Blog Posts containing "spiritual"

Our God is not a loveless power, nor a powerless love. Our God is the Power that is in Love. God loves us too much to leave us where we are.  Read more

Rational understanding acts on its feelings about what happens. Spiritual understanding acts on how it feels in what happens.  Read more

Rational understanding attempts to love others so God will love us. Spiritual understanding knows Jesus loved us by being in the Fathers Love. We must be in the Love of God before we try to love others. Do you understand the difference between trying to love someone to be loved and being loved in order to love someone?  Read more

Why did the disciples respond immediately when Jesus called them? Rational understanding would say Peter, Andrew, John and James all knew Jesus. It was as if they had grown up together, played in the sand, and worked in the carpenter's shop. Spiritual understanding would say, give me a break! They did not live that close to each other. They may have seen Him afar. But you cannot tell me they immediately left their nets to follow him because they were the "best of friends". Come off of it! There was something else going on there.  Read more

Sometimes we get deeper insights when we treat the scripture in CIA fashion. We check out the usual suspects, examine the evidence rationally and then look for the clues consciously. Today's scripture calls for such an investigation.  Read more

Our human nature is based on, "our thoughts create our feelings of God's Love about what happens to us." When what happens to us goes well, we feel at Peace. If what happens to us does not go well, we must change the event to feel at Peace. The problem arises because if we cannot change the event, we will feel upset. The good news is, while we cannot change human nature, we can transcend it.   Read more

Life is made up of three things, our rational thoughts, our conscious sensing and our spiritual Presence. How we deal with these three, about or in what happens to us, creates our life. We can choose to depend on our rational thoughts to create our feelings about life or we can consciously find the feeling of our inner Presence which will create the thought in the problem.  Read more

The problem is people who want to feel good are looking on the outside rather than on the inside to find the presence of God. If you have spiritual intelligence, you are working a twelve-step program. And if you are working a twelve-step program, you have spiritual intelligence.  Read more

When people come into a marriage they exhibit five C's: (1) good communication, (2) good commitment, (3) good compatibility (4) good cohesion, and (5) they have good communion (intimacy).  Read more

Many self esteem programs work with external affirmations. Most professionals would agree it is better for a person to look within rather than outside themselves. The fact is we all have an inner peace. Accessing this inner peace can be taught All dysfunctional behavior is caused by insecurity. Learning to access the inner peace is the key to eliminating all psychological problems dysfunctional behavior Sin and separation from God.  Read more