Spirituality

1101. Standing in the Gap By Kimberly Chastain
      I’m weary of saying No to my children. Not just the everyday No’s. Don’t hit your brother and No, you cannot have 5 pieces of candy. I am weary of the No I am continually saying to our culture. The world is bound and determined to take away my children’s innocence. They want my children to grow up way too fast. They want my little girl to dress like an adult. They want my little boy to know things he is way too young to know. I’m weary of saying you can’t go to that movie, because it is not ap…



1102. Reiki Versus World War Three By Judith Conroy
      Is World War 3 Inevitable?Well, is it? What are your thoughts and feelings on this..?Do you think that it’s inevitable, and that it's just around the corner?Many, many people do you know, and they're backed up by some pretty high level prognosticators too...Ranging from Nostradamus in the past through to Billy Meier - who's alive and kicking here in the present - and a whole range of others, who I won't bother to list, falling somewhere in between.Then - perhaps lending a little more credence …



1103. Mankind's Ten Worst Enemies: #4 Malice By Saundra L. Washington
      Malice is a great enemy to mankind. It is evil and wicked. It is destructive to both the victim of its attacks and the perpetrator as well. The Psalmist pleaded, “Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak cordially with their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts.”Malice wears the clothing of deceit. It is manipulative and venomous when it strikes. It is a wolf dressed up in sheep’s clothes. Malicious individuals bear false witness and promote their fallacies…



1104. A senseless tragedy
      My disastrous childhood, my crestfallen adulthood in which I could not remain in a successful career in singing due to stage fright, followed by a cheerless marriage, bamboozled me into a life of bizarre loneliness. Then followed a period of amplified physical pain that led to two neuro-surgeries. The problems with my cervical spine changed my personality profoundly. The new 'me' that emanated, is more affable, more complaisant and more accommodating towards others than the old 'me'. I starte…



1105. Selfishness is a True Declaration of Life's Purpose By Roy Klienwachter
      In your quest for enlightenment, always ask what's in it for me?On the surface the above statement will sound selfish because humanity sees it the other way around and selfishness is measured in human terms, but the truth of the matter is that "nature" is selfish by nature. Nature gives back to nature only after it has satisfied the needs of sustenance of each individual first. Humanity has taught its members to be selfless and "give" or "do," whether you like it or not, without question or c…



1106. What Exactly is Grace? By Vivian Gordon
      This question, "what is grace" plagued me more into knowing the answer and being sure beyond a shadow of a doubt.In the beginning of time, It was God's intention to be in fellowship with His people. We all know that sin took us right out of that equation. But, since God is always way ahead of Satan, He already had a plan set in motion to bring us back to Himself, all was not lost.He told Satan that the seed of the woman would crush his head. That seed was Christ who would be sent to red…



1107. Just A Thought
      Just before I left New York last week, one of my family was asking me if I was stressed out over a serious, possibly life-threatening, problem another close family member was having. 'No,' I replied. I felt the intensity that person was dealing with, but I was not about to take on her problem and get all stressed out over it. I was not going to make someone else's problem, no matter how much I loved her, my problem. I was not going to think bad-feeling thoughts and put out those negative vibrati…



1108. Christening and Baptism Favor Ideas By Criss White
      Baptism and christening ceremonies are an important event that signifies the start of a child's spiritual life. As a common courtesy to guests who attend these ceremonies, the parents of the child or the host of the event often obtain party favors as a gift. Here are some themes and ideas that are appropriate for these occasions:1. Cross - The holy cross is by far the most common theme for baptism and christening favors. There are many interpretations of the meaning of the cross. However, the …



1109. Your Artistic Talent as a Weapon By Tony Snipes
      Your creative gift has power.God was the first and still is the greatest artist there is. He gifted you to be creative like He is because we were created in His image. The stronger our connection with God grows, the more He empowers His artists to create according to His will.From his book “How To Draw Comic Heroes God’s Way” a friend and fellow artist Edgar J. Williams (who has now gone on to be with the Lord) wrote this about Visual Artists:“Anything that comes from GOD is powerful. Art is p…



