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Anchored in Gratitude
This Week's Quotation: Love is the way to walk in gratitude. And let your gratitude make room for all who will be freed with you: the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming...
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Denying Love Is Our Only Problem
This Week's Quotation: Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is...
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Ordinary Things With
Extraordinary LoveThis Week's Quotation: There have been many saints who have gone before to guide us, but I like the ones who are simple, like St. Therese of Lisieux. I chose her as my namesake because she did ordinary things...
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The Greater Works
This Week's Quotation: He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. ~(John 14:12) The Greater Works Jerry Kvasnicka,...
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Empowered Consciousness
This Week's Quotation: Every one of us already has the seed of mindfulness. The practice is to cultivate it. Yesterday is already gone. Tomorrow is not yet here. Today is the only day available to us; it is the...
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Celebrating Life
This Week's Quotation: This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Book of Psalms, 118:24 Celebrating Life Terri McCartney Let us rejoice and be glad in each new day!...
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Words as Blessings
This Week's Quotation: The scripture says, "We will eat the fruit of our words." Words are like seeds. You are planting seeds when you talk. At some point, you're going to eat that fruit. When you speak something out,...
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Being in God the Creator
This Week’s Quotation: In God we live and move and have our being. It is God who gives life to all, who gives power and being to all that exists. Consider that you are in God, surrounded and encompassed...
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God Alone is Enough
This Week's Quotation: Let nothing disturb you.Let nothing frighten you.All things pass away.God never changes.Patience obtains all things.They who have Godlack nothing.God alone is enough. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila God Alone is Enough Terri McCartney I...
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Radiance
This Week's Quotation: Radiance is the ever-expanding Essence of the Wonderful One made manifest in the body. Radiance is the Presence made visible in the world of physical things, that I AM THAT I AM may be known. ~...
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Everything is a Miracle
This Week's Quotation: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein Everything is a Miracle Terri McCartney...
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Spiritual Community
This Week's Quotation: An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ~ Martin Luther King Spiritual Community Terri McCartney ...
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Creative Fire
This Week’s Quotation: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also...
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Togetherness
This Week's Quotation: Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship.… So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~ Bahá'u'lláh Togetherness Terri McCartney...
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Rest in God
This Week's Quotation: I place the future in the hands of God. Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt. Accept...
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Where Peace Begins
This Week’s Quotation: What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. ~ Mother Teresa Where Peace Begins Jerry Kvasnicka, Be Peace! There are so many human efforts to bring peace to the...
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Wake Up Smiling
This Week's Quotation: Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…get up in the morning, and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible. Never treat life...
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Love is Everything
This Week's Quotation: If you are silent, keep silent for love. If you speak, speak for love. If you correct, correct for love. If you forgive, forgive for love. May the root of love be always in you because...
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Mystical Power
This Week's Quotation: Give the light, and the darkness will disappear by itself. ~ Desiderius Erasmus, 1500’s Catholic Priest Mystical Power Terri McCartney I treasure timeless gems, like this quote from Erasmus that reminds me of our...
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Wetiko
This Week’s Quotation: There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves, and that has the potential to destroy our species or to wake us up, depending on whether or not we recognize what it is...
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Glorifying God
This Week’s Quotation: Question: What is the chief end of man?Answer: Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. (Shorter Catechism of the Presbyterian Church) Glorifying God Jerry Kvasnicka, Enjoying the Creator I was...
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Pray Without Ceasing
This Week's Quotation: Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; ~ Romans 12:12 Pray Without Ceasing Terri McCartney Today I write about the most powerful tool in my spiritual repertoire: prayer—it is the...
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Living Life as an Experiment
This Week's Quotation: The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life. We are always in transition. If you can just relax...
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Unexpected Visitors
This Week's Quotation: This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep...
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Radiating Love
This Week's Quotation: Let’s get loose with compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambiance of love. An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ~ Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, Persian Mystic Radiating Love Terri McCartney I am on...
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It’s All Divine
This Week's Quotation: Behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ Luke 17:21 It’s All Divine Terri McCartney The kingdom of God is within us all. There are no exceptions! It’s just that those of us who...
