Spiritual Healing
To Not Love is More of a Risk
Loving is the whole point of life, and to not love is the greatest risk of all.
Recent Pages in my Bible Lesson Journal
This is making a difference in me being able to make these lessons practical and transformative.
Seven Blunders of the World that Lead to Violence (Mahatma Gandhi quote)
Here’s how to avoid problems…
Objectively Examine Your Opinions or Beliefs
Are your opinions and beliefs just mindlessly following the crowd?
The Children of Israel had PTSD
(detail of Psalm 91 painting (oil) by Polly Castor) Don’t you love when you get a new perspective on something? It happened because I was listening to someone spiraling down, hovering over a cavernous abyss. Over the time I had been praying for her, God had brought her already through an astonishing amount, in beautiful … Read more
Quotidian Illumination (Quote by Holly Bridges Elliot)
I remember this illumination happening to me one noontime as I stood in the kitchen…
Spiritual Thoughts to Support Harmonious Travel
Let’s let travel expand our thought to include more good!
Getting Rid of Bland Denials of Truth
Be alert to any preoccupation with any limiting belief or any thought not based on goodness.
Overcoming Difficulties (Quote from Samuel Greenwood)
Without one’s consent, nothing outside of his own thoughts can prevent his prosperity or bar his progress.
Steps to Attain Answered Prayer
Detail from Breathe In (pastel) by Polly Castor “Prayer is what makes the resources of God available. God offers us all with outstretched hands. Steps for the attainment of answered prayer: A spiritual perception of divine resources. A mental laying hold of these resources by affirming their reality and our right to them. The continuance … Read more
Study the Ideal in order to Manifest it ( Quote from William D. McCracken)
Let’s familiarize ourselves with the ideal in order to manifest it.
Are You Perceiving Truth? (Quote by Hermann Hering)
Suppose yourself looking through blue glass at a white horse…
How to Overcome Regret
I have been hugely benefited by loosening the clutch of regret through forgiveness, reframing, and finding gratitude where I could. But more than anything, realizing I can reach for my high ideals in how I behave right now, and respond in each present moment with the greatest integrity, kindness, and initiative, helps me to avoid regret in the future.
Take up the Cross (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Cruciform #5 (acrylic) by Polly Castor Take up the Cross Jesus did not vicariously shoulder and endure the cross for us. He was showing us what we must also do, and even said that if we don’t carry our own cross we cannot be his disciple. Material sense hates spirituality, and tries to rebuke it … Read more