January 24, 2025

How do we know if we are in divine order? The answer comes after we ask ourselves,” Do I trust the pathway on which I find myself?” Trust is the first key to knowing if we are in divine order. If, in our soul, we trust the journey, that signals that we are in an order beyond ourselves. If we do not trust, we are probably not aligned with the divine pathway. 

January 23, 2025

Strange and painful things can happen at any time. Something goes wrong, someone hurts us, or they are disappointed in us, there’s a great loss, we are victims of circumstances beyond our control — these are examples of big things that derail us. But there are also countless small things that do the same, like when someone doesn’t do what they promised, when there’s a fender bender, when we say the wrong thing, when we lose important papers, or even when we are running really late for an important event. 

January 22, 2025

In 1929 Edwin Hubble observed that galaxies moved further apart, indicating an expanding universe. He learned that fact by calculating changes in the length of light rays sent from objects in distant galaxies. That our universe is expanding is known as Hubble's Law. If we look at Divine Order through the lens of the laws of physics, we see that Divine Order has properties of expansion and transformation. 

January 21, 2025

I was first introduced to the concept of Divine Order by the writings of Charles Fillmore (1854-1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1931), Founders of the Unity Society of Practical Christianity.

January 20, 2025

There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven…

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

January 19, 2025

How do we stay in the moment? That is a good question, but before we address it, a more fundamental question is: Why should we stay in the moment? And the answer is that by living in the moment, we live more deeply, consciously, and longer. You may ask, "How is it possible to live longer by living in the present? 

January 18, 2025

Viking Cruises Chairman Torstein Hagen believes that time is the only thing you don't have enough of. He says," When you philosophize about life, you realize that time is the most precious commodity anyone can possess, so spending that time wisely is important." Torstein's answer to spending time wisely is to explore the world. 

January 17, 2025

Understandably, we each focus on our own years on earth. However, we strive to see the broader picture of life than our personal experience, unless we succumb to self-absorption. To understand more than our own life circumstances and to consider the larger picture is part of being conscious. 

January 16, 2025

The ego fancies itself as being the center of life and that life on Earth began with our ancestors. But that line of thought is flawed by its egocentricity. We tend to think our country's founding was long ago and that Columbus' voyages were way in the past. We picture Christ, Socrates, and other people of history as ancient. They were, but only if we view humanity as the center of the world and its appearance marks the beginning of time. 

January 15, 2025

As one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was a genius who got things done. Besides being the author of the Declaration of Independence, he was the governor of Virginia, the US ambassador to France, and the founder, architect, builder, and president of the University of Virginia. He became the third president of the United States of America. 

January 14, 2025

Let's face it—we need to operate with set times for everything. After all, schedules keep us organized and on point. If our timetables are erratic and unpredictable, we're in chaos. The more people in turmoil, the more chaos there is in the world. 

January 13, 2025

The Gaither family has made countless and beautiful contributions to Gospel music. For years, I watched “The Gaithers” on TV and was mesmerized by their fantastic musical presentations. One of my favorites was when the entire family sat together singing wonderful hymns. The harmony was beautiful. There must have been 20 or 30 people in all. Through the TV screen, I felt the love within that family, and truth be known, wanted to be a member of that family if only to join in their wonderful singing.

January 12, 2025

In these days after the recent passing of President Jimmy Carter, we are reminded of what a great man he was. He came from relative anonymity to win the presidency while having campaigned on truth and a return to moral values. America said “Yes” to him and enjoyed a brief honeymoon with him as President. Yet this was short-lived. Though he made tremendous strides in helping bring peace to the Middle East, his presidency was marked by many problems and failures. Interest rates rose dramatically, gas was scarce, there was tremendous inflation, and the country suffered prolonged anxiety and national humiliation over the Iranian, hostage crisis. 

January 11, 2025

There is a lot of talk these days about being present. But there's little that explains what it means to be present. Oh, I know it means to live in the moment, but what exactly is the moment? Is then a moment each second or is it longer? How do we define the "present moment?"

January 10, 2025

Who would ever have believed that one system of knowledge could show us our tremendous strengths and blind spots in one diagram called the Enneagram? Unlike other personality systems, it is not based on categorizing people and using a static nomenclature to label them. Instead, the Enneagram reflects the truth of nature: that each of us is a fluid and changing being. Therefore, we do not fit into the narrow confines of one label. Rather, we flow through many states of being and psychological structures in our own way and in our own timing. The Enneagram is a sacred map of those states of being.

January 9, 2025

In college, there were always parties and fantastic events that had great music with live bands. At such events, I used to dance and loved it. Little did I know then that I was expressing myself through the body center. Then adulthood hit, and dancing gave way to long work schedules and devoting time to our children and their activities. With two little kids and then with teens, Lark and I danced only a few times a year… and I really looked forward to those times. Several years ago, I was introduced to Zumba, a cardio exercise that uses wonderful upbeat music. It is actually like dancing and working out at the same time. I decided to revive my dancing life by adding to my workout life. So now I attend Zumba "classes" about four times a week. Lark and I take ballroom dancing classes and love it. I am so thankful that I chose to revive something so meaningful. Dancing is one of my body's center's expressions of soul — my soulality.

January 8, 2025

When we are revived, it means that, in some sense, we have been dead or dying. After we are revived, we live again. In the cycle of life, which includes all living things, there is some form of birth, death, and rebirth. This motif is exemplified by the traditional egg and dart design in many classical moldings and plasterwork. It’s also depicted in the architecture of private residences and public and religious buildings. The egg means life, the dart symbolizes death, and the continuance of that pattern means that life is constantly being reborn. 

January 7, 2025

The Latin root word of revival is “vivo“ or “vivere“ which both mean “to live.” Add the prefix “re” which means “again,” and we have the word “revival,“ which means to live again. Sometimes we associate the word revive with someone who’s had a cardiac arrest and is brought back to life through cardiopulmonary resuscitation or an electrical shock called defibrillation.