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The Blessing of Diversity
This Week's Quotation: Consider the flowers of a garden. Though differing in kind, color, form, and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are refreshed by the waters of one spring, revived by the breath of one wind, invigorated by the rays...
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Shedding the Old
This Week's Quotation: And Jesus said unto them… And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. New wine is for...
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Spiritual Adulthood
This Week’s Quotation: It is time for us to step into spiritual adulthood and realize the true meaning of co-creationism: our divine light working with the divine light within creation. It is up to us: if we do not...
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The Way of Miracles
This Week's Quotation: The real miracle is to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle that we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the curious eyes of a child... All is...
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Revolutionary Love
This Week's Quotation: Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought: you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged. Creation is eternal and unalterable. Your...
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The Way of Kindness
This Week’s Quotation: Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments. ~ Talmud The Way of Kindness Katie-Grace Garnett Usually, when I am asked about the most important way of being, I feel it...
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Courage—An Essential Virtue for Our Time
This Week’s Quotation: Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:9 Courage—An Essential Virtue for Our Time Jerry Kvasnicka Finding...
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Laughter is Good Medicine
This Week's Quotation: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. ~ Dalia Lama Laughter is Good Medicine Terri McCartney, Soul Care Facilitator If you have been feeling laughter-deprived of...
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Sacred Pledge
This Week's Quotation: Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to...
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Little Things Mean a Lot
This Week’s Quotation: Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa Little Things Mean a Lot Jerry Kvasnicka Creating Flowers of Love Probably very few reading...
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A Decided Heart
This Week’s Quotation: Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi A Decided Heart Terri McCartney, Soul Care Facilitator ...
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Radiating Light
This Week’s Quotation: You are the light of the world. This is merely a statement of truth about yourself. It refers to you as you were created by God. This is a beginning step in accepting your real function...
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Motionless in Motion
This Week’s Quotation: Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. ~Tao Te Ching Motionless in Motion Jerry Kvasnicka Unmoved yet Moving How is it possible to travel...
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Inner Peace
This Week’s Quotation: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ~ John 14:27 Inner Peace...
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Holy Encounters
This Week’s Quotation: When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see them, you will see yourself. As you treat them, you will treat yourself. As you think of them, you will think of yourself....
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Bringing Order, Peace, and Harmony
This Week’s Quotation: First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and...
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Breakthrough Questions
This Week’s Quotation: Can you imagine how your problems might look from God’s point of view, or envision how God might resolve them? Do you ever ask yourself what is the reason for the circumstances of your life? Have...
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The Rapture of Being Alive
This Week’s Quotation: The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. ~ Song of Solomon 2:8 The Rapture of Being Alive Jerry KvasnickaLeaping for Joy No, 2022 is not a...
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All is Well
This Week’s Quotation: Whatever happened, happened for the good. Whatever is happening, is happening for the good. Whatever will happen, will also happen for the good. ~ Bhagavad Gita All is Well Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator I often...
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Lighting up the World
This Week’s Quotation: Ye are the light of the world. ~ Matthew 5:14 Lighting up the World Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator I have found that using this quote from Matthew as a mantra serves me well. I use...
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The Christ Within
This Week’s Quotation: The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. This Christmas...
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Christmas Spirit
This Week’s Quotation: Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving others with God’s own love and concern. It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you. ~ Mother Teresa Christmas Spirit Terri McCartneySoul...
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The Blessings of Advent
This Week’s Quotation: Advent reminds us that God always answers. God is present in the history of humanity. He is the God-with-us. He walks beside us to support us. Confidently waiting for the Lord allows us to find comfort...
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Centered in the Way
This Week’s Quotation: The sovereign soul who lives self-governed and at peace is centered in himself, taking alike pleasure and pain, heat, cold, glory, and shame. He is the Faithful and Illumined One, glad with joy of light and...
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Bountiful Blessings
This Week’s Quotation: Every day, think as you wake up: Today, I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use...
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Amazing Grace
This Week's Quotation: When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. When you plant...
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Love is a Verb
This Week’s Quotation: Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.~ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Love is a Verb Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator What is love if not expressed as continual action, continual choice, and continual devotion? For example,...
