Technology and Today’s Kids – The Eyes of the World
My distaste for technology may be due to the fact that I grew up in the country, no access to the outside world through telephone, internet, or television. My kids are aghast as I tell them the story of Mommy’s techie-less childhood, pity filling their eyes as I speak of a life isolated. Even as I try to reassure them that I liked it that way, they shake their heads in disbelief, appalled that their grandparents would submit my siblings and I to a life without the windows of the world looking in.
Thoughts on Libya and the Middle EastFirst Egypt, now Libya, and of course, the continued conflict between Israelis and Palestinians; as well as many other areas of discord in the Middle East – What can we contribute as individuals, who are all the way on the other side of the world? If we’re bothered at all by what’s going on, how can we feel more helpful and empowered to make a difference? We may say, “I am only one person. I have little effect, so why try?” But I believe we’re much more powerful than we think and our behavior is both influential and significant! What we choose to do and think counts!
Spiritual Traveler: The MicrocosmQ: Man is the microcosm. What does this saying mean, and what is its significance to the spiritual traveler?
The Discipline of Receiving Revelation: Step 2 – AssimilationBiblical meditation is rarely discussed, within Christian circles, much less practiced. Yet, it is God’s prescribed way to absorb Biblical knowledge! This article will explore some basic concepts and practices of this lost discipline.
Does Reiki Work, and What’s This Rubbish About Distant Healing?Here in the West we think of Reiki as a healing therapy, but its roots are in personal and spiritual development. The Reiki practitioner works with the universal energy flow and, through the power of intent, channels the energy to themselves or others. This article explores how Reiki energy can be sent through time and space to achieve Distant Healing.
No Perfect PeopleLet us be honest no one living has ever met a perfect person. Sure maybe some great people. Those that would give you the shirt off their back, so to speak. But we know that no one is perfect. Everyone has faults and their own battles.
How To Become An Interfaith Law Enforcement ChaplainSeveral chaplaincy programs that serve Law Enforcement are considered to be interfaith organizations because the chaplains will have to know how to speak to people of all faiths during the course of their service. For such agencies, a prospective chaplain has to search his or her heart to discover whether or not they are a good match for such an environment. You might ask yourself, am I comfortable talking to and comforting someone who does not share my faith of convictions?
How to Open Up Your Heart and Mind to a Higher PowerWe are all part of the M ind of God. Our mind has three function: conscious, subconscious and subconscious. We need to marry our conscious and subconscious for a happy healthy life. We use our super conscious to understand God better.
Soul – A Work In ProgressLife can be very confusing at times because we live in a multi-dimensional world. Even we ourselves have many dimensions to our own individuality.
The Village and The MountaintopPart of us craves the solitude, the peace, the symmetry and beauty and organic nature of nature itself, of the mountaintop. But the fact is that the grocery store, the gas station, the experience of interpersonal relations – loving each other – in essence, the community that we also want, need and desire to be a part of are all to be found in the village.
Use Your Gifts, Get RichWhen we look at many of the great rag to riches stories that are out there we realize that some people who begin with apparent lack refuse to allow their external circumstances to limit them, they allow their internal fortitude and a dream to drive them, and these people realize that ‘nobody has nothing.’ Where ever it is your starting from, however dyer your situation may appear I encourage you with all my heart fight to use it to contribute to the human race, use it to better your position, use it be fruitful and multiply to subdue the earth. We live in a world of abundance. God has designed it so.
God In The Midst Of ChallengeWhen I am present, I am not reliving some challenge that happened an hour ago, or yesterday, or last week. Nor am I borrowing trouble from the future that does not yet exist. Instead, I am present, experiencing what is before me to experience.