Expressing Peace. Instant Praying. 21.

Here’s a recipe for Instant Praying. When you feel up a tree and out on a limb, or out to sea and in over your head, or backed into a corner and up against a wall, there are plenty of recommendations for calming down. Praying is the best recommendation. Praying brings peace. Better than taking a deep breath. Better than […]

Posted on September 3, 2014 at 12:55 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Expressing Peace. Child. 17.

To be a child is to know peace. The peace a child knows is the True Reality. Child Peace. That is why its absence — hunger, alone-ness, wetness — causes immediate (and loud) expression. That is why once peace returns, the child is back in bliss. In Leaves of Grass (103), Walt Whitman offered “There […]

Posted on August 30, 2014 at 10:22 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Five Steps to Spiritual Growth

Sometimes we know we’re on a spiritual journey. Sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we know exactly where we are spiritually; it feels good. Sometimes we think we are just lost; it feels bad. Here are 5 steps to  strengthen your spiritual well-being. Take them one at a time or all at once. Keep in mind that […]

Posted on April 2, 2014 at 12:19 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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It’s a judgement thing….

We learn–or at least we’re taught–not to judge others, unless we are willing to be judged. That’s tough. Both ways it’s tough. Often others do things we don’t think are right, we don’t feel are fair, we don’t appreciate or approve. Often–and it may seem more often–we feel that others have an unfair, unkind, unknowing […]

Posted on February 12, 2014 at 11:19 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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