Tag: faith
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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October 08, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
The labyrinth shows me that my path will lead me to God without fail, without danger. I will not be lost. Even when I do not know where I am, the path leads me to God, for I set my intention to seek God . . .
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April 28, 2007 02:54 AM EDT --
The town I live in has a problem with West Nile Virus. It isn't a big problem, unless you get it, but then, look out. For ordinary people, the best hope is to die, because if somebody takes you to . . .
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August 15, 2007 08:56 AM EDT --
This is the first of a series of articles about A Course in Miracles. In it, I describe the road that led to my reading ACIM.
I've been a seeker all of my life. Some of my earliest memories . . .
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August 15, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
A Course in Miracles is divided into several sections. The section on which these articles focus is the "Workbook for Students." It contains 365 lessons, one for each day of the year.
A few . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
This is the third in a series of articles about A Course in Miracles.
Years ago, a friend asked me "Where is God?"
I looked around the room in confusion. I couldn't put a "where" . . .
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August 19, 2007 01:05 PM EDT --
This is the fourth of a series of articles about A Course in Miracles.
"Why am I here?" The question is ancient and universal. Religions seek to answer it with varying degrees of success. ACIM . . .
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May 18, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Something made me really angry today. Not a little pissed, but blindly enraged, ferociously, murderously angry.
I know it is unhealthy for me to be angry. I know I should love the person I see as the . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
The Mother of my dear husband has come to live with us. I highly recommend such an arrangement for anyone actively seeking spiritual growth.
If that sounds like a sideways slam at my mother-in-law, . . .
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December 30, 2007 11:58 AM EST --
How can you stand her? The aunt/cousin/uncle/mother/father/drama queen relative rears his or her ugly head, and we ask that question. This is how I figure it:
Ninety-nine percent of the time, the problem . . .
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October 26, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
For the first 40 years of so of my life, I considered myself a Christian. I was a member of numerous congregations of two major denominations during my travels through life, ending up in the Episcopal . . .
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April 21, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
Authorities in San Angelo, Texas announced that young children taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch will be separated from their mothers after DNA testing next week. The children, whose parents are members . . .
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December 08, 2007 05:16 PM EST --
One of our neighbors keeps a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe in her yard. Every year about this time, they have a celebration for the virgin's birthday, and to commemorate her apparition to Juan . . .
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April 13, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
My reading last week in A Course in Miracles was Lesson 335 in the workbook or students: "I choose to see my borther's sinlessness." I often tend to gloss over the titles and head for the . . .
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June 22, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
Here are five truly bad ideas guaranteed to make life hell:
1. God will only love me if I am good/perfect.
2. God will punish me if I am not good/perfect.
I call these two ideas "The Heresy . . .
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August 27, 2007 09:41 AM EDT --
More often than not, it isn't.
If I could stop trying to make the world go there, I could be happy.
When the conversation stops as I enter a room, they were probably talking about something else. . . .
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April 28, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
Before I go back to my oil and ges wells, I thought I'd share a slice of life with you:
The breeze was warm and gentle
when I hung the red sheets on the line.
You can see them a block away, . . .
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June 13, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
No one who knows me could think I support the war in Iraq. That would make me a peacemaker, right? Hardly.
They say charity begins at home.
So does peace.
When the bible talks about beating swords . . .
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January 01, 2008 02:31 AM EST --
I'm not going to loose weight, or exercise more, or make more money or get a better job. There is nothing wrong with those things. I might even do them. But this year, I have a resolution that I don't . . .
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May 11, 2007 02:42 PM EDT --
Here is one of those questions I'll have to put in the "Glad I don't have to answer it" column, but I can't get it off my mind for other reasons.
Emilio Gonzalez is a terminally . . .
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October 04, 2007 08:49 PM EDT --
On my travels through town this week, I started noticing signs in people's yards that read "Pray to end abortion."
"All right, I thought, Dear God, please make it unnecessary for women . . .
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