Love
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Day 28 – Self Compassion vs. Self Pity
The greater truth is that all of us are both suffering and filled with the potential for joy. When we feel kicked around by the world, it’s natural to retreat to the closest thing we can find to our mother’s… Continue reading
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Day 15 – Purpose & Suffering
Perhaps our suffering shapes us in the way that a chisel sculpts marble. The pain of each blow makes its mark. And it is the repeated blows that bring real change. We may emerge stronger. Or we may emerge beaten… Continue reading
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Day 8 – Preparing Ourselves for Change
Most of us just “dabble” in the inward journey. We travel a few inches into the difficult territory of the soul, then turn and retreat when the going gets tough. Perhaps this is the reason we’re so attracted to surface… Continue reading
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Day 4 – Love: What’s In It For You?
Why would I want to engage in an activity that involves the disappearance of my ego? After all, isn’t my ego who I am? These are soul-shaking questions. The most encouraging answers come not so much from the famous as… Continue reading
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Christmas Belief
he birth Christians celebrate on December 25 symbolized something of eternal and endless meaning. Love was born into the world in the form of a being who offers to us all we could ever ask or hope for. This is… Continue reading
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The Passion – The Heart of the Third Seed
As we rise this morning and the next to meet the day, we may consider, perhaps for the first time in a long time, an old and critical question: Are we living our lives with passion? If not, why not?… Continue reading
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Passion – The Third Seed
Imagine the notion of living in this world like Brother Lawrence as if there were none but you and God in it. Imagine that everything boils down to your relationship with Love. How would this change your world and that… Continue reading
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Potential -The Second Seed- Continued –
There is no more clear incarnation of potential in this world than a new born baby. All of life opens before my granddaughter just as it did for each of us at our births. Continue reading
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God As Love
The last three words in the Apostle John’s first letter, “God is love,” are, to my mind, among the most important in all of the Bible. John tells us “who” God is. He doesn’t describe God as male or female,… Continue reading
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Love Within
So much of our lives seems to be governed by things from without that we may forget that Love is a force that grows from within each of us. Much is made of life battles between the forces of good… Continue reading
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