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Experience
the Spiritual Exercises

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About My Life in God’s Project

My Life in God’s Project is an updated, contemporary adaptation of St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. This retreat experience—made in the midst of your daily life—will invite you to strengthen your relationship with God, to discover God’s desires for you & the world, and to better understand who God is calling you to become.

With over 30 weeks of daily streaming audio reflections and prayer prompts, you can take this retreat experience with you wherever you go! Subscribers access content through a mobile app (iOS & Android) or through a web browser.

The team at Spiritual Grounding developed My Life in God's Project with the aim of making this ancient devotional text accessible to modern audiences. We designed this experience to be:

  • Relatable—we avoid theological jargon and use a simple, accessible style.

  • Relevant—we invite listeners to grapple with both the beauty and brokenness of the modern world.

  • Relational—we remind listeners to not only think about their relationship with God but also their relationships with friends, family, the poor and marginalized, and even the created world.

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Sample Reflections & Prayer Prompts

  • The Principle & Foundation is the opening prayer of “My Life in God’s Project.” Retreat participants are invited to pray this prayer at the beginning of each daily prayer period. Listen here.

  • Retreat participants are invited to pray the “examen” prayer daily during their retreat using the following steps:

    1. Awareness: Call to mind God’s presence and ask for an open heart 

    2. Review: Review the day for the various events, conversations, and situations you encountered.

    3. Thanksgiving: Name the gifts, graces, and the moments you felt God was most present in and thank God for each.

    4. Sorry: Be honest with yourself about the things that didn’t go to plan—the frustrations, anxieties, and moments you behaved in a way you wish you hadn’t. Consider whether you need to forgive someone and in what ways you might need to ask God for forgiveness.

    5. Yes: Focus on the day ahead by saying yes to whatever it may hold, and asking for whatever support you need for the situations and people you may encounter. 

    When you take the first letters to each step of this examen, you find a simple acronym: ARTSY. The Spiritual Grounding team likes the term ARTSY, since it serves as a reminder of God’s invitation to become a co-creator of your life and your role in God’s Project.

  • Lovers often write and sing love songs to their beloved. You are God’s beloved—can you received God’s love song? Listen here.

  • When they met at the burning bush, God told Moses he was on holy ground. Where are the spaces and places in your life that have been holy? Listen here.

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Here’s what people are saying.

  • “This was a fantastic resource that led me through the Spiritual Exercises. Not only did it allow me to deeply contemplate Scripture and travel through Jesus's life, but it gave me the opportunity to reflect on other texts and historical and current events in relation to my spirituality. Through the Spiritual Exercises and this resource, I was able to explore all facets of my life and faith and make the decision to commit my life to God's Project each day.”

    —participant

  • "Lauren Schwer and Oliver Goodrich have created an Ignatian resource which will be a valuable tool for people at every point in the cycle of spiritual life. These two have years of study of, practical experience in, and passion for The Spiritual Exercises and are using all of that to creatively, and faithfully, interpret The Exercises in our current context. Lauren and Oliver are the next generation of guides in the Ignatian tradition and are using the tools at their disposal to make this tradition come alive in new ways."

    —Rev. Jason Downer, SJ