1110. Am I W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G.? Are you? By Steve Singleton
      If you spend a hundred bucks and buy the right software, you can create web pages the easy way, or you can save the money and struggle writing it all in HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML). With HTML, you have to imagine what each finished page will look like. With web-design software, nothing is left for you to figure out: "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG). The same is true of a number of different computer graphics applications. The best software is always WYSIWYG. From the very beginn…



1111. The Dark Side of Spirituality By Sharif Khan
      On reading Susan Cato’s Time Magazine Canada piece titled, “In Search of the Spiritual,” I became increasingly annoyed at the realization that many people keep making the erroneous split between religion and spirituality, when they are one and the same. For example, in the Time Canada piece, Rabbi Leigh Lerner, who leads the Temple Emanu-El–Beth Sholom, a Reform congregation in Montreal, states, “Religiosity may not be increasing, but spirituality is,” confirming the notion that ‘spirituality …



1112. The Simple Plan of Asking and Receiving By Michelle Jacobson
      The Question Really picture this in your mind.... Someone tells you that if you ask them for a hundred dollars they'll give it to you and all you have to do is believe it they will- would you ask for it and believe?God told us in 1John 5:14,15 exactly that. He said that if we ask Him for anything according to His will He'd give it to us. He will always do as he said.We just need to understand a few things before we can have some of the things we think we want -Like a two-year old boy wh…



1113. Christian Roommates - Finding Good Company By Ian Byrd
      In 1 Corinthians 15:33, Paul wrote: “Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character.” This statement should be your guiding light when selecting your next roommates.In the same way that your family influenced you growing up, the people you live with now will also change the way you speak, act and think. This is great news if you pick solid, Christian roommates who will help you to grow. Proverbs 27:17 says that “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”However, the influence …



1114. Anam Chara - Telling Your Story By Tony Cuckson
      We as human beings travelled in small bands for hundreds of thousands of years.Some of our group during the day went hunting for food. In the shelter of the cave, sitting or lying around the fire we told our stories. Maybe before speech we enacted our stories. The stories we told were of courage, endeavour and of feeling afraid. We bands of humans were brought together in these acts of story telling.I love storytelling.Where I live there is a Green Festival. Included in this festival are …



1115. The Spiritual Path By Darlene Zagata
      Many different images come to mind when one hears the word spiritual. Some think of heaven complete with angels and harps. Others may imagine a mountain retreat high in the Himilayan mountains where monks sit in lotus position chanting "om."According to Dicitionary.com spiritual is defined as:1. Of, relating to, consisting of, or having the nature of spirit; not tangible or material.2. Of, concerned with or affecting the soul.3. Of, from or relating to God; deific.4. Of or belonging to a churc…



1116. Life - The Realization By Teow Aun Chew
      One must make sense. If we stick to things that bear shapes and forms seriously, we will become lost beings. Victory over oneself is a real victory. If man were to walk in all directions, a lot of time would be wasted. Wandering in the dark, beware of the pits. All pits are traps laid down to capture their prey. Be the hunter of the Truth and not let plenty of beauties await us at the bottom. Do not let lust get the better of us. A path that is visible is an illusion that appears to the eye. T…



1117. God Is Waiting To Bless Me By Jill Horn
      In the year 2000, I went on a mission trip to Guatemala with Wycliffe Bible Translators. It was a weeklong trip where we were able to see the results of the Bible translation work in Guatemala. Before going, my friends were telling me I was going to become a missionary. I kept telling them, “No, I’m not. I’m just going to go on mission trips during the summers when school’s out and I don’t have to teach.”When I was in the beautiful country of Guatemala, I felt God impressing upon my heart …



1118. Lost? Reclaiming Your Center By Christopher Stewart
      You have 7 major energy or psychic centers that radiate throughout the body, both front and back. These are called “Chakras” which is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel. Each chakra is a center for various energies to be transformed and linked in your body. The body chakras start at the base of your spine and run all the way to the top of your head.Chakras are seen in clairvoyant or psychic sight sometimes as colored circles, funnels, flowers, or as just a field around a part of the body. Th…



1119. Accessing Your Spiritual Guidance By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
      For the last 35 years, I have been working with individuals, couples and families, as well as business relationships. I have 8 published books on relationships and healing, some of them best-sellers. In the first half of my career, I worked as a traditional psychotherapist, and was not happy with the results. In the last 18 years I have worked with a process called Inner Bonding, which is a powerful six step psychological and spiritual healing process. I discovered that there is no real healin…



