In the previous article, we’d touched on the Universal Prime Force. In the Exposition of the Divine Principle textbook, the topics that follow are the Three Objects Purpose and the Four Position Foundation, and then the section closes. The next major section addresses the Purpose of Creation. But for this article, I’d like to take […]
How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There’s Life After Death Book Review This was a fun book to read, quite different from other books about life after death. The author, Annie Kagan, writes about her own experience of receiving messages from her recently deceased brother Billy. Annie was not a medium or psychic, and was […]
It’s a big deal, this New Year thing. Every year we wish everyone we know a better year than the year before. We also reflect on our own accomplishments, and blunders, in order to make resolutions about what we want to accomplish in the coming year. This tradition almost sounds religious. The Time of Our […]
Christmas reminds us that we have great reason for joy. The holidays are filled with activity, food, family and friends. It’s exciting – you are never too young or too old for Christmas. There is a growing pile of presents under my tree! However, in our rush for holiday cheer we easily lose sight of […]
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” —Maya Angelou Healing the Heart’s Hurts The human heart is the most vulnerable part of our being, yet it is this vulnerability that in large part makes us human. Each human heart has carried within it the pain […]
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”-Aesop “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”-Zig Ziglar “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”-Marcus Tullius Cicero “It […]
Our series, “You were made for more” is the perfect opportunity to talk about what matters in life. Thinking about what matters most immediately boils the conversation down to two things. I know that seems ridiculous because there are so many things in life that are important….where we live, our career; creating wealth, discovering a […]
There’s nothing worse than feeling disappointed with God because we naturally, even if unconsciously, put all our hopes in God and the things that God represents to us. But is it realistic to put all our hopes in God? We can’t begin to talk about disappointment with God without considering who God is and how […]
A sky mottled with blue peeking through dark clouds drew my eyes upward as I left the grocery store. Then I noticed faint colors emerging on both sides of my visual horizon above the trees. My uplifted face caught a few raindrops as I walked across the parking lot toward my car oblivious to anything […]
Disappointment with God – part 2 I came across an interesting video the other day that asked if the average church goer was stuck in some kind of spiritual adolescence. It made me think. Are we like spiritual adolescents; we aren’t quite ready to take on what it means to be a person of faith, […]
