In this final episode of Liminal Spaces, we step out from behind the microphone to introduce ourselves and reflect on the Liminal Spaces journey.

Meet Nick & Jamie

Jamie spent 15 years as a Biblical Studies teacher and teacher librarian, is finishing her MA in Theology and Culture, and is completing her first novel. Nick served as a church pastor for nearly 30 years and holds a master's degree in spiritual formation. Together we are a blended family with six young adult children, living in a small, remote, rain-soaked town on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

Series Recap

We journeyed through seven weeks exploring liminal spaces, those threshold places between the old and the new, using Israel's wilderness journey as our guide.

• Week 1: Defined liminal spaces and how Lent itself is an intentional liminal season.
• Week 2: Remembered Egypt and how good seasons can become places we must leave.
• Week 3: Entered the disorientation where old landmarks disappear.
• Week 4: Faced the long waiting, despair, and dark nights of the soul with Elijah.
• Week 5: Discovered that life and provision are possible in the wilderness.
• Week 6: Noticed signs of new life, pruning, and abiding.
• Week 7: Stood at the Jordan, looking back at God's faithfulness and forward to the Promised Land.
• The Triduum walked us through Holy Week: Maundy Thursday's new commandment, Good Friday at the cross, Holy Saturday's hidden work of God, and Easter Sunday's resurrection joy.

Key Points

• The trust and daily dependence we learn in the wilderness is the same trust we need in the Promised Land, even when life is good.
• God may be most powerfully at work when he appears most absent.
• When we are broken and in despair, God often speaks very quietly, as he did with Elijah.
• It is okay to honestly cry out and lament to God. He wants to be there with us.

What's Next

A Slow Journey Through Ephesians begins October 2026. We are also turning A Slow Journey Through John into a devotional book.

In the meantime, go back to episode one of A Slow Journey Through John, or check out our Rhythms of Life workbook on Amazon.

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Support Us

This podcast is produced by two people with no team and no budget. If this series meant something to you, support us at thewildway.ca.

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Thank you for journeying with us. See you in October.

Connect: podcast@thewildway.ca | @GoTheWildWay | thewildway.ca

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.
• Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon.

Special announcement from Nick and Jamie to follow today's meditation!

If you’ve it all the way through Liminal Spaces with us, and to the end of this Easter meditation, we are incredibly grateful for you, and we’d like to hear from you. We have a special bonus episode coming up in a couple of weeks, where we will share our reflections on this Liminal Spaces series.

We would love for you to be a part of that episode. If Liminal Spaces has been a blessing to you, would you please send us a voice note or a written note about how this podcast series has impacted you. You can send your responses to ⁠podcast@thewildway.ca⁠.

Make sure to include your first name and where you are listening from. We will play your message or share your words on our final podcast.

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The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide.

The Liminal Spaces Series is a contemplative journey through the Scriptures on the theme of wilderness, growth, and change. It was originally broadcast for the season of Lent, but it can be used at any time of the year.

We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you abide in the presence of Jesus and the Word of God, learn by studying the Scriptures, and go with intention to love the world. Each weekday is a 10-12 minute devotional, with the exception of the final four meditations (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday) which are slightly longer.

The Liminal Spaces bibliography can be found on our website.

Scriptures are taken from various translations, the most common being the Common English Bible (CEB), the English Standard Version (ESV), and the New Living Translation (NLT).

Music credits: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/tecnosine/europa. License code: JLBYXBPJKTIBGNWW

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.
• Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon.

Follow us on social media for weekly practices: @gothewildway

Contact us: podcast (at) thewildway.ca.

DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠. Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others.

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide.

The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.

“That evening Joseph of Arimathea came to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission to take it. There was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid...

Following Jewish burial customs, Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Jesus down from the cross, wrapped him in the cloth with spices, and laid him in the tomb that had been carved out of rock. The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed him. Joesph rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb, and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting in front of the tomb.”

~ combined Gospel accounts of Jesus burial

"He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison."

~ 1 Peter 3:18-19

"What does 'he ascended' mean except that he also descended into the lower regions of the earth? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe."

~ Ephesians 4:9-10

Jesus suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell on the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven…"

~ the Apostles' Creed

The Liminal Spaces Series is a contemplative journey through the Scriptures on the theme of wilderness, growth, and change. It was originally broadcast for the season of Lent, but it can be used at any time of the year.

We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you abide in the presence of Jesus and the Word of God, learn by studying the Scriptures, and go with intention to love the world. Each weekday is a 10-12 minute devotional, with the exception of the final four meditations (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday) which are slightly longer.

The Liminal Spaces bibliography can be found on our website.

Scriptures are taken from various translations, the most common being the Common English Bible (CEB), the English Standard Version (ESV), and the New Living Translation (NLT).

Music credits: Maksym Dudchyk on Pixabay. Used with permission.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.
• Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon.

Follow us on social media for weekly practices: @gothewildway

Contact us: podcast (at) thewildway.ca.

DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠. Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others.

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide.

The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.

16 Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified. The soldiers took Jesus prisoner. 17 Carrying his cross by himself, he went out to a place called Skull Place (in Aramaic, Golgotha). 18 That’s where they crucified him—and two others with him, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. ..

25 Jesus’ mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood near the cross. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that time on, this disciple took her into his home...

28 After this, knowing that everything was already completed, in order to fulfill the scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar full of sour wine was nearby, so the soldiers soaked a sponge in it, placed it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips. 30 When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “It is completed.” Bowing his head, he gave up his life.

