To All My Memories– You have lost the agony once held over me, No longer have you the power to tell me who I am. And, the suffering you owned before is washed away. All you used to grip my soul in fear has vanished with the torment of your visions. The paralyzing power you once used to make me small, Now sets [...]
Tags: Spirituality
Have you ever been afraid of “hell?” As a child were you frightened or manipulated by an adult who used “hell” as a means of controlling you? Fundy preachers use “hell” to get people “saved” they say, but underneath it all, it is more about controlling people than anything else. Why the hell do some people want or need to believe in an eternal fiery torment that comes from their “God” who is anything but love? Well, now you can [...]
Tags: Aramaic Jesus, Spirituality
Did you have any experiences today that required you to choose between forgiveness and holding on to the pain? Between hate and love? Between causing yourself more pain or healing what is holding you back from your highest Self? In thinking about our power of memory and the ability to recall experiences that have wounded us, the pain associated with them, and the choices we’ve habitually made around these, I was also remembering the experiences that have brought me great [...]
Tags: Divine Within, Spiritual Path
How often do we habitually focus on what is “wrong” with us rather than what is good? How often do others focus on what they can criticize rather than praise? Today, how has your Divinity been shining through? That act of kindness, the moment you included someone else, that energy of support, the act of empathy for someone else, that word of encouragement, your action of creativity, or your cooperation with another? All of these and much, much more are [...]
Tags: Divine Within, Spirituality
The great dichotomy in our world is Christians who are trying to ride two horses at the same time. Jesus said, “you cannot serve two masters” so choose which you will follow. He also said, “It is impossible to mount two horses or to stretch two bows! In honoring one, the other is offended.” For centuries Christianity has been trying to ride one “horse” of theology and another “horse” of claiming they are following Jesus. They absolutely cannot do both, [...]
Tags: Aramaic Jesus, Divinity Within
Running through a forest blindfolded will not get you very far down a wooded trail that winds through the trees, boulders, logs, and underbrush. Yet that is very much like someone who is trying to discover their personal spiritual path by depending upon any man-made religion. Being battered and bruised from running into trees you can’t see is like being blindsided by the theological barriers, rules, and belief structures of religious institutions. For many people, to follow the “path” that [...]
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Easter??? Is Jesus dead or alive? He certainly is not present in a Christianity that is more focused on “sin” and condemnation than they are in “turning the other cheek.” He is not present in the churches that have forgotten and forsaken his teachings. Today’s extremist fundamentalists and mega churches are a lie! They are false because the church has lost Jesus and long departed from what he taught about practicing love and claiming The Divine that is within each [...]
Tags: Aramaic Jesus, Spiritual Path
Is your favorite subject “pain and suffering?” Probably not, yet we all experience this and many times don’t realize the powerful value of it. We must remember that pain comes from what happens to us, but suffering comes from dwelling on the pain. I think there are two main values in experiencing the trauma of pain/suffering. 1) We all know that we are living in a temporary world, yet why are we so attached to what is passing away? One [...]
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I’ve been away for a few days helping my son move from New Orleans to Washington, D.C. So, the question in my mind lately has been, “Why do we hold on to pain and suffering?” I did that for too many years mostly because I didn’t know how to move through it, heal it and transform it into loving others. Do we hold on to pain so we can keep making excuses for being angry about it? So we can [...]
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Who is the “missing person” in your life? Who is it that is causing you the most difficulty? Who is adding the most good to your life? With whom are you dancing when you are all alone? The truth is we are much more than we’ve ever been allowed to claim. But why do we wait for anyone else to approve or disapprove? Today is the day to claim all the beauty that we have yet to bring forth from [...]
Tags: Divine Within, Spirituality
As a former minister, Jim Stacey uncovers how Christianity has perverted the message of Jesus in Jesus was not a Christian. Instead of practicing love for our neighbors, love for enemies, turning the other cheek, the kingdom within, and birthing a new self that Jesus said were paramount for one who claims to follow him, Christians have blindly followed church rules and regulations. Stacey shows just how much has been lost, including a recognition of the feminine face of God. Belief held no power for Jesus, but practicing his message was all that mattered. Christianity has lost the Jesus they claim to follow, but in Jesus was not a Christian, Stacey brings back Jesus and his real message. Provocative and inspirational, Jesus was not a Christian points the way to a deeper spiritual practice of Jesus' words, instead of just more religion.
