Motivated By Spirit

As I am working to put the finishing touches on A Second Slice, the next book due out this Spring, I have been visiting parts of its precursor Slices. The following jumped out at me as a measure of how I have grown in my understanding since I wrote that volume. “There is a saying about truth, which is oft repeated by the purveyors of psycho-babble that is cogent here. It is –' truth is not truth until it becomes your truth'. Nuggets come through all kinds of channels and that is a nugget. It is my truth when it becomes a part of my living consciousness; informing all my actions and my reactions; whether I utter it or not. That is the manifestation metaphysicians prate on about all the time. To say then God is good and good is health is only using words, until my body demonstrates total health. By and large, that is so, but the totality of the statement is not yet true in my experience. I have headaches, not frequently, but I have them. (Recently I experienced a bout...

As a specie we have embraced an arrogance which informs us we are the epitome of God’s creation. Furthermore we believe this small sphere, on which we are living a physical experience, is the only inhabited planet in the Universe. Additionally, we believe that a small minority of us have the only key to enter the kingdom of God. It almost leaves me ashamed to think the prevailing consciousness of this planet is so exclusionary; and somehow I am a party to such restrictive thinking. Whether it is by excluding myself, or excluding others, every exclusionary thought I have adds to the store of such thoughts; holding us apart from the joining, which is our collective destiny. We are designed to think of ourselves as unique. That is because we are. There is an infinite variety of us; no two of us are exactly alike. Because we are not alike does not mean we are not equal; nor does it mean we are not united in a unity which makes us into a whole being. What our uniqueness says is...