Prayer establishes your personal, private relationship with God. It is the greatest love relationship you will ever have; it may begin here, but it will not end here. Amazingly, it is eternal. When you pray, the hidden God will be gazing on you from eternity, and seeing not only where you are, but where God […]
Archives for March 2023
You Already Love God
You already love God. You just may not yet know it. But when you finally encounter God, you will discover love for God already present in you as a gift, which has been waiting to surface and change your life. That will be the time your life with God shall truly begin, for which there […]
Practice Gratitude
Much good would come if you began and ended each day focusing on that for which you are grateful. Melody Beattie said, “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. gratitude makes sense of our past, brings […]
Treat Everyone as a Treasure
Treat everyone as a treasure. Every person is in fact a unique work of art, with more in them than they imagine, let alone us. Sometimes our task is to help them discover and embrace what is already within them. As a part of that task, we may have to help them believe enough in […]
The Temple Invisible
It was at the end of 1967, while praying in my sister’s Chicago apartment, where I was spending the Christmas holiday, that an unseen door between this and the “other side” opened, and my soul was gently lifted up and guided into what would become the home of my heart for the next five years. […]
How to Approach God
Your image or understanding of God largely determines how you will approach God. And how you approach God, along with your expectations going in, significantly affect what happens or does not happen during and after an attempted prayer connection. The question is: how best to approach God? The answer is as simple as it is […]