2 weeks ago10 min
e93 Sabbath Invitation: Connection
Show NotesThis month we are in a series called Sabbath Invitation. We will be looking at Sabbath through the story of the crippled woman found in Luke 13:10-17. This week, our Sabbath invitation is Connection.Breath PrayerInhale: Jesus we thank youExhale: For seeing usOpening PrayerGracious God,We come today asking to be seenNot for what we have doneOr what we have failed to doBut because you already see usThrough the eyes of loveSpeak to usTouch usAnd make us wholeIn Jesus' name,Amen.TextWhen Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. —Luke 13:12-13Key TakeawaysThrough the crippled woman's story we learn:Jesus saw her, even though nothing in the text suggests she saw him first. Jesus spoke to her, and his word broke her stronghold. Jesus touched her, and his touch healed her body.She may not have known Jesus was even there. But he saw her. And when Jesus sees us, everything changes.No matter what stronghold we carry, God sees us one way — through the eyes of love.Go Deeper: Notes for the JourneyIf you desire to go deeper this week, I invite you to join my newsletter, Notes for the Journey. Subscribers receive additional resources—guided reflections, Scripture, and practices that are not shared on the podcast or in these notes. It’s a quiet space to continue this work with God, slowly and prayerfully, throughout the week.[Join here]If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re welcome to support it here.Until next time, may God bless and keep you, may God’s face shine upon you, and may God grant you peace as you continue your SoulWork.Disclaimer: The content shared on the SoulWork Sanctuary podcast is for informational and inspirational purposes only. While I am an ordained minister and trained spiritual director, I am not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This podcast does not provide medical or mental health advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. Please seek support from a qualified provider if needed.
- 3 weeks ago21 min
e92 Sabbath Invitation: Show Up
SoulWork NotesThis month we are in a series called, Sabbath Invitation. We will be looking at Sabbath through the story of the crippled women found in Luke 13:10-17. This week, our sabbath invitation is Unburden.Breath PrayerInhale: God I come to youExhale: With all I am carryingOpening PrayerGracious God,We come today with all our burdensThose we’ve been carrying for a little whileAnd those we have been carrying so longThey have become part of usHelp us to hear your voiceAnd learn to unburdened those thingsThat come between where we are and where you desire we beIn Jesus’ name,Amen.TextOn a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. -Luke 13:10-11Key TakeawaysThrough the crippled woman story we learn:Strongholds skew our posture.Strongholds skew our perspective.Strongholds skew our progress.Although her life was skewed by an 18-year stronghold, she was not without hope. She showed up at the synagogue. She may not have even notice Jesus’ feet. She may not have been like the woman with the issue of blood, straining to touch the hem of his garment. She may not have been like Mary, getting her healing at the feet of Jesus. She may have just seen another pair of feet like all the other feet she had seen in the past 18 years. She may have missed Jesus sitting right there in her presence. She was in the presence of God and probably didn’t know it. However, she showed up.Sometimes, that is all we can do - come to the place of worship. Sometimes, we can only get to our position to serve or get to our favorite pew. Sometimes, all we can do is come. Sometimes, all we can do is show up.Guess what, sometimes, that is all God needs - for us to shuffle along until we show up where he needs us to show up.SoulWorkConsider the following questions during your quiet time or in your journaling.What stronghold have been carrying?How has that stronghold skewed your posture, perspective, and or vision?Where is God asking you to show up?What would life look like if you showed up where God is waiting?SoulWork for WritersAs one called to serve others through writing, sit with your answers to our SoulWork questions.Then, ask, what can you say to encourage you audience to address their strongholds.Don’t worry about the final product, just allow God to speak to you on their behalf through your writing.Then, when you are led, shape the message into a final form - blog post, word of proclamation, book, etc.Then, when you are led, share the message.Closing Blessing PrayerMay you always be aware of God’s presence and goodness.May you never forget God’s faithfulness.May you trust in the God who loves you and longs to lift the burdens you carry.May your heart stay connected to the one who grace is greater than any strongholdMay you ever see your lift through the lens of God’s love.In Jesus’ name,Amen.Go Deeper: Notes for the JourneyIf you desire to go deeper this week, I invite you to join my newsletter, Notes for the Journey. Subscribers receive additional resources—guided reflections, Scripture, and practices that are not shared on the podcast or in these notes. It’s a quiet space to continue this work with God, slowly and prayerfully, throughout the week.[Join here]If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re welcome to support it here.Until next time, may God bless and keep you, may God’s face shine upon you, and may God grant you peace as you continue your SoulWork.Disclaimer: The content shared on the SoulWork Sanctuary podcast is for informational and inspirational purposes only. While I am an ordained minister and trained spiritual director, I am not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This podcast does not provide medical or mental health advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. Please seek support from a qualified provider if needed.
