Do you ever find yourself at a loss of things to say when someone tells you that a person close to you or to them has died? Last week a friend of mine from many years ago passed along to her Great Reward. Unfortunately for health reasons I was not able to attend her Going ...
Continue reading about Resting in Peace – a brief prayer for the departed
When you have read this prayer, what will you do next? Peace Around Us All As we are together, praying for peace, let us be truly with each other. Let us pay attention to our breathing. Let us be relaxed in our bodies and our minds. Let us return to ourselves and become wholly ...
God of Peace, You are familiar with our troubles and our weakness. And yet – at the very bottom of our soul – you have placed your Holy Spirit. He does not accuse, but consoles us, And upholds our will so that you may live by your love. – Amen
Continue reading about Consolation Within Our Weakness – a prayer
Prayers and meditations are not always spoken word. Sometimes they’re silent. Sometimes shouts of laughter. Sometimes the garbled incoherence of our weeping soul. Prayers and meditations are not always communication with God and Jesus, and are instead the expression through our body of our relationship with the world, with the universe, with that which we ...
Even though I have seen miraculous healing in my travels, I do not believe in miracle healers. At least not on this side of heaven. There’s even a school in South Carolina where you can go to now to learn to be a faith healer. I don’t believe – in the unseen parts of the ...
Continue reading about How to Pray (When it can’t be fixed, put right, or healed)
