The Phrase Is Not Actually in the Bible Many Christians have heard the invitation, “Accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior,” so many times that it sounds like something Jesus or one of the apostles must have said directly. The interesting thing is that those exact words do not appear anywhere in the Bible.
Protecting Our Inner Space Life places us in situations that can leave us feeling energized, drained, peaceful, anxious, or emotionally overwhelmed. Crowded gatherings, difficult conversations, family events, workplaces, and even joyful celebrations can demand more from us than we realize. Some spiritual traditions describe these experiences as interactions with energy and speak about protecting the
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Learning Beyond the Human World Long before books, classrooms, and formal teachers existed, human beings learned important lessons by watching the natural world around them. Animals showed our ancestors how to survive, adapt, protect their young, recognize danger, and respond when their surroundings changed. Even today, animals can encourage us to look at life from
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The Need to Step Away Sometimes the most important work we can do begins when we give ourselves permission to step away from the noise of everyday life. A retreat creates that kind of space by allowing us to slow down, reflect, and listen more carefully to what is happening within us. It is more
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Christianity Was Never as Simple as We Were Taught Growing up around Christianity, many of us were taught the faith as though everything had been settled from the beginning. Jesus came, the apostles preached, the Bible appeared, and the church carried the same message forward. History tells a messier and more interesting story. Early Christians
Two Ways of Experiencing the Same Moment The Participant and the Witness Whether we recognize it or not, we can experience the same moment from two different places within ourselves. One part of us is right there in the middle of whatever is happening. It feels the anger, disappointment, excitement, fear, embarrassment, joy, and confusion
Science and Spiritual Questions Science occasionally arrives at questions that spiritual traditions have been wrestling with for centuries, and consciousness is one of the biggest. That does not mean science has suddenly proved what ancient spiritual teachers believed, nor does it mean mystical language should be treated as scientific evidence. It simply means human beings
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Healing Is About More Than What Happened There comes a time in life when simply being able to say, “I survived it,” is no longer enough. You can survive betrayal and still come out of it having a mighty hard time trusting anybody who comes afterward. You can survive abandonment and become so afraid of
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Transformation Is Not Always About Inventing a New Identity A whole lot of modern self-development talk is built around the idea that we need to become somebody new. We are told to create a new identity, visualize a better future, repeat affirmations, and start acting like the life we want has already arrived. There can
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The World We Experience Look at your hand for a moment, or the table in front of you, the wall across the room, or that blue sky outside the window. Everything looks so immediate and solid that we naturally assume our eyes are showing us the world pretty much exactly as it exists. We see
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