I have tried over the years, not to influence others to take up a particular lifestyle, but to encourage them to follow whatever path they think would provide them with the best life possible, one built on family, faith, community and hard work. Whatever you are doing today, if it angle...
The imagery of pressing can also be seen as a metaphor for the trials and pressures that produce spiritual purity and devotion in the life of a believer. for the lightThe light refers to the lampstand in the Tabernacle, which was to burn continually. Light in the Bible often symbolizes ...
I can’t remember the last time I’ve been awake for and consciously attended to a sunrise. While it wasn’t a kind of spiritual experience for me in the way others have described it at Burning Man, I’m glad to have done it. Definitely memorable. Some other scattered impressions: Bik...
is weak and base in our society and all that contradicts the human spirit -- spiritual fatigue, inquisition of conscience, cruelty against the self, torture of the senses and condemnation of natural instinct; a hybrid product of decay in which the desperation for the human soul finds meaning....
undeniable life lessons, lessons that literally cost her everything. In life lesson number three, Bradstreet learns that material possessions are easy to gain, as well as loose. The poet struggles with the memories of her home and the thoughts of her things , her trunk and chest and every...
Everything else has a little less meaning. I think that’s the famous Steve Jobs graduation speech that was great. You can’t connect the dots looking forward, but you can always connect them looking backwards. When you’re at a place of deep presence and you allow yourself to just go ...
we’ve even been granted some of that humidity we’ve all heard so much about but rarely experience. We needed a reprieve from this heat and occasionally muggy air. SeeingFitz and The Tantrums’recent performance at the Arizona Financial Theatre was a spiritual amnesty — a stay of execution...
Hemightofalljustlybereft Butyetsufficientforusleft. WhenbytheRuinsoftIpast Mysorrowingeyesasidedidcast Andhereandtheretheplacesspy WhereoftIsateandlongdidlie. HerestoodthatTrunk,andtherethatchest, TherelaythatstoreIcountedbest, Mypleasantthingsinasheslie AndthembeholdnomoreshallI. Undertheroofnoguestshall...
we’ve even been granted some of that humidity we’ve all heard so much about but rarely experience. We needed a reprieve from this heat and occasionally muggy air. SeeingFitz and The Tantrums’recent performance at the Arizona Financial Theatre was a spiritual amnesty — a stay of execution...