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I was requested recently to give some recommendations for good Bible read alouds for children. I promised to pull together this blog as a response, for it is useful for parents, homeschoolers, and Sunday School teachers alike.
I am a regular contributor to the Danbury News Times Forum on Faith column, which is also picked up by the Connecticut Post and the Stamford Advocate.
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left
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There were so many great quotes about perfection in last week’s Bible Lesson, I post some of them here not only to share them with you, but to keep track of them for my own reference later.
What makes up
your body
of thought?
They say the average person
has 70,000 thoughts a day
which is 2,916 per hour
or 48 per minute.
Things are literally different depending on “the frame of reference” you view them from, and this has been proven to be true experimentally. It is not just an illusion.
For this month, in my project of contemplating and growing in one attribute of Spirit at a time, I have been concentrating on being spiritually-minded.
We usually consider matter as solid, but it is far from it. The closer you get to looking at matter, the less material it seems to be.
Now is the season of snuggling under downy covers. Now is the season of cuddling in our warm woolies with a thick book. Now is the time for settling next to the fire with a dear friend and a steaming mug of tea.
Given that we are expecting anywhere from 16 to 36 inches of snow in the next twelve hours, I thought the prayer below by Father James Martin was pertinent.
A month ago, I blogged about being positive as the first entry in a project of more consciously imbibing qualities of Spirit; I am choosing one to focus on each month, and writing down my thoughts about what I learned.
The Golden Text in this week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson is from II Thessalonians (2:13)…
Wow. I’ve finished six years on this daily blog. That’s 2,190 entries! Here’s my traditional list of “best blog posts” which folks have found especially helpful
As you prepare for the rebirth of the Christ child in your heart, I thought you might appreciate these two articles and three videos…
A month ago a blog reader and I agreed to take one quality of Spirit each month and focus on seeing it, experiencing it, expressing it, noticing it, demonstrating it, appreciating it, and spiritually demanding it of ourselves and all creation.
This is an unnecessarily bare-bones site graphically, but it has tons of print lectures on Christian Science available from as far back as 1900.
Full orbed and pregnantly expecting, the world races around in gestation, waiting for the babe of reconciliation to arrive and shepherd us to salvation.