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Truth and the Wrayco workers
This morning around four, I found myself caught up in the jet stream of gospel energy, re-connecting with that feeling that I knew from decades ago when I began going forth to proclaim. Choosing to act on that surge of loving truth, I went back to Wrayco (see the previous blog post) to meet …
Visiting a plant after its closing was announced
The experience of these workers was a world away from what had first come to mind in my attempt to empathize with their prospect of unemployment. What a delight! As the morning light came into the pleasantly cool landscape, I met Jake, and then a man with whom I did not exchange names, and then …
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The creation of the soul
What does it mean that we are divinely created? God creates us through a three-fold process: first, through cosmic evolution leading to the body and mind; second, by acting directly to bestow a unique personality upon that body-mind system and to send his spirit to dwell within us; and third, by …
Two phases of creation, two ways of relating
Learning to love another person is so much easier when we conceive of our creation in two phases. On the one hand, the Creator God has designed an awesome, long drawn-out, gradual process of evolution. Our body and mind are products of this evolution. On the other hand, the Universal Father acts …
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Vacations that teach insight
Vacations! During World War I around Christmas time, 1914, a series of unofficial cease-fires occurred, and German, British, and French troops sang Christmas hymns and fraternized together. Next, consider lyrics from “Singing in the Rain”: “I'm singin' in the rain . . . What a glorious feelin', I'm …