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A Holy Instant
This Week’s Quotation: This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace. If I need a word to help me, You will give it...
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Changing Our Inner Climate
This Week’s Quotation: We have inherited the garden: we must not leave a desert to our children.~ Pope Francis Changing Our Inner Climate Jerry KvasnickaCool in the Flame Pope Francis spoke these words in advance of the 2021 UN Climate...
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Bodhicitta
This Week's Quotation: We are at a time when old systems and ideas are being questioned and falling apart, and there is a great opportunity for something fresh to emerge. I have no idea what that will look like and...
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Be Still
This Week’s Quotation: Be still and know that I Am God.Psalms 46:10 Be Still Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator Being still does not comes easily to me. Maybe you can relate. I suppose that’s because stillness creates a vacuum that the...
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Embraced by Love
This Week’s Quotation: Let me be embraced by the love by which the whole of creation is moved. The very essence with which all things are held together, dependent yet independent, whole yet individuated. In which all are my...
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Peace is a Positive State
This Week’s Quotation: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 Peace is...
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Believing is Seeing
This Week’s Quotation: Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers...
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Transmitters of Divine Presence
This Week’s Quotation: You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God. No one else can fill your part… God, through His Voice, reminds you of it…Yet, there must be a place made ready to receive His gifts. A...
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Only With Thine Eyes
This Week’s Quotation: A thousand shalt fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shalt not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalms...
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Beacons of Light
This Week’s Quotation: Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, as all things are passing. God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God. God alone is sufficient.~ Saint Teresa of Avila Beacons of Light...
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The Ambiance of Love
This Week’s Quotation: Let’s get loose with compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambiance of love. An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.~ Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, Persian Mystic The Ambiance of Love Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator This morning...
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World Service
This Week's Quotation: There is another dimension to the [spiritual] journey—the mystery of how our individual light relates to the light of the whole. When consciously recognized, this hidden aspect of spiritual life orients the seeker away from a solely...
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Restoring Peace
This Week's Quotation: I will forgive and see this differently. These words give you power over all events that seem to have power over you. Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to...
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Overcoming the Personal Self
This Week’s Quotation: Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.~ St. Francis of Assisi Overcoming the Personal Self Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator Transcending the personal self and its history...
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A Merry Heart
This Week’s Quotation: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.Proverbs 17:22 A Merry Heart Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator I’m certain we all know what a broken spirit feels like. Not good at...
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Awakened Living
This Week's Quotation: Don't worry if your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? The Source is within you, and this whole world is...
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Sacred Activism
This Week's Quotation: But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on...
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Gratitude Fest
This Week’s Quotation: To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us—and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love; every moment of existence is a...
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Mind Matters
This Week’s Quotation: The mind is everything. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined...
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The Sacredness of Life
This Week's Quotation: Learn to turn to each person as the most sacred person on Earth, to each moment as the most sacred moment that has ever been given to us. Then perhaps we are awake a bit more, perhaps...
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The Treasure in Your Heart
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do...
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Pilgrimage for Peace
This Week’s Quotation: When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The...
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True Vision
This Week’s Quotation: God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. Nothing is separate. I am determined to see as God sees. The salvation of the world depends on my reversal of thinking. In my determination...
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Carrier of Love
This Week’s Quotation: If our hearts and actions are inspired by charity, by divine love, then our communication will be touched by God’s own power. Love is the only light that can constantly illuminate a world grown dim. ~...
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The Choice for Love
This Week’s Quotation: Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.1 John 4:7 The Choice for Love Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator Choosing Love endows us...
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The Joy of Synergy
This Week's Quotation: Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten—it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging… Nothing is excluded and the...
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The Gift of the Present Moment
This Week’s Quotation: The past no longer is. The future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment.~ Buddha The Gift of the Present Moment Terri McCartneySoul Care...
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An Evolutionary Experiment
This Week's Quotation: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.Romans 12:2 An Evolutionary Experiment Terri...
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Creation Renewed
This Week’s Quotation: Glorified, immensely glorified art Thou, O my Beloved!... Thou hast made all things to be the revelations of Thy handiwork, the repositories of Thy knowledge, and the treasuries of Thy wisdom. I yield Thee such gratitude as...
