Psyche/Physical/Spiritual
This meditation journey is very exciting! It is as wild as any roller coaster ride and at times as pleasant as a lazy day on the beach! All of it is joyous because it celebrates life! And life, is worth celebrating even with all its ups and downs, its ecstasies and its horrors. With the…
Last week when I was trying to sort out my relationship with the people who were trying to decide what was freedom of speech for me and others in our congregation I kept thinking of “I Am A Child Of God” and I wrote this poem to follow its beat to remind me how grateful…
Functionality in this earthly realm is not the ultimate state that the human being is able to achieve. To stop there in the place of “comfort” or lack of “stress” is a sad state of affairs. We were sent here to do great things in the name of the God who sent us, even as…
There are three things that keep us from seeking after eternal life. They “choke the word”, meaning the word of God, and we are not able to go after that which has eternal consequence. Mark 4:19 “And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in,…
I watch a site on facebook that supports vets and fights for there battle against suicide among their ranks. I empathize with the struggle but have been forced to ask myself if pain for the circumstances of this world…of which war is a part…is not a waste of energy, a vanity if you will, in…
Satan will tempt you with the lusts of the body to keep you from the work you were called to do, which is to testify of Jesus Christ and of God’s love for mankind. Whether those temptations are physically acted on or just allowed to set up housekeeping in the corridors of your mind, it…
That is why is is so imperative that we recognize our total dependence on God and that all else is circumstantial. This is a curious study to me… http://www.upworthy.com/take-two-normal-people-add-money-to-just-one-of-them-and-watch-what-happens-next?c=cp1 He states altruism leads to greater freedom but we tend to push this attitude away the more we prosper…so say the scriptures as well…when we prosper…
Freedom basics as presented by our Savior, Jesus Christ, are autonomy. Merriam-Webster Definition of AUTONOMY 1: the quality or state of being self-governing; especially : the right of self-government 2: self-directing freedom and especially moral independence 3: a self-governing state He said we are to love others as we love ourselves so we must have…
You know how when you were a child you only had to cover your eyes and you thought that you could not be seen? Then as you become a teen you begin to feel like everybody is looking at you and you are certain they are staring at that zit on your chin or your…
(Note: I am a woman who is currently 56 years of age and find myself in the middle of life with children grown and aging/deceased parents. I am also of reasonable good health at this time. This list consists the places that I recognize that there is “unusual stress” in my life. It may or may…