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Spiritual Growth: Prayer and Meditation

In a previous posting, Musings-  God and Chicken Soup, I mentioned that I had been involved in presenting a workshop about prayer and meditation.  I use both of these activities/tools to help me through each day and to develop my spiritual growth through relationship with the God of my understanding.  There are many people in my circle of friends who also pray and meditate and because we recognize that there is a growing hunger for the Spirit, we decided to put on the workshop.

We had an ordained minister, Amy, who agreed to talk about using prayer in every day . . . → Read More: Spiritual Growth: Prayer and Meditation

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Shared Wisdom: Some More Pearls

This, of necessity, will be a short posting as I am preparing to go out of town for the weekend.  But I couldn’t leave without sharing these pearls of wisdom.

 

“Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”      Guillaume Apollinaire           (WOW!!!)

 

“Truth does not oppose falsehood.  It waits patiently, quietly, yet with open arms.”       Paul Ferrini

“We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.”       Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard

 

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had . . . → Read More: Shared Wisdom: Some More Pearls

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Spiritual Growth: Forgiveness

I came across some notes that I took during the course of a retreat.  The speakers had been presenting their views on forgiveness.  These are the notes that I made during the presentations.

 

-  Forgiveness:  the warm fuzzy feeling doesn’t happen immediately – maybe never.  The important thing is to make the decision to forgive because it is the    right thing to do, for God and for us.  And most times we have to make that decision on a daily basis for a long time before any peacefulness about     the situation or the person comes into our . . . → Read More: Spiritual Growth: Forgiveness