Tag: spirituality
group name: findingfaith
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May 16, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
Im not alright, im not fine.
Ok, im sure most of you read my other story "From Atheist to Christian".
well i reread that story an you know I made it sound like everything was fine before it . . . more
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March 01, 2008 12:17 PM EST --
I have heard a number of different definitions for prayer and, of course, there are just as many kinds of prayers and ways to pray. Some say that prayer is something we do to change God's mind; . . . more
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November 02, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
The "Spirituality Explorers" discussion question for this week is: What one book, other than the Bible, has been the greatest inspiration to you, and why? How has this book affected your life? . . . 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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November 03, 2007 06:59 PM EDT --
My friend Phil is dying. He may last the weekend, he may not. He's in hospice as of this writing. It's been 4 years coming, not untypical of warriors like Phil who endure the tyranny of cancer, . . . more
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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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May 23, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
You dont have to read this "loser" blog......but now that I think
about it maybe we all have a little bit of loser inside of us.
Maybe being happy isn't have everything in your life be . . . 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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December 01, 2007 01:49 PM EST --
I've often reflected that love, the desire to extend ourselves to one another, is proof of God's existence. The notion is concentric with "God is Love". Certainly our being alive and . . . 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 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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June 01, 2007 09:09 PM EDT --
My name is Leslie, an I am feeling very low right now. An i'm not doing well.
For the past seven years I have had to live with depression, an guilt an shame an humiliation of a traumatized past.
But . . . more
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February 12, 2007 11:25 PM EST --
I am a man that sees the world as it is, not as it was or how it will be, simply as it is. And I not only see but also feel a lot of hurt and a lot of pain from things beyond my control. I just pray for . . . 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 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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November 21, 2007 09:15 AM EST --
Happy Thanksgiving to All
I usually don’t write something like this to the masses, but as I was thinking about the things I am thankful . . . more
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December 19, 2006 08:04 AM EST --
Not a rehearsal.
Grow,Give,Struggle,cry and laugh.
Not a rehearsal.
more
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