Wanna become like God? It is likely that you will find a joyously abundant treasure trove of relevant lessons by looking back on the struggles of growing up, romantic adventures, marriage and child-rearing, caring for aging parents, and present relationships with immediate family and extended …
The Easy Version
Let’s Help Construct a New Philosophy of Living—and Grow How would you express your current philosophy of living? Would you like to develop it further? Here’s an opportunity to do so based on the idea that thinking aspires to truth, feeling responds to beauty, and doing can be governed by …
Using Spiritual Force
The podcast episode: http://traffic.libsyn.com/universalfamily/Using_Spiritual_Force_27.mp3 We live in a day when many theater directors take liberties with classics, for example, with plays of Shakespeare. But what about the Book of Job? What if we take some liberty here? In this …
Divine positive attitudes
Problems are more likely to be overwhelming when multiple kinds of problem are tangled together: uncertainty, disappointment, apparent defeat, the sheer difficulty of what is to be done, the immensity of the task, and the inexplicable in a situation. How do you learn the matching positive …
Civil Wars
The United States of America is being torn by a civil war of clashing minds involving not only starkly differing ideas but also anger, contempt, and hatred. A war need not involve military force in order to be profoundly divisive and destructive. The remedy I propose has implications for …
Is love stronger than hate?
Are love, mercy, and ministry stronger than hate, anger, and violence? Let’s be clear: love, here, means divine love, the love of God. As we open ourselves to receive his love, we naturally love him in return. We also return his love by loving the neighbor as ourselves. Mercy means a wise and fair …
