Lisa Russell Ministries

Lisa Russell celebrates 7 years with us at ReStory in 2025! A gifted Storywork Coach, she is one of the ReStory Institute Level One triad facilitators and, out of her passion for addressing wounded female friendships, she has also designed the ReSisterhood group offered here. Lisa has limited spots available - learn more on her website. @lisarussellministries

Introduction: I am a Storywork Coach and Spiritual Director at ReStory Counseling (link in bio). I specialize in trauma focused narrative care, spiritual formation, spiritual abuse/ church hurt, foster/adoptive care and more. I see people individually, do group work and lead retreats. Some of my biggest passions are: ✅ Rewriting the narrative of female relationships ✅ Seeing the Church actually BE theChurch ✅ Fiercely loving the least of these ✅ Coming alongside people that are reclaiming what’s been lost, stolen, killed or destroyed in their stories. My disclaimers: ✅I’m not great with social media, but I’m trying. ✅I can be wildly inappropriate (I may or may not have said the phrase “spiritual masturbation” on a stage) 🤷‍♀️ ✅ I am a recovering people pleaser and learning to bless my humanity and capacity.

Great way to start a Tuesday morning.

Father Richard Rohr says that we need silence and solitude in order for our experiences to sink in to realizations.

Where and how are you getting solitude and silence lately?

Embrace your inner l***r.

Loving this song right now!

"Teach us to plant in the sorrow
And trust the rain will come
Teach us to lie down in peace
And to rest when the day is done"

When the Well Runs Dry Liv Douglas · Single · 2020 · 1 songs.

Walter Brueggemann (b. 1933)

Marked by Ashes

Ruler of the Night, Guarantor of the day…
This day — a gift from you.
This day — like none other you have ever given, or we have ever received.
This Wednesday dazzles us with gift and newness and possibility.
This Wednesday burdens us with the tasks of the day, for we are already halfway home
halfway back to committees and memos,
halfway back to calls and appointments,
halfway on to next Sunday,
halfway back, half frazzled, half expectant,
half turned toward you, half rather not.

This Wednesday is a long way from Ash Wednesday,
but all our Wednesdays are marked by ashes —
we begin this day with that taste of ash in our mouth:
of failed hope and broken promises,
of forgotten children and frightened women,
we ourselves are ashes to ashes, dust to dust;
we can taste our mortality as we roll the ash around on our tongues.

We are able to ponder our ashness with
some confidence, only because our every Wednesday of ashes
anticipates your Easter victory over that dry, flaky taste of death.

On this Wednesday, we submit our ashen way to you —
you Easter parade of newness.
Before the sun sets, take our Wednesday and Easter us,
Easter us to joy and energy and courage and freedom;
Easter us that we may be fearless for your truth.
Come here and Easter our Wednesday with
mercy and justice and peace and generosity.

We pray as we wait for the Risen One who comes soon.

If you resonate with the second picture, you are not alone. Our faith journeys are a beautiful mess to embrace.

Don't forget to rest your soul dear ones.

"Mary Comforts Eve"
One of my favorite pieces of art.

Take a moment (no really, like a few minutes) staring at this image.

What sticks out to you?
What is God inviting you into after reflecting on this?

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