Enter the Silence
On what becomes audible once the noise stops.
Meet Janie
The longest journey
My husband Don and I planted and grew three churches. In 2008, we began a new season in our lives. I found myself with a deep awareness of a calling God placed on my heart that I could not name.
The steps opened one by one. I went back to school to earn a Master's degree in Pastoral Theology from Loyola Marymount, with a concentration in spiritual direction, at fifty-eight years old. I had spent decades in business before that — founding an inspirational gift company, consulting, raising two sons — and all of it was important. It just wasn't the whole thing.
After graduation I was invited to serve as the Spiritual Director for Zig Ziglar International — a role I held for ten years. I've written three books, and contributed to a fourth that became an Amazon best seller.
Over the years, God birthed within me gifts of poetry to help me understand my own journey — through joy and struggle. From the poetry emerged a pattern that became my proprietary framework of Spiritual Formation called the Seven Sacred Signposts.
These signposts lead us safely into the heart of God. Dag Hammarskjöld once said that “the longest journey is the journey inwards.” That is why I am so passionate about helping other women to understand their unique relationship with God.
Today I serve as a spiritual director, teach, write, and co-lead Hidden Life Ministries with Don. And I founded the Women's Center for SoulCARE, which is where this work is practiced in community rather than alone.
Set up signposts,
Make landmarks;
Set your heart toward the highway,
The way in which you went.
“A Poet of the Spiritual Life.”
Phyllis Tickle · Publishers Weekly
M.A. Pastoral Theology · Loyola Marymount
Ziglar Certified Legacy Trainer & Coach
Professional speaker
Spiritual director to Zig Ziglar International for ten years
Author of three books
Contributing author · Amazon best seller
