It’s nearly Easter. And I want to talk about someone today on the podcast who inspires me with her life and art and work.

As you know, I have been revisiting my favorite spiritual classics … books written by authors who have fought the good fight and remained faithful to the end. There’s just so much we can learn from them.

This week I’m introducing you to Corita Kent.

1. Corita lived from 1918 to 1986. She was an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice. 
2. At 18 years old, she entered the religious order Immaculate Heart of Mary, eventually teaching in and then heading up the art department at Immaculate Heart College. 
3. She created hundreds of beautiful serigraphs because she wanted her art to be affordable and widely available. She didn’t number any of her works because she didn’t want any one print to be more valuable than the others.

I have been collecting her work via collaborations with author Leslie Brandt. These are charming books with Corita’s art AND Brandt’s paraphrase of sections of the Bible. 

My hope is that we stop running from God and follow after Him. I pray you remember that God loves you and is just waiting for you to trust Him … and I pray that you do.

SHOW NOTES

• Get a copy of Jesus Now by Leslie Brandt & Corita Kent.
• Watch this video about Corita.
• Visit this website devoted to Corita, her art, and the Corita Art Center.
• Learn more about Community First! Village, Young Lives, and Heart of Texas Pregnancy Resource Center.
• Learn more about other ACF Ministry Partners here.
• Get your ticket to Soul Care Saturday on May 8, 2021!
• Follow me on Instagram.
• Download the FREE Soul Care Kit that I created just for you.
• Get encouragement in your inbox each week: Sign up for my newsletter!
• Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online.
• Listen to more of Sara Davis Regan’s music.

Order your copy of The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life!

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A sweet listener emailed me and asked if I would feature Elisabeth Elliot on this season of the podcast … well here she is!

As you know, I have been revisiting my favorite spiritual classics … books written by authors who have fought the good fight and remained faithful to the end. There’s just so much we can learn from them.

Elisabeth Elliot is an amazing woman who lived a faithful life, and I am so excited to share her words with you. Two books I want you to know about are Let Me Be a Woman and Discipline: The Glad Surrender. Here are a few interesting things about her:

1. Elisabeth was born December 27, 1926, in Brussels, Belgium, where her parents served as missionaries.
2. While at the college, she met Jim Elliot. After graduation, Elisabeth went on a missionary expedition to Ecuador with other students from Wheaton, including Jim Elliot. In 1953, Jim and Elisabeth were married and continued to serve in Ecuador. They had a daughter, Valerie Elliot Shepard.
3. Jim was killed by the Auca tribe in Eastern Ecuador. Elisabeth did not give up on the people of the tribe and she continued to live in the region with her daughter and Rachel Saint, the sister of another one of the missionaries killed by the Auca tribe.
4. From 1988 to 2001, Elisabeth could be heard on a daily radio program called Gateway to Joy, produced by the Good News Broadcasting Association of Lincoln, NE. Today, we can listen to reruns of the program on the Bible Broadcasting Network.

Elisabeth was not afraid of tackling the hard things and speaking the truth. She experienced tragedy and felt fear but she lived with faithfulness and courage because she had this outlook on her beautiful life: “The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.” Elisabeth also said, “The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”

My hope for you and for me is that we let Christ change our hearts and make us into the women he wants us to be. And I pray that you can live faithfully and fearlessly because you trust God with your one beautiful life.

SHOW NOTES

• Get a copy of Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot.
• Discipline: The Glad Surrender by Elisabeth Elliot.
• Listen to Elisabeth on the Bible Broadcasting Network.
• Learn more about Mobile Loaves and Fishes and Community First! Village in Austin, TX.
• Shop the Community Art House! All the arts and crafts are created by the residents of Community First! Village.
• Follow me on Instagram.
• Download the FREE Soul Care Kit that I created just for you.
• Get encouragement in your inbox each week: Sign up for my newsletter!
• Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online.
• Listen to more of Sara Davis Regan’s music.

If there is one thing I learned over the last year, it is the importance of stepping back from the news and media to re-engage in a habit of reading spiritual classics. The authors who I’ll be featuring on the podcast have fought the good fight and remained faithful to the end. There’s just so much we can learn from them. I want to invite you to come along with me this season and dive into the wisdom of these faithful followers of Jesus.

This is a book that was a stalwart for me while in college at Baylor and I still rely on it today. It is God Calling edited by A.J. Russell. Here are a few things interesting things about this book.

1. A.J. Russell was an editor for a London newspaper in the early 20th century. While we have him to thank for the book, Russell did not write God Calling.
2. Two women met every day to pray and listen for God together. Then they would write down what they heard God say. Those pages became God Calling. There is an entry for every day of the year.
3. The first copy of God Calling was published in 1935. Read more info about the history of the book here.

My hope is that you take time for prayer and to be alone with God. I pray that you listen for His voice and hear what He has to say to you. I pray that you know that God is with you and that you let that knowledge bring you contentment and fill you with rapture.

SHOW NOTES

• Get a copy of God Calling edited by A.J. Russell.
• Learn more about Mobile Loaves and Fishes and Community First! Village in Austin, TX.
• Shop the Community Art House! All the arts and crafts are created by the residents of Community First! Village.
• Follow me on Instagram.
• Download the FREE Soul Care Kit that I created just for you.
• Get encouragement in your inbox each week: Sign up for my newsletter!
• Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online.
• Listen to more of Sara Davis Regan’s music.

Order your copy of The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life!

My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you’re craving. Get a copy of Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation