Insha’allah (Poem by Danusha Lameris)
So many plans I’ve laid have unraveled easily as braids beneath my mother’s quick fingers.
So many plans I’ve laid have unraveled easily as braids beneath my mother’s quick fingers.
The “Flynn effect” shows a pervasive increase of correct IQ test answers in each generation, and these gains occur everywhere, across various cultures and educational or economic opportunities. This has been tracked since World War I and has been documented in 30 countries. IQ gains are three points every ten years.
Be thankful, be obedient, let your heart shine forth and be sure, keep moving towards freedom and the dazzling light.
Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free.
By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers.
I was interviewed by St. Louis’ Gateway to Dreams magazine Be the Change edition about a spiritual approach to mental health and healing.
I’ve started in a new journal, having filled several before, and I’m really liking this new green one, since the paper is thicker and whiter.
Recalibrating (pastel) by Polly Castor What is the hardest part of your job? Since 1997, I’ve held a full-time, public, day job as a Christian Science Practitioner (a spiritual healer), doing art and family in the in-between times. “Day job,” is a misnomer, since I’m on call 24/7, 365 days of the year, regardless that … Read more
Lately, I’ve been writing the action items– the imperatives– I need to do in the right hand column, with everything else on the left hand side. I am really loving paying attention to this distinction, as well as focusing on implementing those injunctions.
Create your reign of unity now- Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms.
Let all that and infinitely more surge through you. Let that govern your being. Let that sustain you through it all. Let that determine your destiny.
If we open them and enter, we can unlock ourselves, too, and so await whatever is coming to free us and make us whole.
God is a joiner, like a carpenter, splicing together mitered corners, with flush, beautiful transitions, meeting together just right.
It might make you want to be in a more constant relationship with God, in troubling times.
I’ve done the work to train myself to be tranquil, by conscious choice, and by continuous conditioning.
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