Archive for the ‘Spiritual Growth’ Category

Understanding the Nature of God:

The world is full of good people. In the human scene, to be good, one lives by the laws set down by the society in which he lives. One conducts his business in an ethical manner, is devoted to one’s family, and returns to the community some type of social benefit.

In spite of all this, one is still only “good enough” in that an individual attempts to stay “out of trouble”. Being “good” has nothing to do with being “spiritual”.

Even though religion teaches that God is good, God is not GOOD. God is perfection.  Read more... (616 words, 13 images, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

A spiritual journey can be likened to a flower garden. And, flowers growing can be likened to spiritual growth, as the unseen becomes the seen when spring arrives.

In the wooded lot beside our yard, wild honeysuckle grows. Sweet to the senses, the delicate slippered flowers yield nectar to the birds and insects and release a fragrance so familiar to us all.

These are the effects, however. And, although one enjoys the effects of honeysuckle, cultivation of honeysuckle is not normally found in the average garden.  Read more... (628 words, 13 images, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Christ Jesus | Christianity | Ascension | Easter Resurrection

Thousands of church congregations around the world are celebrating the ascension of Christ.

QUESTION: How does one feel when a burden has been lifted?
ANSWER: Free.

Jesus came to free men of the enslavement of material law. His mission was to raise the consciousness of men to Oneness with the Father.

The mission of Jesus was to awaken men to the fact they are already free from the accepted universal laws of sin and death – living as the grace of God.  Read more... (778 words, 13 images, estimated 3:07 mins reading time)

As the calendar year turns, so, too, may your understanding.

It was in 1983 that my life started changing with a new realization. I had picked up a book entitled “The Bridge”, written by a metaphysical practitioner who was married to a medical practitioner, in hopes of learning how to live in “two different worlds”. I foolishly thought there was some magic psychological formula in life to let me be who I thought I was and still be who others thought me to be. My thinking at that time was that there are two different “schools of thought” about life, and that I could bring God into mine!  Read more... (739 words, 13 images, estimated 2:57 mins reading time)

Most people look for God in church, in a temple or synagogue, or in the pages of the Holy Bible. Day after day, year after year, one goes through the ritual – hoping to someday be ready to meet God face to face. At most, the majority of persons only come to know about God. The majority of persons accept a concept of God they have learned by the attendance in church or the reading of the Bible. Surely, God is in churches, temples, and the Holy Bible, but that’s not usually where God is found.  Read more... (756 words, 13 images, estimated 3:01 mins reading time)

As people of the world mourn and fear in the aftermath of terror activities, let us not be consumed with things of the world, but of the Spirit.

As seekers of spiritual truth, one’s responsibility to his “neighbor” – friendly neighbor and enemy neighbor, near neighbor and far away neighbor – is to realize the presence of God as being universal.

Think of the millions of people who pray to God to overcome their enemy. Who is the enemy? To those on the other side, we are. Do we think of ourselves as an enemy? No. We think of ourselves as good.  Read more... (780 words, 13 images, estimated 3:07 mins reading time)

Each of us has in the past, or will in the future, stare up at the stars and wonder where we came from. History books are full of records of people searching for their “roots”. Who are we anyway?

Because the answer has been hidden through generations of time, people have failed to recognize it. Doctrine has conditioned our minds into believing someone else’s concept of the beginning of existence and of Life itself. The Biblical scholars want us to believe we came from dust. The scientific community would like us to believe we evolved from apes. Some paranormals should have us believe we came from aliens.  Read more... (675 words, 13 images, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

Flipping the channels on television one evening brought my husband and me to a Christian station where we paused the remote. By doing so, we heard a “Christian” leader make mention that people of the Buddhist faith would not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

In discovering the Truth that Jesus came to enlighten humanity to the “kingdom of heaven is within” and that “God is no respecter of persons”, one can’t help but wonder how the Christian sect can ostracize those different from themselves? Does not the Bible indicate we are ALL the “sons of Gods, joint heirs with Christ”?  Read more... (760 words, 13 images, estimated 3:02 mins reading time)

There is an old, old story about a great spiritual teacher who knocked at the gates of heaven for admission into paradise. After some time, God came to the door and inquired, “Who is there? Who knocks?”

