Jacci Turner and Tumbled People
Feb 12, 2024
Jacci Turner is an author, spiritual director, trainer of spiritual directors, and a retried trauma therapist. Today, Jacci shares her story of discovering the Lord at camp, serving as a trainer for campus ministers for decades, and how her growing understanding of God’s love changed everything. She lost her position and became an outcast from a community she loved. Jacci shares how she got through that difficult season and how spiritual direction helped her see the way through the spiritual desert. Jacci’s story reminds us that we all get a little tumbled by life but that the Lord makes something beautiful out of us all in the end.
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Stories Jacci shared:
- Growing up as a daughter of a produce
- Finding Jesus “for the first time” as a child
- Praying for Jesus to take away her nightmares
- Forgetting her relationship with God as a teenager
- Giving her life to Christ as a teenager at camp
- Going to college and learning Scripture
- Growing in love for the LGBTQ+ community
- Leaving her organization by invitation
- The pain of becoming an outcast because of her position
- The dreams she had during this painful season
- Starting a group called Shalom for church wholeness
- Experiencing Jesus even through the difficult times
- The identities she had to let go in order to get through the spiritual desert
- How a spiritual director helped her through her issues with the church
- What spiritual direction is and why it is valuable at every stage of the journey
- Spiritual cairns in the desert
Great quotes from Jacci:
If I never get to Hollywood, I still want to follow you.
As we got to know them, they didn’t become our gay friends. They became just our friends.
Look to hope. Find hope in people, in God, in the books, in Scripture, in the forest, wherever you can find it.
Resources we mentioned (affiliate links):
- Jacci’s website
- Tumbled People: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Your Faith by Jacci Turner
- The Gravity Center
- Yes And…Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr
- Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World by John Philip Newell
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