Instead of filling my heart with Love, I filled it with self-serving self-pride. Stuff and status are the signs of success in our culture, and they became my values; my culture; my faith.
Tag Archives: spirituality
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Aug
Aug
I like dogs and I have many friends who love their dogs. But it was a feline, not a canine, that God would use to soften my hardened heart. A life wandering in darkness; a life without Love.
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Aug
Aug
Full of repentance and humility; thankfulness and gratitude; peace and love; I fully surrendered myself to God. To live a new life. A life of love that tries to honor God and all people, including people resistant to God’s unconditional love and unyielding grace like I once was.
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Jul
Jul
Recently, my friend Jess recommended the TV series The Chosen. An adaptation and depiction of the life of Jesus based on the Gospels. A program I would have ridiculed in my past life. Not only because of my non-existent belief in God, but because my heart was closed to feeling anything outside of itself.
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Jul
Jul
I have always considered myself to be a sensitive person. While other boys found pleasure in athletics and action hero’s, I found pleasure in the arts. My youth spent appreciating and learning about all the beauty that other humans have created. A smorgasbord for my senses.
Weekly Reflections
The Cowardly Church of America and the Spiritual Evil That Has Infected Our Ruling Class
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Jul
Jul
O America, America, the nation that kills millions and steals from the struggling! How often would I have gathered your children together as a parent gathers their child under a canopy of life and love, and you were not willing! This is a heavy-hearted story. A critique of the Establishment; political and religious. Leaders who […]
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May
May
I spent my entire teenage years pretending to be someone I wasn’t because I didn’t want to lose my reputation and my place in the world.
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Apr
Apr
While I deeply believe that God will provide, living my faith has been unsettling.
03
Apr
Apr
Spirituality adrift we wander in darkness. Searching for fulfillment in a world that aggressively suppresses the Divine. Squeezing our souls and draining us of our humanity. Like pressed fruit, we find ourselves empty, exhausted and exploited.
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Jan
Jan
Nothing seems to scare the modern world more than the idea that materialism is a flawed world view. A false god. A meaningless metaphysics. Not only is it flawed but it’s wreaking havoc on humanity and our home. The last century littered with examples of unprecedented global destruction and death. Our new century an ongoing […]
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