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Angels Everywhere: Come Forth!
This Week’s Quotation: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Hebrews 13:2 Angels Everywhere: Come Forth! Jerry KvasnickaLet Love Radiate The above admonition makes the correct assumption: there is an angel present in every human...
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Soul Matters
This Week’s Quotation: When God has become the conscious center of one’s life, then, as in a time of civil war, the various citizens of the psyche are forced to take sides.~ Charles Upton, Day and Night on the Sufi...
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With Power and Great Glory
This Week’s Quotation: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear,...
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Mind and Breath
This Week's Quotation: We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ~ Buddha (Suddhartha Gautama) Mind and Breath Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator One of the greatest challenges I’ve...
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Ebbs and Flows
This Week's Quotation: If you are seeking, seek us with joy, for we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist.Do not go in the direction...
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For the Love of Nature
This Week's Quotation: Thou shalt not destroy the harmony of the environment.~ Pope Francis For the Love of Nature Jerry KvasnickaBless a tree today Pope Francis has proposed the above quote as the eleventh commandment. I certainly applaud him for...
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Sustained Attunement
This Week's Quotation: The peace of God is shining in me now. The light cannot be lost. It came with me from my Source. The peace of God is shining in me now and from my heart extends around the...
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Lenten Blessings
This Week’s Quotation: During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference. Lent comes providentially to awaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. ~ Pope Francis Lenten Blessings Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator I write this on Ash Wednesday,...
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World Unity
This Week's Quotation O Thou kind Lord! Unite all. Let the religions agree and make the nations one so that they may see each other as one family and the whole earth as one home. May they all live together...
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Knowing Versus Knowing About
This Week's Quotation: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free~ John 8:32 Knowing Versus Knowing About Jerry KvasnickaLife is Radiance In this statement to a group of Jews who were open to receiving his...
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Faith is a Verb
This Week's Quotation: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty will say to the Lord: “My refuge and my fortress; my God in whom I trust.” For he will...
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Breakdown to Breakthrough
This Week’s Quotation: Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let...
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The Power of Prayer
This Week's Quotation: Your Lord says, “Call on Me; I will answer your prayer.” ~ Islam Qur’an 40.60 Lord of creation! No one other than thee pervades all these that have come into being. May that be ours for which...
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Make My Heart His Abode
This Week's Quotation: May the Lord of Lords, Mahavira, whom all the hosts of saints keep in mind, all the rulers of men and angels praise, and all the scriptures—Vedas, Puranas, and Sastras—extol, make my heart his abode. May...
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Faithful Expectation
This Week’s Quotation: Christmas isn’t just a temporal celebration or the memory of a beautiful event; Christmas is more...Christmas is an encounter. As we progress through the season of Advent, we go by this road to meet the Lord....
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The Self Within All Beings
This Week's Quotation: He is the one God, hidden in all beings, all-pervading, the Self within all beings, watching over all works, dwelling in all beings, the witness, the perceiver, the only one, free from qualities.~ Upanishad 6.11 The Self...
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True Silence
This Week’s Quotation: True silence is the rest of the mind; and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~ William Penn True Silence OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Laurence Mendes, Bromyard, England"The Art...
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Tao Gives Birth to One
This Week's Quotation: Tao gives birth to One,One gives birth to Two,The Two gives birth to Three,The Three gives birth to all things.~ Lao Tzu Tao Gives Birth to One David KarchereAuthor, Becoming a SunSunrise Ranch Spiritual Director I imagine...
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Connectedness
This Week's Quotation: Humankind is but one thread within the great web of life. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~ Chief Seattle of the Suquamish and Duwamish Tribes...
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Bridging
This Week’s Quotation: Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter… What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle… When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re...
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Grace
This Week’s Quotation: If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. His grace is His answer to all despair, for in...
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Justice
This Week’s Quotation: Let justice well up like water, and righteousness like a flowing stream. Book of Amos 5:24 Justice Karen BoyettSoul Care Facilitator The Prophet Amos of the Hebrew Scriptures is a prophet of social justice. Justice...