~ excerpts from John 19

The Liminal Spaces Series is a contemplative journey through the Scriptures on the theme of wilderness, growth, and change. It was originally broadcast for the season of Lent, but it can be used at any time of the year.

We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you abide in the presence of Jesus and the Word of God, learn by studying the Scriptures, and go with intention to love the world. Each weekday is a 10-12 minute devotional, with the exception of the final four meditations (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday) which are slightly longer.

The Liminal Spaces bibliography can be found on our website.

Scriptures are taken from various translations, the most common being the Common English Bible (CEB), the English Standard Version (ESV), and the New Living Translation (NLT).

Music credits: Maksym Dudchyk on Pixabay. Used with permission.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.
• Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon.

Follow us on social media for weekly practices: @gothewildway

Contact us: podcast (at) thewildway.ca.

DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠. Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others.

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide.

The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.

"I give you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other. This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, when you love each other.”

~ John 13:34-35

“After he said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples and crossed over to the other side of the Kidron Valley. He and his disciples entered a garden there.”

~ John 18:1

“My Father, if it’s possible, take this cup of suffering away from me. However—not what I want but what you want.”

~ Matthew 26:39

The Liminal Spaces Series is a contemplative journey through the Scriptures on the theme of wilderness, growth, and change. It was originally broadcast for the season of Lent, but it can be used at any time of the year.

We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you abide in the presence of Jesus and the Word of God, learn by studying the Scriptures, and go with intention to love the world. Each weekday is a 10-12 minute devotional, with the exception of the final four meditations (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday) which are slightly longer.

The Liminal Spaces bibliography can be found on our website.

Scriptures are taken from various translations, the most common being the Common English Bible (CEB), the English Standard Version (ESV), and the New Living Translation (NLT).

Music credits: Maksym Dudchyk on Pixabay. Used with permission.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.
• Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon.

Follow us on social media for weekly practices: @gothewildway

Contact us: podcast (at) thewildway.ca.

DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠. Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others.

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide.

The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.

10 You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless the Lord your God in the wonderful land that he’s given you.

11 But watch yourself! Don’t forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commands or his case laws or his regulations that I am commanding you right now. 12 When you eat, get full, build nice houses, and settle down, 13 and when your herds and your flocks are growing large, your silver and gold are multiplying, and everything you have is thriving, 14 don’t become arrogant, forgetting the Lord your God: the one who rescued you from Egypt, from the house of slavery…

The Liminal Spaces Series is a contemplative journey through the Scriptures on the theme of wilderness, growth, and change. It was originally broadcast for the season of Lent, but it can be used at any time of the year.

We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you abide in the presence of Jesus and the Word of God, learn by studying the Scriptures, and go with intention to love the world. Each weekday is a 10-12 minute devotional, with the exception of the final four meditations (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday) which are slightly longer.

The Liminal Spaces bibliography can be found on our website.

Scriptures are taken from various translations, the most common being the Common English Bible (CEB), the English Standard Version (ESV), and the New Living Translation (NLT).

Music credits: Maksym Dudchyk on Pixabay. Used with permission.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.
• Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon.

Follow us on social media for weekly practices: @gothewildway

Contact us: podcast (at) thewildway.ca.

DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠. Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others.

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide.

The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.

"The Lord proclaims:

Stop at the crossroads and look around;

ask for the ancient paths.

Where is the good way?

Then walk in it

and find a resting place for yourselves."

~Jeremiah 6:16

The Liminal Spaces Series is a contemplative journey through the Scriptures on the theme of wilderness, growth, and change. It was originally broadcast for the season of Lent, but it can be used at any time of the year.

We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you abide in the presence of Jesus and the Word of God, learn by studying the Scriptures, and go with intention to love the world. Each weekday is a 10-12 minute devotional, with the exception of the final four meditations (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday) which are slightly longer.

The Liminal Spaces bibliography can be found on our website.

Scriptures are taken from various translations, the most common being the Common English Bible (CEB), the English Standard Version (ESV), and the New Living Translation (NLT).

Music credits: Maksym Dudchyk on Pixabay. Used with permission.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.
• Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon.

Follow us on social media for weekly practices: @gothewildway

Contact us: podcast (at) thewildway.ca.

DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠. Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others.

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide.

The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.

"Do not be afraid… 30 The Lord your God is going ahead of you. He will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt. 31 And you saw how the Lord your God cared for you all along the way as you traveled through the wilderness, just as a father cares for his child. Now he has brought you to this place.’"

The Liminal Spaces Series is a contemplative journey through the Scriptures on the theme of wilderness, growth, and change. It was originally broadcast for the season of Lent, but it can be used at any time of the year.

We invite you into Scripture, reflection, and intentional practices to help you abide in the presence of Jesus and the Word of God, learn by studying the Scriptures, and go with intention to love the world. Each weekday is a 10-12 minute devotional, with the exception of the final four meditations (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday) which are slightly longer.

The Liminal Spaces bibliography can be found on our website.

Scriptures are taken from various translations, the most common being the Common English Bible (CEB), the English Standard Version (ESV), and the New Living Translation (NLT).

Music credits: Maksym Dudchyk on Pixabay. Used with permission.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify.
• Rhythms of Life spiritual formation course now available as digital download from our website or print version on Amazon.

Follow us on social media for weekly practices: @gothewildway

Contact us: podcast (at) thewildway.ca.

DONATE TO THE WILD WAY⁠. Your support helps us create spiritual formation and discipleship resources that help people be formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others.