Living In Spirit

Most understand secular law, break one and get caught; there is a price to pay. Whether it is traffic, criminal, business, tax etc a ...

Living in Southern California one of the joys of life is driving down Pacific Coast Highway. Watching pelicans dive for their dinner,...

“Live in today, and do not allow yourself to live in the past under any pretense. Living in the past means thinking about the past, r...

Remember Alfred E. Newman of Mad magazine fame? His gap toothed grin gracing every cover with the caption “What, me worry?” Alfred can ...

Sometime ago during a genial conversation on spiritual principles a participant tossed out the comment  “I don’t trouble God with the ...

When we travel down the road of indignation, self-righteousness, fear, hateful and/or angry words and thoughts we invariably find ou...

We have all done it and regretted it afterwards. We are either drawn into or feel the need to volunteer our help or opinion in someone...

Recipes are typically associated with cooking. However virtually everything in life has a “recipe.” Plastics are very different in th...

A necessary part of true intelligence is the study of history. Studying history enables us to observe today’s events and relate to the...

Try to lose weight. Try to get in shape. Try to quit smoking. Trying to get organized. Trying to be on time. Trying isn’t it. We have ...

“Living life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning to play the instrument as we go along” naked. No rational person b...

The secular world clamors with solutions to all our problems and concerns. Call this number and all your financial difficulties will v...

In Latin inspiratio means "to breathe in." From this root many words have bloomed, two of which are inspiration and respira...

Some time ago I had a conversation (berating more accurately) with an “adamant” my way or the highway Christian. You have probably me...

Often we fail to measure the words we use or take the time to consider their ultimate impact. We have all experienced the sick feeling ...

As a younger man I wore the coat of the agnostic. Having heard so many say that God was love but if you broke a certain rule you would...

I began paying attention to American politics in 1968 and came of age politically during the election of 1972. In the ensuing years on...

A centipede was quite happy, Until a frog in fun Said, “Pray, which leg comes after which?” This raised her mind to such a pitch, S...

Earlier today someone I don’t know or have ever had any contact with commented on one of my daily spiritual posts that I needed medical ...

 Did you smile at someone today? In the last few decades a number of studies have shown even a forced smile has positive affects not ...

When we find ourselves drifting out of the present moment, by either dwelling on the past or projecting into the future we must be war...

When we turn 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 ever...

Conditions in our life are the result of the crops (thoughts) we tend in our consciousness. If we nurture thoughts of pain, lack, unh...

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

“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 is ...

When there is nowhere left to turn, turn around, for God is always there. When in the grip of fear, pray lightly, with a feathers tou...

Though an agnostic with an “attitude”well into my 30’s, I had always been a seeker, often looking in the wrong places however. One of ...

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

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 t...

“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 i...

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...

We cannot have our indignation or “justified” anger and live on the spiritual basis. If we wish to comprehend serenity and know peace...

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

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

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

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

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

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 decide...

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

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 wrec...

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 ki...

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 announ...

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

Everyone daydreams, of what do you dream? Thoughts are causative, the thoughts we entertain will find out picturing in our lives. Now,...

Having been a spiritual mentor for many years, there is no more painful word to hear from a student then but . It matters little whethe...

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 you...

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

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