Tag: faith
group name: findingfaith
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March 22, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
Metaphorically, we've all had "crucifixions and resurrections", if we've lived long enough. Whether it was a divorce or a devastating illness, we probably thought that . . . more
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December 08, 2007 11:36 AM EST --
What if you were to learn that Jesus did not come from a virgin birth—that Mary conceived him just as most of us were conceived?Would that have any affect on your faith? Would it change the way . . . more
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September 13, 2006 11:28 AM EDT --
I want to believe in God.
I pray almost every day and I try to do it selflessly. I never pray for things for myself - certainly not money or success or for my favorite sports teams to win. I pray for . . . more
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September 16, 2006 12:03 AM EDT --
From the first grade through the twelfth, I attended Catholic school. St. Ignatius was the school in my small town when I began. The school closed after my fourth grade year and I was bussed to the next . . . more
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January 12, 2008 01:43 PM EST --
After taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays, I am back with another topic for contemplation and discussion. The Spirituality Explorers' Discussion Topic for this week is:
Why is there . . . more
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September 26, 2006 03:57 PM EDT --
Can I get a guarantee?
A promise to give solace in the dark.
A hope to cling to blindly
An arrow painted on my lonely path.
There's a manual, why can't I follow it?
Why are the words . . . more
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September 19, 2006 01:42 PM EDT --
One of the things that has always stood in the way of my faith has been my education, so to speak. While I have never tried to focus in on the debate between science and religion, I always heard . . . more
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September 03, 2007 03:55 PM EDT --
The next topic for discussion in the "Spirituality Explorers" group is "Acts of God". You've seen insurance policies that claim no liability for an "act of god." What . . . more
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September 20, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
Ralph Waldo Emerson said this of God’s method of communication—“God Himself does not speak prose, but communicates with us by hints, omens, inferences, and dark resemblances in objects . . . more
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February 03, 2008 03:59 PM EST --
My husband needs to have a CT scan of his liver and kidneys. A blood test and ultrasound came back showing that his liver was enlarged and he had a lesion on one kidney and a cyst on the other. They . . . more
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December 12, 2007 02:47 PM EST --
Near Christmas I often remember the last night I worked before driving to Missouri to spend the holiday with my mother that year. I wasn't in ICU that night. The 'step down' telemetry unit . . . more
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March 11, 2007 01:32 AM EST --
The past week was a really stressful time. The closest thing to explain my state is to draw an analogy to a farmer that lost most of his crop after a whole year of labor and prayer, he . . . more
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December 10, 2007 11:58 AM EST --
Picture this: Three American strangers in post 9/11 NYC, a Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian agree to meet and establish honest discourse about each other's faiths. Their purpose? Creating a book . . . more
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September 11, 2007 08:00 PM EDT --
Not long after the horrific events that occurred six years ago today, I heard several people ask, "Where was God on 9/11?" The best answer to that question came from a young woman who lived . . . more
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December 24, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
THIS IS A FIRE RAINBOW - ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL NATURALLY OCCURING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA. The Photograph was sent to me by a friend requesting me to share the beauty.
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September 26, 2006 05:44 PM EDT --
I had grown up going to church. But after college I moved, got married, started to raise a family and got a divorce. I decided to move back home with my two daughters. After getting a job I began to settle . . . more
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August 03, 2007 07:53 AM EDT --
When I was an adolescent growing up in a small Kansas town, I sometimes dreamt of becoming a nun--even though I was not Catholic. My cousin, Virginia, had given her life to God and went off to a convent. . . . more
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October 09, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
On August 30, 2003, Robert Rogers and his wife and four children were driving from Wichita to their home near Kansas City, Missouri. They had attended a wedding in Wichita and now, with the children (all . . . more
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September 09, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
I've always believed that if people of different religions sat down with one another and talked, we would have far less wars and many more friendships. Maybe that's why I enjoyed the book, The . . . more
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April 09, 2007 10:32 PM EDT --
© 2007 James A. Harris
Do you remember the "Where's Waldo?" books created by the British illustrator Martin Handford? In every page of the books the cartoon character Waldo was hidden . . . more
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