1120. Slow Leak By Vivian Gordon
      In God's world, everything can be used as an anology to His Word. I'm using this small unassuming small leak in my tire as an example of how if it is let go, can cause a spiritual wreck.In this case, I'm comparing new tires to the Christian. When they are new, all is well...until we run over that one small unsuspecting nail! It doesn't take much until that tire, or our faith in this instance, will start losing precious air. If it's left unattended, a little air will soon turn into alot …



1121. Father's Death Is Root Cause Of Simons's Procrastination! By Olivia Stefanino
      Simon admitted that he had a major problem with procrastination. And since his father had died of a heart attack nearly a year ago, the problem had become much worse.Frowning and fiddling nervously with his pen, Simon went on to tell me that he felt increasing pressure at work - and that meeting deadlines was getting harder and harder.His immediate boss was also beginning to question Simon’s effectiveness, which was adding further to the pressure that he was experiencing. Afraid of losing hi…



1122. The Power of Feeling By George Lockett
      It is through your feeling and releasing, relaxing and centering your energy that you can truly know whom you are. Take a deep breath and stay conscious of your breathing as you reach out with your feeling.We see all the top Scientist and Physicist and Business People, all using their mind to try to understand life and the world around them. What they find is that the more they look into a subject the more they realise how little they actually know.Yet the true process of knowing is not in und…



1123. Heart Matters-- What Matters Most By Greg Ryan
      With excitement and anticipation I jumped on a plane last Thursday evening to Florida to visit my family and fish some with my dad. Six hours after arrival I painfully watched while many types of medical professionals frantically, yet methodically temporarily stop my father's heart in order to prevent it not to matter twenty minutes later.We watch it in movies, we even practice it in medical school, but when it is a part of your own blood you some how feel like it's your heart to on that table…



1124. The Purpose of Life, Told by an Agnostic By Lance Winslow
      Talked to an interesting person today at a coffee shop, after about 10 minutes or so told me he was an atheist. Which is interesting and lends it self as to why we were having this particular conversation about "THE MEANING OF LIFE”.Having studied the thought process of those who are atheists along with the reasoning differences between world religions, multiple or one god scenarios, Eastern and Western Philosophy it was perhaps good for him to discuss these issues with me rather than some who…



1125. And The Meaning of Life Is? By Andre Best
      I find myself continuing to be drawn back into thoughts about the meaning of life.Now this is not an article trying to presuppose the meaning of existence of humanity.Rather this is an article about one man trying to sort out the thoughts that are recently running through his brain regarding what one's purpose here on Earth is. That is, while we are given our own allotment of time on this physical plane.Perhaps it's my own version of a mid-life crisis where my mind is perhaps maturing enough t…



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2. The Big Choice By Max Lucado
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you, and you will eat with me.” REVELATION 3:20, NCVJesus gives this invitation. To know God is to receive His invitation. Not just to hear it, not just to study it, not just to acknowledge it, but to receive it. It is possible to learn much about God’s invitation and never respond to it personally.Yet His invitation is clear and nonnegotiable. He gives all and we give Him all. Simple…

3. The Impeccability of the Word By Sheri Rosenthal
It is amazing how many folks mention after reading “The Four Agreements” by don Miguel Ruiz, that the first agreement (be impeccable with your word) doesn’t seem to be as difficult as the second or third agreements (don’t take anything personally and never make assumptions). They say, “Sure, I can stop gossiping or be careful to speak more kindly when I am communicating, but not taking anything personally or making assumptions….well that’s really difficult!” Personally, I think the first agree…

4. The Joy of Tantric Massage By David Gideon
Originating in what is now modern India; Tantra is at least 5000-7000 or more years old, pre-dating and influencing both Hinduism and Buddhism.Many religions believe you can have either physical pleasure or spiritual growth, but not both.Tantra flatly disagrees, believing that physical and sensual pleasure are themselves the key to our spiritual growth; without one, you can’t have the other.Tantrics believe working on our bodies can clear them of accumulated rubbish, enabling healing and re-…