A Newsletter for Your Spiritual Nature
Communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
Our spiritual nature is to hope and dream and visualize and to connect to our purpose in life. It’s the trigger that motivates us to encounter, discover, create, and synthesize meaning, purpose and values in our lives and to seek a greater good. It enables us to access unconscious aspects of the self and to embed these higher meanings, values, and purposes in living a richer and more creative life. It makes us whole, and gives us our integrity. It helps us ask fundamental questions and reframe our answers. It transforms us.
God sometimes communicates himself to us in a blazing light, at other times gently, veiled in symbols and imagery.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Faith - MY FAITH IS UNSHAKABLE.
The world seems to be changing more and more with each passing day. The changes may happen so fast, in fact, that I may feel shaken or even a little frightened.
At these times, I am grateful that my faith remains unshakable. No matter what is happening in the world around me, I can take refuge in the Truth, the enduring reality of God.
At other times in my life, I may have placed my faith in the things of the world only to be disappointed by their impermanence.
Worldly conditions will always come and go. Today I place my faith in the unchanging Truth of God. I believe that there is one presence and one power, which is absolute good. My faith is unshakable and stands me in good stead to weather whatever comes my way.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.—Hebrews 11:1
The pastor at my church often concludes the liturgical mass by reminding his congregation: "Don't spill the grace."
— Peter Reinhart in Bread Upon the Waters by Peter Reinhart
To Practice This Thought:
You carry precious cargo; watch your step.
King’s prophetic vision for racial justice was made possible by the “moral imagination” he learned through the Black church and faith. A moral imagination envisions a “new heaven and new earth,” where the “wolf and the lamb shall feed together,” and trusts that it will be made real (Isaiah 65). One day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed—we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans are created equal. Not to be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character. The crooked places shall be made straight and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. Transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. Knowing that we will be free one day.
May peace fill your life so love will overflow,
Rev Robert
(adapted from: Martin Luther King Jr., Kelly Brown Douglas)
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Thank you, Robert
Contemplative Interbeing