- Jun 28, 20269 min
e91 Echoing Silence: Resting
SoulWork Notese91 Echoing Silence: RestingAs you move through this week,notice where you are still striving.Not in the obvious places —but in the quiet ones.The way you measure your prayer time.The way you evaluate your stillness.The way you turn even rest into something to get right.We are not a resting people.And that restlessness follows useven into the presence of God.But rest — true rest —is not something we achieve.It is something we receive.It is the posture of a soulthat has stopped needing to be in control.Not because everything is resolved,but because the One who holds all thingsis trustworthy.This month, we have entered.We have dwelled. We have listened.Now, we simply rest.We let the silence hold us.We trust that our open handsare their own kind of prayer.A PRAYER TO CARRYGod of rest, I release what I have been carrying — the striving, the measuring, the need to get this right. Hold me. That is enough. In Jesus’ name, amen.Go Deeper: Notes for the JourneyIf you desire to go deeper this week, I invite you to join my newsletter, Notes for the Journey. Subscribers receive additional resources—guided reflections, Scripture, and practices that are not shared on the podcast or in these notes. It’s a quiet space to continue this work with God, slowly and prayerfully, throughout the week.[Join here]If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re welcome to support it here.Until next time, may God bless and keep you, may God’s face shine upon you, and may God grant you peace as you continue your SoulWork.Disclaimer: The content shared on the SoulWork Sanctuary podcast is for informational and inspirational purposes only. While I am an ordained minister and trained spiritual director, I am not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This podcast does not provide medical or mental health advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. Please seek support from a qualified provider if needed.
- Jun 21, 20268 min
e90 Echoing Silence: Listening
SoulWork Notese90 Echoing Silence: ListeningAs you move through this week,pay attention to what you almost missed.The thought that surfaced and slipped away.The emotion that rose and was quickly buried.The quiet nudge you talked yourself out of.God is not always loud.And we have grown so accustomed to noisethat we sometimes mistake God’s silence for absence —when it may simply bean invitation to listen more carefully.Holy listening is not about receiving a word on demand.It is about becoming the kind of personwho notices.Who slows down long enoughto let what is already presentrise to the surface.This week, don’t chase an answer.Just remain available.What God wants you to hearwill find you.A PRAYER TO CARRYGod who speaks in whispers, Open my ears — not just to sound, but to the quiet languages of Your presence. Teach me to listen with my whole self. In Jesus’ name, amen.Go Deeper: Notes for the JourneyIf you desire to go deeper this week, I invite you to join my newsletter, Notes for the Journey. Subscribers receive additional resources—guided reflections, Scripture, and practices that are not shared on the podcast or in these notes. It’s a quiet space to continue this work with God, slowly and prayerfully, throughout the week.[Join here]If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re welcome to support it here.Until next time, may God bless and keep you, may God’s face shine upon you, and may God grant you peace as you continue your SoulWork.Disclaimer: The content shared on the SoulWork Sanctuary podcast is for informational and inspirational purposes only. While I am an ordained minister and trained spiritual director, I am not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This podcast does not provide medical or mental health advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. Please seek support from a qualified provider if needed.
