Reaching through Divine Love
Now I am no longer feeling like being more spiritually minded projects death to the self. It is feeling more like a quick path to self-fulfillment and the broadest expression of my highest authenticity.
Christ
Quote by Bishop John Shelby Spong
After my blog “Uncleanness Cast Out,” this bit of an article was sent to me by a blog reader. It is by an Episcopalian bishop from an article titled, “The Meaning of the Passion Opens into the Meaning of a Resurrection.”
Uncleanness Cast Out
I saw clearly that the Christ did not just cast out that one man’s uncleanness, but everyone’s for all time, including you and me and everybody we pray for.
New Abstract Pastels for Good Friday
“Those who slew him to stay his influence perpetuated and extended it.”
Mary Baker Eddy
New Poem: Discipleship Can Be Messy
Discipleship is a good thing:
something to seek
and make an effort for
like food and shelter.
From the Lorica of Saint Patrick
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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Sacred Bits and Clips for Christmas
As you prepare for the rebirth of the Christ child in your heart, I thought you might appreciate these two articles and three videos…
Free Print Christian Science Lectures
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.
New Poem: Advent
Full orbed and pregnantly expecting, the world races around in gestation, waiting for the babe of reconciliation to arrive and shepherd us to salvation.
Notes Made on Art and Spirituality at Camp
I love Creative Arts Camp in Maine. The people are terrific: the convergence of art with Christian Science is an amazing combination.
The Distinction Between Jesus and the Christ
I was struck while studying the Christian Science Bible lesson for this week by the distinctions made between Jesus and the Christ.
Bible Lesson Journal: Recent Pages
Each double page spread represents the study of one week-long lesson.
My Recent Thoughts on Forgiveness
I have often done very well forgiving as Jesus did on the cross, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” In fact, there have been such major healings experienced related to this approach that it is my go-to stance whenever I am the brunt of someone’s inconceivable actions.
Judy Cole on the National Day of Prayer
We can unite in prayers for peace and acts of goodwill. Divine Love is universal and can direct us to needed solutions to feed the hungry, provide clean drinking water throughout the world, and end conflicts at home and abroad.
Poem: You Took Me In
You Took Me In a refuge a reverie an agent of regeneration resonating… I always say give of your light but not of your oil but how does one get an oil change? Unexpectedly, it seems from the arms of divine Love through your willing hands stretched out to a stranger Sand beach filled my … Read more