To this query, came the confident response, “It is I.”

“Sorry, very sorry. There is no room in heaven. Go away. You will have to come back some other time.”  Read more... (220 words, 12 images, estimated 53 secs reading time)

It is the ups and downs that make life interesting and fun. Spiritually speaking, life may even be compared to a playground.

As a child I found myself spending timeless hours in the summertime at the neighborhood park. Monkey bars, see-saws, push merry-go-rounds, swings, and sliding boards were the entertainment of the day. Looking back and remembering the variety of forms the playground took helps me realize the Truth of how life operates.  Read more... (737 words, 13 images, estimated 2:57 mins reading time)

Healing In Today’s World

There are billions of persons walking this globe in search of healing. Physical healing, mental healing, emotional healing. News stories perpetuate the idea we have need of medical procedures, vitamins, or exercise equipment.

How desperate we are to want “good” feelings, emotions, bodily appearances! How much money do we spend to bring such things into our experience?

Healing indicates a possible lack of something. Perhaps we feel we have a lack of “good” health. Or a lack of forgiveness for someone which needs to be healed. We may feel we have lack of a good relationship with another human being. Or, perhaps we lack a substantial income and believe we need a “financial” healing.  Read more... (553 words, 13 images, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

As a child were you ever fascinated with “invisible” ink where you could write a message to a friend and then have the message “disappear” so no one else was able to read it?

The illusion of “magic” has fascinated us all. It is only in the “mystery” of it – in the unknowing. And, just like the invisible message that lies under the invisible ink, we have a yearning to know what other things are being kept from us. Human nature is inquisitive. Human nature wants to know what it’s missing.  Read more... (610 words, 13 images, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

So, you want to be a millionaire? Actually you already are when you realize God’s infinite supply. “Son, thou art ever with me and all that I have is thine.”

So, you ask, “How do I tap into this infinite supply?”

And the answer is, “Let go of all that we currently have.”

Sound silly? Sound impractical? What we already have is of an earthly nature. We cannot fill a vessel already full and so we have to empty it first. But only in our concepts. We must re-educate ourselves as to the nature of supply.  Read more... (448 words, 13 images, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Good neighbor? Bad neighbor? Our neighbor on the other side of the fence or down the street? Our neighbor in the next continent? What constitutes a neighbor? And what do we feed him?

We can do more for others by simply recognizing their true identity as spiritual than to give them physical items that deplete. We can recognize that God meets ALL needs, not only ours because we happen to be a good human or that we go to church on Sunday. God is “of purer eyes than to behold iniquity” so why do we think God favors us?  Read more... (403 words, 13 images, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

We all have it buried within the depths of our being. We catch glimpses of it at odd moments, not recognizing what it is. We feel there is something more in life that we’re missing. We ponder a profound thought to grasp its inner meaning. We wonder about the nature of deep spiritual things. Sound familiar?

The reason Truth eludes us is we have not opened ourselves up to receive it on a continuing basis. It is a constant awareness. It is our very life itself!

Truth is like mathematics. . . . .  Read more... (405 words, 13 images, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

It is in the knowing. To know oneself as a spiritual being, not subject to the ways of the world, is to become truly blessed. This is what we should all be seeking.

It is in the practicing. To constantly keep thought attuned to spiritual things and above the materiality of the world is to open one’s consciousness to commune with God.

To feel God’s presence requires giving up our thoughts about anything in this world – to give up praying for something, about something. Only by getting outside of the human realm can we ever hope to contact God.  Read more... (450 words, 13 images, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

The revelation to this truth often comes when one least expects it. It comes when one is in the very depths of what the human experience would identify as “negative situations”. It comes when one finds himself in “hell”, not in “heaven”. It comes when one comes to the “end of his rope”, when all else fails.  Read more... (386 words, 14 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)