#GravityOfGrace Riddles the Soul Understands Before the Mind Does. "You weren’t pulled back because you failed— you were caught before you fell.We call it failure." The moment you freeze in the meeting. The text you never got a reply to. The opportunity that passed while you were still gathering courage. The platform that collapsed. The... Continue Reading →
The ego needs success to thrive; the soul needs meaning .. Richard Rohr. These words jumped up from the book at me, not to teach me something new, but rather to confirm something I had already discovered. The game is rigged. No quest, goal, or project ever delivers on its promise to fully satisfy. Each... Continue Reading →
Sometimes it takes faith to quit the race,to swim against the tide of conventional wisdom. Sometimes it takes faith to step off the pitch,to walk away from the game; and refuse to play by the old rules. Caught up in striving and trying to succeed. We work hard, strive and struggle.After all, you’ve heard the... Continue Reading →
A journey of 10 steps for Paul, could take Peter a 1000 steps to complete.That doesn't make Paul better, smarter or more special.It simply means we express the life in us differently. There is a time and a season for all. We are each required to walk to the measure of light or insight that... Continue Reading →
Have you ever placed an order with Amazon (or some other online service) that arrives in separate packages on different days? Sometimes, not all the items in your order are ready, and so they are despatched as they become available. Similarly, in my journey, I find that sometimes the knowledge and insight of what I... Continue Reading →
I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Acts 26:19 Walk true to the measure of light that you have been given.Work with what you have received. Grace and Providence will serve up the next, when you are ready. Don’t run with another’s dream, values or beliefs. Draw instead from the deep wells within you.... Continue Reading →
Sometimes it takes faith to quit the race,to swim against the tide of coventional wisdom. Sometimes it takes faith to step off the pitch,to walk away from the game; and refuse to play by the old rules. Caught up in striving and trying to succeed. We work hard, strive and struggle.After all, you’ve heard the... Continue Reading →
Love pursues with reckless abandonin his quest for your heart! GRACE is a Big Spender! when it comes to giving all to reawaken your love for her. God will not be denied!The Universe and everything in it ... conspires and colludes to bring you back safely to rest on her bossom. Hence .. In faith... Continue Reading →
Do you sometimes feel like the quest for your true self and the realisation of your dreams and all you know to be True, is a journey of two steps forward and one step backwards? I do. Truth be told, this happens more often than ‘sometimes’ and not always just one step backwards. Perhaps you... Continue Reading →
Miracles not magic. God is experienced. God is relationship and personal. In the words of Richard Rohr, it is the Divine Dance. Grace not works. The race is not always to the fastest, smartest or most qualified. Lean on God. Lean into God. Spirit not might. Your substance, your essence is not of things seen... Continue Reading →
Grace says 'it is well'Do not listen to the fearful and insecure mind.Do not accept its judgements and accusations. The ego mind does not build you up, It only pulls you down. Even when it appears to build you up, it is only temporal and illusionary.The ego mind builds you up, only to cast down... Continue Reading →
Half a day into my first working day of the New Year, and my mind is already fried! As other pilgrims on the journey of life have found, old habits die hard. The serenity, peace and illumination from gazing inward to the light of the Father these past few weeks has seemingly evaporated. Now, I... Continue Reading →
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