Thoughts Shared With a Young Explorer (Part 2)

To continue the dialogue with my young friend from my last article (as I mentioned in the previous post our young explorer is LDS so some of his questions, and my answers, have a connotation oriented to that faith). The answers are general, however.

Asking For Help

Through prayer love is received and through miracles love is expressed. Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed his Son at his creation.

Open Letter to Life

What makes us the way that we are, and how do we grow and change. This is a poetic look at the impact of life and experiences on each of us.

Begin With the End in Mind

Rather than focus on our ultimate destiny, leaving this world behind, our culture has chosen to replace a morbid fascination with death with a morbid fascination with rigidity and changelessness. Our obsession with youth and nostalgia for an imagined halcyon age in times gone by permeates not only our decision-making processes, but also the meaning we give to the world.

New Age Spirituality – Reflections on Awakening and Politics

As I have searched for my personal meaning of life, I have done a great deal of meditation. There are times I feel an energy within me that wants to express itself in words. I either write out these words on the computer or speak them into a digital recorder. This is what, in the New Age spirituality, we call channeling. Below are a few paragraphs from the ideas which came to me during a period of channeling.

From Meditation – An Analogy of Oneness and the Importance of the Masses

People who meditate often have thoughts and ideas that come to them that seem to come from outside themselves. This happens to me frequently. I either write these words down or speak them into a tape recorder. What’s fascinating to me that the “tone” or sentence structure is different than I would use in my everyday speech. What follows is an edited version of what came to me one night.

Cyprian of Carthage – On Patience – The Virtue Above All Others

Recalling my days in seminary and the fun times had, including those whopping breaks where table tennis was the staple, I also remember an intriguing study on Cyprian of Carthage–the Early Church Father. I did a study on his work called, On Patience, and I found it fascinating.

King David of Israel – The Man Whom I Envy Most

In this article, I will share to you my hidden envious to a particular person. Yes, I really envy to this man…and I will tell you why.

Secret to Greatness

When we speak effectively, destinies changes. Moses’ destiny changed after this encounter with God as God taught him what to say and helped him to speak. As we embark on another journey of life this week, let us watch our words everywhere we find ourselves.

Spiritual Awareness – Expectation is the Mother of Happy Life Experiences

If you were told that there are millions of stars in the sky, you would probably accept this without question. But if you are told the paint is still wet, you would probably have to touch it in order to believe it is true. Why is that? You might be able to accredit this to ‘human nature.’ What is human nature? Human nature is the basic range of behaviors and qualities that every human has in common.

Wisdom Living Oracle – Show No Self-Satisfaction in Life

This is an oracle and a commentary on two biblical proverbs and an aphorism by Balthasar Gracian. The end of the story is ‘Show no Self-Satisfaction’ in life.

Is There a Spiritual Red Herring? One That Causes Us to Find “Heaven” in the Wrong Places?

Remission of sin according to the sacrificing of (animal) life and the sprinkling of blood only creates a new situation in the realm of the lie believed. It does not touch true reality. People are seduced by a well thought-out scheme of operation. As pure physical creatures we are innocent of any sort of spiritual plotting. We simply exist according to the nature of the environment we find ourselves in and the natures given to each of us.