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Give Yourself the Gift of Gratitude
“I tried for years to flip off the negative-attitude switch and click on joy,” my friend Paul told...
What’s In Your Spiritual Toolbox?
"What's that cedar box in your living room?" I asked my aunt. "It's my hope chest," Auntie...
The Courage to Be Yourself
I’m going to be straight up honest with you. I’m scared—a lot. I’m scared of roller coasters, bears, being late for work, criticism, crashing my car, loved ones dying, pandemics, getting cancer, having a heart attack, shark attacks, screwing up, and mean people. Just...
Don’t Choke. You ARE Good Soil
“I feel like I’m choking.” Paul grasped his throat. “I’m anxious about Covid. I’m fearful of the violence in the streets. I’m tired of the media spewing biased news. Even the spiritual leaders I look up to have turned their voices into rhetoric steeped with...
Experience the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection
People often ask, “How do I move beyond mere intellectual knowledge about God and experience God?” Put another way, “If God is real, how does the Divine communicate with me?” Paul Smith, author of Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve, offers a path...
The Art of Letting God Love You
During his forty days of prayer and fasting as depicted in the blockbuster movie, Last Days in the Desert, Jesus meets a young boy struggling to free himself from the inner voices that keep telling him he is bad. Eventually, the boy gathered the wisdom and...
Here’s a Way to “Find Your Center”
When the apostles went to Jesus and asked him to teach them to pray, they observed how Jesus went into solitude each day to be alone with his Father (Luke 11: 1-13). Jesus gained wisdom, guidance, and affirmation from his Father, which flowed naturally into his daily...
Practice The Presence of God
In our Christian tradition and perhaps in other faith traditions, we’ve lost sight of the “practices” that allow us to experience the presence of God in mind, body, and spirit. Just like we go for walks to exercise our bodies, stretch our muscles or work-out to help...