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Emptiness
This Week’s Quotation: Form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness; emptiness is exactly form. Sensation, conception, discrimination, and consciousness are also like this. ~ An excerpt from an English translation of the Buddhist...
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Radiate Your Brilliant Light
This Week’s Quotation: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it...
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You Are as God Created You
This Week’s Quotation: O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever… The Lord is on my side; I will not fear… The Lord is my strength and song… This is the...
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Sovereignty
This Week’s Quotation: We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back...
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Divine Order
This Week’s Quotation: Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ~ Luke 12:32 Divine Order Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator It is a time of enormous uncertainty in...
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We Are a Garden
This Week’s Quotation: Consider the flowers of a garden. Though differing in kind, color, form, and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are refreshed by the waters of one spring, revived by the breath of one wind, invigorated by the...
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God in Costume
This Week’s Quotation: Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, Confucius was asked for a rule of practice for one's life. He answered, "One word which sums up the basis of all good conduct...loving-kindness. Do not do to others...
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How Good and Pleasant It Is
This Week's Quotation: Hineh mah tov umah na’im shevet achim gam yachad! Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for people to dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1 How Good and Pleasant It Is Karen BoyettSoul Care...
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Anchored in Gratitude
This Week's Quotation: Love is the way to walk in gratitude. And let your gratitude make room for all...
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Denying Love Is Our Only Problem
This Week's Quotation: Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that...
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Ordinary Things With
Extraordinary LoveThis Week's Quotation: There have been many saints who have gone before to guide us, but I like the...
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The Greater Works
This Week's Quotation: He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater...
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Empowered Consciousness
This Week's Quotation: Every one of us already has the seed of mindfulness. The practice is to cultivate it....
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Celebrating Life
This Week's Quotation: This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. ~...
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Words as Blessings
This Week's Quotation: The scripture says, "We will eat the fruit of our words." Words are like seeds. You...
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Being in God the Creator
This Week’s Quotation: In God we live and move and have our being. It is God who gives life...
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God Alone is Enough
This Week's Quotation: Let nothing disturb you.Let nothing frighten you.All things pass away.God never changes.Patience obtains all things.They who...
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Radiance
This Week's Quotation: Radiance is the ever-expanding Essence of the Wonderful One made manifest in the body. Radiance is...
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Everything is a Miracle
This Week's Quotation: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...
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Spiritual Community
This Week's Quotation: An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his...
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Creative Fire
This Week’s Quotation: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which...
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Togetherness
This Week's Quotation: Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship.… So...
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Rest in God
This Week's Quotation: I place the future in the hands of God. Accept today’s idea, and you have passed...
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Where Peace Begins
This Week’s Quotation: What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. ~ Mother...
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Wake Up Smiling
This Week's Quotation: Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…get up in the morning, and look...
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Love is Everything
This Week's Quotation: If you are silent, keep silent for love. If you speak, speak for love. If you...
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Mystical Power
This Week's Quotation: Give the light, and the darkness will disappear by itself. ~ Desiderius Erasmus, 1500’s Catholic Priest ...
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Wetiko
This Week’s Quotation: There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves, and that has the...
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Glorifying God
This Week’s Quotation: Question: What is the chief end of man?Answer: Man's chief end is to glorify God and...
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Pray Without Ceasing
This Week's Quotation: Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; ~ Romans 12:12 Pray Without...
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Living Life as an Experiment
This Week's Quotation: The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but...
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Unexpected Visitors
This Week's Quotation: This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a...
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Radiating Love
This Week's Quotation: Let’s get loose with compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambiance of love. An awake heart...
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It’s All Divine
This Week's Quotation: Behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ Luke 17:21 It’s All Divine journey—the mystery of how our individual light relates to the...
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Restoring Peace
This Week's Quotation: I will forgive and see this differently. These words give you power over all events that seem...
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Overcoming the Personal Self
This Week’s Quotation: Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming...
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A Merry Heart
This Week’s Quotation: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.Proverbs 17:22 A...
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Awakened Living
This Week's Quotation: Don't worry if your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you...
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Sacred Activism
This Week's Quotation: But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you....
