Join the search for the voice of Wisdom through compassion, living God, and the four paths of Creation Spirituality. Through our love of Christ Jesus, we seek to bring sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and freedom to the captives, as we proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. God loves us all, no matter our race, creed, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Charlie continues our discussion of the Apostles Creed with a focus on The Forgiveness of Sins. Topics include the nature of sin, forgiveness, repentance, and love.
Charlie continues our Discussion of the Apostles Creed by looking at the phrase, The Communion of Saints, also talking about devotion to the Saints and Angels.
Charlie continues our discussion of the Apostles Creed with a focus on the phrase "I believe in the Holy Catholic Church." What does the word catholic mean? What is the Church?
How do we find time to savor our lives in the hectic world? What does it mean to live? Are we all just searching for the experience of being alive? I tackle these questions and more on today's episode.
With bombs in the mail and a gunman in a synagogue, we need to have a serious discussion about what we can do to help this weary world. Let's talk through the Twelve Step to a Compassionate Life.
Twelve Steps Compassion Booklet: https://charterforcompassion.org/12-steps-compassion-booklet
The Lorica is a prayer to start the day which centers us on the Four Paths while rejecting the Five Poisons and invoking the Five Powers/Strengths. The text of the prayer is on the Wisdom's Cry website: https://wisdomscry.com/lorica-of-creation-spirituality
Let's discuss the being a preservative force in the world and being a light that brings compassion and judgement into the world. Plus, I share the Buddha Light Practice.
Some people only think about or mention God when they need help or someone to blame. A life of faith is one where we live God to the best of our ability every day.
The purpose of our faith is to reconcile people to God through compassion and justice. All of the rhetoric about "the other" is not only unhelpful, but is against the faith taught to us by Jesus Christ. We are meant to be peacemakers.
"The second function of a mythology is to present an image of the universe that connects the transcendent to the world of everyday experience (Joseph Campbell, Myths of Light, p 5).”
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a free gift, conceived within all believers when we first come to faith. As we mature in the way, we are conformed into the image of Christ.
A discussion of th first path, "In the Via Positiva. In awe, wonder, and mystery of nature and all beings, each of whom is a ‘word of God,’ a ‘mirror of God that glistens and glitters,’ as Hildegard of Bingen put it. This is Path One.”