What Cross Will We Hang From? (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Jesus aligned with God’s consciousness and was raised from the dead to show us we could live forever. Now, please, can God raise our collective consciousnesses
Spirituality
The Hardest Part of my Job (Polly Answers #19)
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
Theo of Golden (Book Review)
It is about kindness, about an artist and art appreciation, about deeply listening to others about what is on their heart, encouraging others to see their value, appreciating nature, music, walking, and community, all with Christian overtones.
Reverse our Feeble Flutterings (Spiritual Short #3)
When you do a major overhaul of limiting beliefs, reversing them, you’ll thrive, and be a peace, fulled with joy, and in consonance with the “absolute center and circumference of your being.”
Polly Answers #18 (about what happens after death)
My first obvious thought is I don’t know any more than you do because I’ve never gone through it.
Recent Pages in my Bible Lesson Journal
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.
Fresh Translation of the Lord’s Prayer from Aramaic
Create your reign of unity now- Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms.
The Moor (Poem by R.S. Thomas)
It was like a church to me.
I entered it on soft foot,
Breath held like a cap in the hand.
It was quiet.
More than the Slightest Ways (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Words and thoughts may be only the slightest ways to pray.
Today’s Scriptural Selection from the Message Version of the Bible
My scriptural Selection today from the Message version of the Bible for the lesson on Truth:
Lean on the Infinite (New Poem by Polly Castor)
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.
Breath (Poem by Luci Shaw)
When, in the cavern darkness, Jesus
opened his small, bleating mouth (even before his eyes widened to the supple world his lungs had sighed into being), did he intuit how hungrily the lungs gasp?
With Those for Whom There is No Room (Quote by Thomas Merton)
Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.
Do Not Believe in Walls (Quote by Jörg Zink)
If we open them and enter, we can unlock ourselves, too, and so await whatever is coming to free us and make us whole.
Advent Darkness (quote by Fleming Rutledge)
Advent bids us to take a fearless inventory of the darkness: the darkness without and the darkness within.
Advent (quote by Alfred Delp)
It is time to waken from sleep. A waking up must begin somewhere. It is time to put things back where God intended them.