- Jun 14, 202610 min
e89 Echoing Silence: Dwelling
SoulWork Notese89 Echoing Silence: DwellingAs you move through this week,notice how quickly you leave.Not just in silence —but in prayer, in conversation, in rest.How often do you arrive somewhereonly to begin planning your exit?Most of us have never been taught to dwell.We have been taught to produce, to move, to accomplish.Stillness feels like a luxury we haven’t earned.But dwelling in God is not laziness.It is not wasted time.It is the slow, sacred workof letting yourself be known —not by what you bring,but by simply being present.This week, stay a little longer than is comfortable.With God. With yourself. With the silence.Let presence be enough.A PRAYER TO CARRYGod who remains, Forgive me for the ways I rush even You. Teach me to stay — past the point of having something to offer, past the point of knowing what I’m waiting for. Let me find You in the staying. In Jesus’ name, amen.Go Deeper: Notes from the SanctuaryIf you desire to go deeper this week, I invite you to join my newsletter, Notes from the Sanctuary. Subscribers receive additional SoulWork resources—guided reflections, Scripture, and practices that are not shared on the podcast or in these notes. It’s a quiet space to continue this work with God, slowly and prayerfully, throughout the week.[Join here]If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re welcome to support it here.Until next time, may God bless and keep you, may God’s face shine upon you, and may God grant you peace as you continue your SoulWork.Disclaimer: The content shared on the SoulWork Sanctuary podcast is for informational and inspirational purposes only. While I am an ordained minister and trained spiritual director, I am not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This podcast does not provide medical or mental health advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. Please seek support from a qualified provider if needed.
- Jun 7, 202610 min
e88 Echoing Silence: Entering
SoulWork Notese88 Echoing Silence: EnteringAs you move through this week,notice what it costs you to get quiet.Not to judge it.Not to fix it.But to simply be honest about what stands between you and stillness.Entering silence is rarely as simple as it sounds.There is always something pulling us back —a task unfinished, a worry unresolved,the noise we have learned to live inside of.And yet, the invitation remains.Come.Not when everything is settled.Not when you finally have the time.But now — as you are, with what you’re carrying.This is what it means to enter:to choose presence over productivity,to believe that God is already waitingon the other side of the threshold.You don’t have to arrive empty.You just have to arrive.A PRAYER TO CARRYLord, Thank You for the gift of stillness —even when I have to fight my way to it. Meet me at the threshold. Receive whatever I bring. And teach me, slowly, that entering is its own act of faith. In Jesus’ name, amen.Go Deeper: Notes from the SanctuaryIf you desire to go deeper this week, I invite you to join my newsletter, Notes from the Sanctuary. Subscribers receive additional SoulWork resources—guided reflections, Scripture, and practices that are not shared on the podcast or in these notes. It’s a quiet space to continue this work with God, slowly and prayerfully, throughout the week.[Join here]If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re welcome to support it here.Until next time, may God bless and keep you, may God’s face shine upon you, and may God grant you peace as you continue your SoulWork.Disclaimer: The content shared on the SoulWork Sanctuary podcast is for informational and inspirational purposes only. While I am an ordained minister and trained spiritual director, I am not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This podcast does not provide medical or mental health advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. Please seek support from a qualified provider if needed.
About SoulWork Sanctuary
Welcome to SoulWork Sanctuary, a podcast for those ready to do what Katie Cannon called “the work our soul must have.”Hosted by Rev. Dr. Patrice Gerideau — writer, theologian, and contemplative — this podcast offers soundbite-sized sanctuary moments through scripture, reflection, and contemplative practice.Each episode is an invitation to pause, breathe, and notice God’s presence in the midst of ordinary life. Whether you are weary of always being the “strong one,” longing for rest, or seeking a deeper way of living and leading from the inside out, this space is for you.Step inside. Do the work your soul must have.
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