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 …
Ungainly Flapping
Ungainly flapping. Only in mercy so thick could I take flight. Heavy heron wings, moving slowly—why would any flock of birds follow? Yet I fly to you unconcerned. By you, with you, and in you, I dive into the water, having glimpsed a fish and heard: “Come to me, all you who labor and are …
Receiving God’s love
We know we need to receive God’s love, but sometimes we don’t make the time or don’t know how. The simplest way is to accept the personal assurance: God is love, and his spirit gift lives within you. A longer way: we know God, and we can activate our God-knowingness. We can also ponder the meaning …
God as the reality of values
Sometimes I allow myself to get caught up in an unbeautiful emotion, one that does not fit the truth of the situation, and is not dominated by goodness. At such times, I have allowed some secondary material value or intellectual value to eclipse my loyalty to spiritual values. But I am learning to …
Seven principles of powerful prayer
[If you prefer the podcast episode] After extending the date for closing the plant from January 31 to February 24, Wrayco has almost come to its last day. I was out there this morning as the employees were coming in to work, offering my help to anyone who might be looking for a job, and handing out …
What is God saying to our world?
[Here's the podcast.] A few friends have told me that once in their lives they heard, unmistakably heard, the voice of God speak to them. Clear as day, not a muffled whisper, let alone an impressive phenomenon of mind. I had one of those experiences, too. At a critical time in my life, from the …
