Tag: spirituality
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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May 07, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
I hate this war.
I thought at first it was a knee-jerk reaction because I was a teenager during the worst of the Viet Nam tragedy. It's not. I hate this war.
I hate it because from the very beginning, . . .
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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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June 04, 2007 07:26 PM EDT --
It seems like I remember being told that if I took care of the little things, the big things would fall into place. So far, it seems to be working out.
It's a little thing to tell your husband you . . .
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September 12, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
You've had a day like mine. I know it.
At the crack of dawn, the alarm clock goes off, like it does every morning, and it is time to head off to the pool to swim my mile. Only today, I don't wanna. . . .
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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, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
This is a repost from April 2007, But I think it is still valid:
On Friday, in Houston, a 60-year-old engineer carried a gun into NASA, took two co-workers hostage, and ended up killing one along with . . .
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May 19, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
Geez. I'm tempted to give you five qualities about which I am positive, but here goes.
1. I'm loyal. It's pretty simple, I don't turn my back on people, friends, neighbors, family. Couldn't . . .
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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 20, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
Recently, my bank merged with another small bank. Until then, it had been under the same ownership for about 150 years. This week, we received a mailing from the bank telling us how things were going to . . .
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