Living In Spirit

    When we turned our will and life over to the care of God, we chose the consecrated life. Our job now is to see the Presence of God ev...

     Conditions in our life are the result of the crops (thoughts) we plant in our consciousness. If we plant pain, lack, unhappiness, ...

     Since childhood we have heard that hard work equals success. Yet I think we can all point to someone, perhaps that someone gazes back f...

    “Cheap optimism is never spiritual.” Never be satisfied or resign yourself to live with anything less than the full expression of Go...

       Do you pray expecting to receive, or with trepidation? When we pray with doubt, believing secretly in our heart of hearts that God...

When there is nowhere left to turn, turn around, for God is always there. When in the grips of fear, pray with a feather. When faci...

     Even though I was an agnostic with an “attitude” into my 30’s, I had always been a seeker, often looking in the wrong places however. O...

   We lay   “claim” to things everyday, usually without a thought. Whenever we start a statement with “My”, we claim ownership. Having ...

    Everyday somewhere a plane departs in the rain. The aircraft pulls away from the gate and takes its place in line for lift off. Soon...

  “We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it ...

    You are actively engaged in daily prayer, meditation and service, have given your will and life over to the care of a Power Greater T...

     You cannot have your indignation or live with “justified” anger and live on the spiritual basis, if you wish to comprehend serenity ...

     I have not always prayed. Sure, there were those furtive pleas of “please let me pass this (math, English, history, etc) test”, “ple...

     It is recommended to “pray with a feather” for prayer should never be hard work; it is our time to speak with God. When praying d...

     Everything is connected. The belief that a problem or difficulty exists in one place and must be brought to God’s attention is false. G...

     A treatment is a prayer directed at a definite subject, something that is a pressing problem. Unlike general prayers that are a visi...

     Some hold that it is selfish and wastes of time to pray for ones self, but how could it be? “Praying for ourselves is the reverse of...

    The hen lays her eggs, and then keeps them warm and safe until they hatch. What would happen if half way through the process she deci...

     Now that we have been on the path of spiritual living for a time, what is our course when now faced with a serious problem or diffic...

    Do you have to “find” time to pray and meditate? Really? What can possibly be more important than your time with the Miraculous? Now ...

      Fate, as a conscious power, is a convenient catch all for those confused or unwilling to do the work necessary to clear away the wr...

    What we dwell on defines the course of our thinking. When we dwell on thoughts of “my bad luck”, “I’ll never find a good job”, “the k...

      We have decided to make a change in our lives. Perhaps it is quitting smoking. We throw away our smokes (or smoke them up) and anno...

         The world provides a myriad of answers and solutions for the problems and challenges in our lives.   Watch TV, listen to the radio ...

 1.  I will not help you to stay and wallow in limbo.  2.  I will help you to grow, to become more productive, by your definition.  3....

      Everyone daydreams, of what do you dream? Thoughts are causative, the thoughts we entertain will find out picturing in our lives. No...

     Having been a spiritual adviser for most of my life, there is no more painful word to hear from a student then but . It matters little ...

       Do you believe God wants you to succeed?   Or do you harbor some lingering belief that God is a trickster waiting to punish or harm...

     When considering our relationship with God, one of the simplest and best-known metaphors defining that relationship is man is the sp...

       What is beyond God’s purview? Money? Healing? Peace of mind? Love? Serenity? Anything? There are many avenues of delivery but ther...

     Set aside some time each week to be disconnected from the world. Turn off the phones (all of them), put the computer in hibernate a...

        When facing a seemingly insurmountable challenge in life, finding our back against the wall, all secular answers and escape route...

    The spiritual principle of reaping and sowing is universal. Every spiritual path teaches this lesson, those past and present, using e...

       Justified anger. Righteous indignation. When angry, outraged, indignant, upset or offended, who pays the price? We do. Sure, we may v...

      We are constantly building up or tearing down our mental structure by the things we ingest. Books, magazines and newspapers read, conv...

      “Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future” Fulton Oursler. When in the grip ...

      If you could receive three gifts, what would they be? Riches? A perfect body unaffected by any food consumed or lack of exercise? Y...

        Ever wonder where the phrase One Day At A Time came from? Alcoholics Anonymous? Nope, they just popularized it. Emmet Fox was t...

       Coffee shop theorists, cable TV “experts”, politicians, barroom philosophers and chat room world leaders. Many believe that chang...

       Tidal flows in our spiritual unfolding are disconcerting. Things are going well, we feel connected, in Source, not a cloud on the hor...

     Walking the way we talk. When we espouse one thing but act in a contrary manner not only does it make us look untrustworthy but also...

        Chances are you would not be reading this unless you have an affinity for spiritual writing and teachers. How many “spiritual” boo...

      Teachers of spiritual principles and living agree on this point: freedom comes when limitation is overcome. On the surface the dif...

Focused Meditation: Here we have a specific problem, difficulty or question we are seeking to understand. As before find a quiet place w...

       Meditation is a topic that seems to cause much unnecessary grief and consternation. Many hold to the false belief that meditation is ...

        In court people take the stand to give testimony, to witness for either the defense or prosecution in criminal and civil cases....

        When we first experience the gifts from Living on the Spiritual Basis, it is natural to want more. In short order we begin to reach ...