Vanessa | February 2, 2011
Contemplative prayer takes us beyond the form of discursive prayer where we are talking to God and instead we simply (though seemingly impossibly for me right now) hold ourselves still with the intention of being with God.
Vanessa | November 24, 2010
Whether you feel more comfortable celebrating or observing the seasons, sitting in Nature or working in your garden, or learning and developing a new artistic skill, this book had so much variety it would be very easy to find something that worked for you and begin to develop it as part of a deeper and more complete spiritual practice.
Vanessa | May 21, 2010
To celebrate signing the lease with new tenants and a major appliance move that has opened up loads of space in our back hallway (where we were storing a fridge, stove, washer and dryer from previous tenants) I decided to treat myself to Andrew Harvey’s new book, Heart YogaHeart Yoga. While I was there I [...]
Vanessa | April 12, 2010
April 1st was kind of an interesting day – the joke certainly was on me – though it started normally enough with planning and mapping my errand’s route. I had to go to the Driver’s License Office to get my license and plates renewed which had expired at the end of March. I parked, I [...]
Vanessa | March 20, 2010
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve just begun Jung’s Memories, Dreams, ReflectionsMemories, Dreams, Reflections and woven through the first two chapters are images and stories that clearly reflect Jung’s early fascination with Life – both the end of life and the beauty and mystery of nature. His earliest memories contain beautiful images of [...]
Vanessa | March 18, 2010
Walsch moves on to an examination of ‘civil society’ and commerce with this comment, “the thought that you ‘can’t afford’ a civil society is what is causing your society to no longer be civil” (280). God asks the question, “What’s more important, the quality of a human life or the profit margin of doctor’s offices, [...]
Vanessa | March 17, 2010
Chapter 21 of Tomorrow’s GodTomorrow’s God by Neale Donald Walsch deals with kids and education – looking at what we are doing to raise our kids now and what it will be like Tomorrow. Have you ever squirmed because what you were reading was hitting a little closer to home than you would like? Well, [...]
Vanessa | March 12, 2010
I’m well in to Part 2 of Tomorrow’s GodTomorrow’s God by Neale Donald Walsch. While Part 1 explained what Tomorrow’s God would look like, Part 2 explains how our world will change and how we will change when our beliefs evolve to this new way of thinking – when we believe that We are all [...]
Vanessa | March 8, 2010
This section of the book deals challenges our belief that God is both malevolent and benevolent – that God could both love and hate, create and destroy, reward and punish. Tomorrow’s GodTomorrow’s God, Walsch argues, destroys nothing, rejects nothing and punishes nothing (131). Yesterday’s God is a two-faced God but Tomorrow’s God is consistent and [...]
Vanessa | March 4, 2010
Last night I read Chapter’s 4 through 8 of Tomorrow’s GodTomorrow’s God. I’m still not halfway but I’m getting there. This section of the book focuses on our changing comprehension of God and the introduction of two new synonyms for God. God is Life. And God is Change. Since God is Life, all of Life [...]
