Meditation on Gratitude Weekly Blog Friends, Thanksgiving is a holiday here in the U.S., and it’s also a form of spiritual practice. Learning to be grateful, truly grateful, even for the most difficult and challenging parts of our lives is a powerful spiritual practice that busts up fearful and limited thinking…. <read more…>
What Happens After Death? Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from three sources that address the question, “What happens after death?” The first source is a website that summarizes various religious perspectives. A second source discusses research on Near Death Experience…. <read more…>
Third Commandment Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week offers a Jewish perspective to exploring the depth of meaning contained in the commandments from Leonard Felder’s book The Ten Challenges … for Creating Meaning, Growth, and Richness in Every Day of Your Life…. <read more…>
Science and Religion Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from Franciscan monk, Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation. “Science and religion are long-lost dance partners. Reality is God’s greatest ally. For centuries, science and religion worked together, learning from Creation….” <read more…>
Bad News Overwhelm Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from an On Being interview of Zen Buddhist, Roshi Joan Halifax on the topic of “Buoyancy Rather Than Burnout in Our Lives” for those of us overwhelmed by bad news and by the attention we want to pay to suffering in the world….. ” …
Courage Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from ACIM teacher Jennifer Hadley in her October 13, 2017 Daily Spiritual Espresso blog. “Intending to be masterful through having a loving heart has challenged me to do things that I have thought I couldn’t do…. ” <read more…>
The Function of Dissatisfaction Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from one of my favorite Buddhist authors, Cheri Huber. Her book, When You’re Falling, Dive, is a treasure of practical wisdom. “Dissatisfaction is pervasive in human experience. It functions as the foundation for egocentric karmic conditioning….” <read more…>
Turning Toward Nature Weekly Blog Friends, In this week’s blog we look at an article by Heather Swanson entitled Turning Toward the Wilderness. In addition there is a short paragraph from Richard Rohr on Christian mystic, Hildegard of Bingen’s metaphysical view of nature. “What might we hear if we turned toward the tree behind us?”…
Doorways to Transformation Weekly Blog Friends, In this week’s blog we look at Doorways to Transformation beginning with a quote by Frances Vaughan, “There are many doorways into the inner world.” The portals to transformation are different types of experiences that shake…. <read more…>
Physical Healing Through Prayer Weekly Blog Friends, Here is an excerpt on the Christian Science method of healing through prayer. What makes Christian Science unlike any other modality is that it’s the only method of healing that starts, not from the basis of matter, but from the basis of spiritual perfection…. ” <read more…>