JOSh Friends is your go-to podcast for a dose of inspiration, friendship, and spiritual wisdom. Join us as we explore the treasures of JesCom's Library through the voices of our diverse community. Each episode features guests sharing powerful excerpts from our books and musical pieces, bringing these words to life in a fresh, engaging way. Whether you're a long-time follower or new to the faith journey, JOSh Friends offers a welcoming space for reflection, growth, and connection.
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The Kid Who Stared Out Car Windows | Finding God in the Mess
He was maybe eight years old. Sitting in the back seat during road trips, staring out the window, making up stories in his head complete with shots, transitions, and music scoring. He didn’t know that was already his career beginning.
Joshua Ticao is 21 years old, an aspiring creative director, and someone who has always thought in visuals and frames and the way a story moves from one moment to the next. He analyzes billboards. He critiques campaign videos. He watches films and asks what they’re really trying to say.
What he doesn’t have yet is the whole picture. Film. Advertising. Marketing. PR. The industry is wide and he’s somewhere in the middle of it, still figuring out which direction to fly.
In this episode of JOSh Friends, Joshua reflects on The Gift of Time chapter from Finding God in the Mess by Brendan McManus SJ and Jim Deeds, available through JesCom Exclusives. A chapter that stops you mid-scroll with a single fact: by the end of this week, you will have taken approximately 161,000 breaths. Most of them without even noticing.
For a 21-year-old always looking 50 steps ahead, that landed differently than expected.
His story is about the tension every young creative knows: the gap between where you are and where you want to be, the fear of choosing between passion and stability, and the quiet realization that loving the process might matter more than reaching the destination.
For young creatives, aspiring storytellers, and anyone navigating a season of figuring it out — this episode is for you.
Because the story was already beginning. You just have to keep your eyes open long enough to notice.
Finding God in the Mess by Brendan McManus SJ and Jim Deeds is available through JesCom Exclusives at jescom.ph/josh. A companion for the process, the uncertainty, and every ordinary week that holds more than you think.
30 Sept 2026
Sacred Space | A Psychology Student's Most Honest Prayer
Someone sent her a passage. No long explanation. Just — I thought this might help.
Bea Lao is a fourth-year BS Psychology student at UP Diliman, a mental health advocate, and someone who spends most of her days asking a question that doesn't have a clean answer: what are we asking people to cope with in the first place?
For Bea, mental health has never been just a personal issue. It lives inside systems, cultures, and political realities that either support people or quietly crush them. Awareness is not the same as acceptance. Acceptance is not the same as access. And she believes the Philippines has been confusing these three things for years and calling it progress.
But her biggest struggle right now isn't academic. It's the uncertainty of what comes after graduation. A field she loves, a future that feels heavy, and the question of whether she can build a sustainable career while staying true to why she entered psychology in the first place.
It was in the middle of that weight that a friend shared a passage from Sacred Space 2026.
"What sort of world are we living in?"
She didn't expect to find that question in a prayer book. But there it was. Honest, unresolved, and sitting with her right where she was.
In this episode of JOSh Friends, Bea reflects on a daily reading from Sacred Space — the internationally beloved Jesuit prayer book now available through JesCom Exclusives — and discovers that prayer doesn't require having the answers first. It just requires showing up. Weary. Questioning. Still going.
For psychology students, advocates, and anyone carrying questions too big to answer alone — this episode is for you.
Because a little is not nothing. And coming as you are has always been enough.
Sacred Space is available through JesCom Exclusives at jescom.ph/josh. A daily companion for anyone learning to pray in the middle of a world that doesn't always make sense.
21 Sept 2026
Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2027 | Exactly Where You Are
Genina's day starts at 5am and ends at 8pm, when her kids finally fall asleep. For years she treated that quiet like a finish line. Now she thinks it's where the conversation starts.
Genina Anne Viluan is a mother of two children with autism and a Master Instructor whose home-based beauty studio was only ever supposed to be temporary. Then her children were diagnosed, and the question stopped being how do I grow this, and became how do I keep going while being the mother they actually need.
What she found in that shift is this episode. God let her build the whole thing before the diagnosis came, so she'd have something to stand on when life asked more of her. The setup she called a limitation was maybe just where she was supposed to be.
She found Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2027 on one of those late nights, not looking for anything. Not a retreat. Not a complicated practice. A few intentional minutes a day.
She also has something to say to any parent who has felt guilty for wanting something for themselves.
Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2027 is out now at JesCom Exclusives. jescom.ph/josh
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