Tag: love
group name: exploringspirit
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November 21, 2008 11:29 AM EST --
I was sitting with a group of friends recently and the topic of Gay people in the church came up with one lady bemoaning the fact that a gay couple had taken a "leadership" role in their church. . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:06 PM EDT --
It's been two weeks since I took my mother to see her oldest brother who was in the hospital. Since my mom has dementia, I wasn't sure how she would react to seeing her brother in the hospital . . .
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November 03, 2007 06:59 PM EDT --
My friend Phil is dying. He may last the weekend, he may not. He's in hospice as of this writing. It's been 4 years coming, not untypical of warriors like Phil who endure the tyranny of cancer, . . .
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June 14, 2008 01:14 PM EDT --
As a writer, I have always been a dreamer. And I am not ashamed of it, nor do I wish that it was not so. But the older I get and the more experience in the reality of the life experience, . . .
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June 30, 2008 01:58 PM EDT --
I consider myself a very contemporary thinker and well versed in the scientific method. In fact, I believe that I am ahead of most even well educated moderns in this respect. However, . . .
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August 16, 2008 09:51 PM EDT --
If we truly knew ourselves we would laugh and laugh and go through life with a smile. To truly know ourselves we must go within - within to the silence. Silence is the beauty of action; and . . .
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December 01, 2007 01:49 PM EST --
I've often reflected that love, the desire to extend ourselves to one another, is proof of God's existence. The notion is concentric with "God is Love". Certainly our being alive and . . .
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June 18, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
Millions of people pray every day in supplication to a "higher power." But does it do anything other than assuage their sense of hopelessness and give them a sense of hope? . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
I just recently returned from visiting my mother in her assisted living facility, which is filled with many patients who suffer from Alzheimer's Disease, and other forms of dementia. As always on my . . .
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October 28, 2007 02:33 PM EDT --
This is a complicated question with no simple answer. Many have had near death experiences. That gives us some clue. Many people have their belief system.
I haven’t had . . .
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May 30, 2008 12:53 AM EDT --
To my wonderful, extraordinary friends at gather.
After I wrote my last piece, and that last piece certainly represented the state I was in, something shifted. For ten years, really, or even longer, . . .
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July 25, 2008 10:17 AM EDT --
I recieved this post in my email this morning. It feels to me like confirmation. I have cut and pasted the entire post because I believe as long as I do this, I have permission to repost it or forward . . .
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October 29, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
This morning, Buddy is still with us, hanging on the apex. Could go in either way. So without more to do than I have done, I want to share with you an awesome time I had with Buddy last March of . . .
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February 17, 2008 08:51 AM EST --
The weekly discussion topic for the "Spirituality Explorers" is "RELIGION". How could something that, on the one hand, teaches love and compassion, be on the other hand the . . .
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June 01, 2007 09:57 PM EDT --
written by my wonderful sister, Lynne
to comfort my brother,
the year before the passing of our mother.
I don't for one minute believe that the body in the wheelchair . . .
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April 05, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
I ran to You so fast
And hard, I couldn't catch
My breath.
I threw myself on You
And told You a story of
Demons.
They are following me,
I panted, squeezing air
From . . .
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December 15, 2007 11:23 PM EST --
Already this Christmas I have received many lovely and treasured cards. However, the one I want to share with you was selected by my daughter. A rather small card really, and simple in design. . . .
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March 20, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Do Unto Others - the Underlying Principle of Life and How to Live It
by David Keating
If you've ever thought that religion was just too full of pointless rituals and rules, you're not . . .
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July 24, 2008 05:43 PM EDT --
For anyone who knows me personally, I have made no secret of the fact that where I am living, this city, if not the last place on Earth I would want to live, but it is certianly at the bottom of the list. . . .
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February 11, 2008 01:44 AM EST --
gamble everything for love,
if you want what visible reality
can give, you're an employee.
if you want the unseen world,
your not living your truth.
both wishes are foolish, . . .
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