Archive for the ‘Self-development’ Category
“Find the place where your greatest love meets the world’s greatest need. Ask yourself – what is it that you love? and are you certain it will serve other people?” – Tom Sawyer – Advice to his daughter, Diane.
So my 7 week writing for the newsletter continues. I think I am having much fun with this. I am getting an opportunity to share myself a bit more in my spiritual community and I am learning in the mean time. The third week in the adventure is Physical Unfoldment…hope you enjoy…
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The next article I had to prepare for Adventure in Faith was Mental / Emotional Unfoldment. How fitting it was that Charles did the message on this particular week and everything worked on brilliantly. His message was on ACCOUNTABILITY….and it definitely hit on my topic….
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I was asked to share in the Newsletter for my church Adventure in Faith yearly event. This is a 7 week adventure in your physical and spiritual unfoldment. I wanted to share my articles with you, so I will each week, after they go through printing. Article 1 was written for Spiritual Unfoldment week.
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In this weeks’ meditation we spoke about LOVE. The power word that so many of us interpret in many different ways. In 1 Peter 1:22 we read “having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.”
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There once was a Rabbi who was asked by his students, “Teacher, how should one determine the hour when night ends and day begins?”
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This week we had the opportunity during meditation to look at our agreement with mediocrity. We defined this as the status quo or better yet the “good enough” state of being. Is is possible to suggest that good is the enemy of great?
Is it possible to ponder that perhaps the reason we don’t have great schools is because we have good schools? Or the reason we don’t have great government is because we have good government ?
As promised I wanted to give us both some time to chew or digest the first 7 steps to happiness that Neale Donald Walsch shared with us in his book – Happier than God. Thank you all for your feed back and letting us know were you are in the process of your “happiness unfoldment”
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If the hurtful event you attempt to release involved someone whose relationship you otherwise value then forgiveness can lead to reconciliation. However, this isn’t always the case. Reconciliation might be impossible if the offender has died or is unwilling to communicate with you. In some cases reconciliation might not be appropriate. Still forgiveness is possible — even if reconciliation isn’t.
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Why is it so easy to hold a grudge?
When you’re hurt by someone you love and trust, you might become angry, sad or confused. If you dwell on hurtful events or situations grudges filled with resentment, vengeance and hostility can take root. If you allow negative feelings to crowd out positive feelings you might find yourself swallowed up by your own bitterness or sense of injustice.
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