Archive for April, 2010

In the darkest moments, your angel is shining God’s light on the suffering. To feel the love that your angel is holding you in, have gratitude. When you experience heartfelt gratitude, you are in the embrace of your soul. [Continue]

The images of all nations, all languages, all people joined together as one is very reminiscent of that day of Pentecost when the disciples gather in that upper room, locked in fear and in their differences, when the Holy Spirit descended upon them and broke the walls that divided them, took away their fear, their mis-understandings, their closed [Continue]

Are You Welcoming or Repelling the Arrival of Good? This is a question I've been asking myself lately and honestly, I've been experiencing a conscious awareness of both, and taking responsibility for my shift when needed. On some level, no matter your focus or prayer, you desire to receive something. [Continue]

An invitation from Butch Hovis to reflect on one day, twenty-four hours of living. [Continue]

Everybody makes a mess from time to time. It's the price we pay for growth and progress. If we're wise, we learn from our mistakes; if not, we can wind up paying for them over and over again. In this first of five articles, Les Brown looks at how guilt can become a positive experience. [Continue]

Are you suffering from persistent negative thoughts? Turn these thoughts to prayer. If you keep asking yourself, “Why can’t I let go of this?” each time you catch yourself in that thought, pray, “Spirit, God, help me to let go of this.” Use the name for Spirit that most resonates with your heart. [Continue]

And behold, two of them were going that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about seven miles. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass that while they communed and reasoned together, Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were held, that they should not know [Continue]

What? Why? Who am I ? Butch Hovis examines how mystical writers such as John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, and the Buddha address what may be the root of our true life. [Continue]

Learning to live life on life's terms is the great spiritual lesson of midlife: allowing us to transition from the adult attitude of self-willed self-determination to the more mature and realistic attitude of acceptance and trust. [Continue]

This morning outside of Penn Station in New York City I heard this man telling someone that “you must be saved!” Wow “you must”! So emphatic, so clear, so demanding of anyone who passed his way. That, along with a little brochure describing the last days of judgment and the fires of hell was sternly given out. Seemed to be all one needed [Continue]