Sometimes the most honest thing to do is stand still.

This short reflection is about letting go of fear-based momentum, resting on bare ground, and allowing meaning to emerge in its own time.

January 1 is a loud day.

Everywhere we’re told to change, fix, decide, and reinvent ourselves — often before we’ve even had a chance to arrive.

In this reflection episode, Beck offers a quieter invitation.

This is not about becoming someone new.

It’s about remembering what’s already true.

Drawing on the ancient story of Persephone and the wisdom of seasonal living, this episode reframes the beginning of the year as a time for honesty, alignment, and permission — not pressure. Winter, after all, was never meant for blooming.

If you’re feeling tired, unsure, or inward as the year begins, this episode is a place to rest, re-orient, and listen.

This is New Year, True You — a gentle crossing into the year from within.

This Christmas blessing is a quiet pause in the midst of the season's noise - a moment to breath, reflect, and rest in what is already held for you.

In this short bonus Beck & Liv offer a spoken blessing for peace, provision, protection & presence. It is an invitation to release what has been heavy this year, to receive what is true, and to remember that you are not behind, forgotten or alone.

Whether you listen on Christmas Day or sometime after, may these words meet you exactly where you are and remind you that light is still being born - gently, faithfully, and right on time.

Merry Christmas from 287 West.

You are deeply loved.

In this conversation, Beck and Liv explore “the cracked egg”—the moment when something breaks open inside us and a new awareness begins to form.

Using the themes from Pandora’s Gift, they revisit the myth with fresh eyes, explore Pandora’s connection to Eve, and talk through the spiritual meaning of the “opening” as a threshold of awakening.

If Episode 13 felt dense, symbolic, or layered, this gentle recap helps everything land. This is a grounding, clarifying, and sometimes humorous conversation that brings the myth down into real life and makes the awakening process feel beautifully human.

✨ Listener Invitation:

What is cracking open in you right now? If something in this episode resonated, email us at 287west@gmail.com — we love hearing your stories.

A quiet reflection from Beck: The House of Cards - a meditation on what collapses, what remains, and what is reborn.

This week, we're offering this gentle space for anyone who feels the structures shifting beneath them. Our next full conversation episode with Olivia is coming soon.

Thank you for your grace, your presence, and your steady listening heart.

You are divinely guided in all your ways, you are divinely prospered in everything you put your hand to, and the Spirit of Christ-In-You cannot fail.

In this Deep Dive, we open Pandora’s Box — not as a myth of blame, but as a mirror for the moment everything in our lives spills open.

The moment the “box” breaks is never the moment we planned, but it is always the moment that reveals what was hidden.

We explore:

• The true Greek telling of Pandora — not a villain, but the first woman created in Divine likeness
• Why humans open forbidden boxes, push forbidden doors, and break their own illusions
• How relationships built on fantasy collapse once truth begins to rise
• Why chaos often comes before clarity
• The sacred work of identifying what was never yours to carry
• And the strange mercy of seeing the truth plainly, even when it hurts

This is an episode about becoming sovereign over your inner life — about reclaiming what got scattered when everything fell apart.

When the box breaks, the truth gets free.

And the truth that remains is the part that was always yours.

A short guided meditation closes the episode, helping you breathe into your new reality, honor your grief, and step forward with grounded clarity.

In this episode of 287 West, we step into the quietest realm of all — the Aether — the element beyond the four, the space where guidance arrives softer than breath and somehow louder than anything we can ignore.

Beck and Olivia explore the experience of hearing the voice beneath sound:

the nudge that won’t go away,

the inner knowing that doesn’t shout,

the clarity that rises the moment stillness becomes spacious enough to hear it.

Through stories, subtle examples, and gentle reflection, we explore how the Aether speaks — not in volume, but in resonance. Not in pressure, but in presence. Not in fear, but in the unmistakable sense that something inside is guiding us forward.

If you’ve ever wondered whether God speaks in silence… this episode will take you there.

Let’s walk together into the quiet that speaks.

In this Deep Dive, we step into one of the most mysterious and transformative movements of the human soul: grief. Not as something to avoid or rush through — but as an alchemical journey that reshapes us from the inside out.

Together, we explore the elemental stages of grief through the Compass of Grace, the mythic descent and return, and the eternal mystery that stands before the beginning: the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world — the act that made human life, restoration, and abundant living possible.

This episode invites you into a spacious reflection:

Where is grief breaking you open?

Where is Christ breathing life back into places that felt lost?

And how might this eternal Christ — the One who walked out of death — walk through you here and now?

At the end of the episode, you’re invited into a moment of awakening:

to say yes to Christ,

yes to abundant life now,

yes to the transformation that is already unfolding inside you.

If something stirred in you, and you whispered yes — whether as a new believer or someone rediscovering the eternal Christ within — I would love to hear your story.

Write to me at 287west@gmail.com.

Your journey matters.