Honor and Trust

Honor recognizes our inalienable right to form our own perceptions, develop beliefs, and experience feelings.  Honor does not judge rightness or wrongness; it simply acknowledges what is.  Honor allows me to let myself feel what I feel, let you be who you are without judgment or condemnation.  Honor is the gift I give myself and [...]

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Connections

Feeling isolated and alone is most often a direct consequence of our own actions.  Grief and depression can cause a sense of disconnection, but most of the times we feel isolated, we have simply withdrawn from those with whom we share a deeper sense of connection.  When we begin to feel misunderstood, under-appreciated, or overwrought, [...]

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Walk the Talk

“Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is God’s footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.  And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.  Let your word [...]

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Trust

We’ve all heard someone caught in an illegal or immoral act say “I’m not a bad person, I just made a bad decision.”  Such a statement can be true, so it gives us pause.  We can only make an accurate judgment of someone’s character if we know them well enough to assess the cumulative nature [...]

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Community Is Not A Luxury

          I need the support of others if I am to accomplish the purpose for which I came into this life.  If I am on my own, I may be able to keep the path God has prepared in sight for a while, but without the support of a loving community, I [...]

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Being Powerless Is Not Being Hopeless

           When we come to recognize that we are powerless over people, places, and things, we often feel impotent.  If we don’t have power over others, how could we have power at all?  It takes a while to recognize that we have power over ourselves.  When we exercise that power and [...]

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Growing Trust

As I develop the practice of entering the quiet on a daily basis, I find myself becoming more trusting of God’s steadfast presence.  I used to have a hard time believing that God would never abandon me, because I did not give myself time each day to be aware of God’s presence apart from the [...]

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Faith Means Remembering I Am Not God

Faith means remembering I am not God I am forced to make decisions on faith all the time.  When I am confronted with a situation where I know less than others, I  am willing to trust them to inform me. When I leave the house in the  morning, I am dressed in accordance with the [...]

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Life on Life’s Terms

One of the keys to happiness is accepting life as it is, releasing our expectations of how it should be.

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