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Gratitude Fest
This Week’s Quotation: To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us—and He...
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Mind Matters
This Week’s Quotation: The mind is everything. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make...
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The Sacredness of Life
This Week's Quotation: Learn to turn to each person as the most sacred person on Earth, to each moment as...
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The Treasure in Your Heart
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and...
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Pilgrimage for Peace
This Week’s Quotation: When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace...
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True Vision
This Week’s Quotation: God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. Nothing is separate. I am...
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Carrier of Love
This Week’s Quotation: If our hearts and actions are inspired by charity, by divine love, then our communication will...
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The Choice for Love
This Week’s Quotation: Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is...
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The Joy of Synergy
This Week's Quotation: Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten—it knows the sacred that is within all that exists,...
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The Gift of the Present Moment
This Week’s Quotation: The past no longer is. The future is not yet here; there is only one moment in...
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An Evolutionary Experiment
This Week's Quotation: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,...
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Creation Renewed
This Week’s Quotation: Glorified, immensely glorified art Thou, O my Beloved!... Thou hast made all things to be the revelations...
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Angels Everywhere: Come Forth!
This Week’s Quotation: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Hebrews 13:2 Angels Everywhere: Come...
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Soul Matters
This Week’s Quotation: When God has become the conscious center of one’s life, then, as in a time of civil...
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With Power and Great Glory
This Week’s Quotation: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and...
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Mind and Breath
This Week's Quotation: We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we...
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Ebbs and Flows
This Week's Quotation: If you are seeking, seek us with joy, for we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not...
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For the Love of Nature
This Week's Quotation: Thou shalt not destroy the harmony of the environment.~ Pope Francis For the Love of Nature Jerry...
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Sustained Attunement
This Week's Quotation: The peace of God is shining in me now. The light cannot be lost. It came with...
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Lenten Blessings
This Week’s Quotation: During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference. Lent comes providentially to awaken us,...
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World Unity
This Week's Quotation O Thou kind Lord! Unite all. Let the religions agree and make the nations one so that...
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Knowing Versus Knowing About
This Week's Quotation: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free~ John 8:32 Knowing Versus...
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Faith is a Verb
This Week's Quotation: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the...
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Breakdown to Breakthrough
This Week’s Quotation: Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all...
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The Power of Prayer
This Week's Quotation: Your Lord says, “Call on Me; I will answer your prayer.” ~ Islam Qur’an 40.60 Lord of...
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Make My Heart His Abode
This Week's Quotation: May the Lord of Lords, Mahavira, whom all the hosts of saints keep in mind, all...
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Faithful Expectation
This Week’s Quotation: Christmas isn’t just a temporal celebration or the memory of a beautiful event; Christmas is more...Christmas...
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The Self Within All Beings
This Week's Quotation: He is the one God, hidden in all beings, all-pervading, the Self within all beings, watching over...
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True Silence
This Week’s Quotation: True silence is the rest of the mind; and is to the spirit what sleep is...
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Tao Gives Birth to One
This Week's Quotation: Tao gives birth to One,One gives birth to Two,The Two gives birth to Three,The Three gives birth...
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Connectedness
This Week's Quotation: Humankind is but one thread within the great web of life. Whatever we do to the web,...
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Bridging
This Week’s Quotation: Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break...
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Grace
This Week’s Quotation: If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For...
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Justice
This Week’s Quotation: Let justice well up like water, and righteousness like a flowing stream. Book of Amos 5:24...
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Emptiness
This Week’s Quotation: Form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness; emptiness is...
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Radiate Your Brilliant Light
This Week’s Quotation: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot...
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You Are as God Created You
This Week’s Quotation: O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever…...
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Sovereignty
This Week’s Quotation: We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is...
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Divine Order
This Week’s Quotation: Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you...
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We Are a Garden
This Week’s Quotation: Consider the flowers of a garden. Though differing in kind, color, form, and shape, yet, inasmuch...
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God in Costume
This Week’s Quotation: Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, Confucius was asked for a rule of practice for...
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How Good and Pleasant It Is
This Week's Quotation: Hineh mah tov umah na’im shevet achim gam yachad! Behold, how good and how pleasant it...
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