Category: Personal Journeys

Internet Mind

Posted by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew | Oct 25, 2021 | Featured, Personal Journeys |

When I focus, dipping into a place of attention and listening so that the house stills around me and I’m fully immersed in creating, there’s always this small, panicky self dashing around in search of a quick fix

These Blues

Posted by Maj Ragain | Oct 18, 2021 | Editor's Picks, Featured, Personal Journeys |

I am a man who spends his waking hours scouring for signs, starlight chatter, mosaics of broken conversations, every outward sign pointing inward, a volunteer transcendentalist. My morning prayer is may the messenger come, this day.

Love May Be All of This

Posted by John Backman | Oct 4, 2021 | Featured, Personal Journeys |

If everything is interwoven, as the Buddhists say, then the cosmos is a garden, and love means tending it. Anything I do to make it blossom is love, whether it blossoms in me, or you, or an ant.

LIving In the Past

Posted by Gina Moriarty | Sep 14, 2021 | Featured, Personal Journeys |

Regarding reincarnation, some people believe a soul can float in astral form for up to six months after death. The soul in question has six months to plan their next life. Six months to hang around limbo, or maybe that’s heaven. Six months to pick a body, to figure out who they’re going to be, and where they’ll reside. Six months to decide what lessons they’ll learn in this lifetime.

The Father’s Voice?

Posted by D.R. James | Jul 5, 2021 | Featured, On Religion, Personal Journeys |

A larger-than-sometimes-manageable measure of uncertainty about “God’s Voice” crept in, making it nearly impossible for me to think and say what I so easily used to think and say about how clearly one can discern God’s Will.

Life got complicated. My church was sounding more and more dogmatic, exclusive, as I was becoming more and more open, inclusive.

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The Braided Way

The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.