Spiritual Life And Practice

Articles for inspiration and insight on what it might mean to practice the Word on a daily basis.

The Circles And Spirals Of His Covenant

"All are predestined to heaven and none to hell" (Divine Providence 330). However, there are externals that need to be removed in order to uncover the states that belong to the Lord and the states that don’t. And the Word instructs us regarding the process, and the devastation that follows. It points out the cycle of ownership - of the repeating spiral of merit and guilt as the internal and external man combat against each other, each fighting to be the one in the rule… or so it feels ...

The Dance of Wholeness

Exploring the dance that is created between the fluctuations of the self that is based in what is lower, and the self that is based in what is higher, that is based in the Logos. And of how the idea of ‘quantum potential” might be included in this conversation: “....any particular element of space may have a field that unfolds into the whole, and the whole folds and enfolds it to it” - David Bohm (physicist) ...

The Freedom Of Providence

Spiritual freedom revolves around the concept of opposites and the ability to make a choice between good and evil. And it is the Word that offers us this ability ...

The Impermanent Nature Of The Self

Most people believe that who they are is something that remains constant throughout their life. But then this raises the question, If the self is a permanent constant thing, then, how does this fit with the idea that creation is a constant coming into being, and that the Divine alone is immutable? And that finite life by definition, as we have just seen, is change? ...

The Lord’s Designs On Our Life

We all inevitably have states that are challenging and although it may not feel like the Lord has completely left us, it certainly becomes difficult to reconcile what our hearts know of the Lord and what we are understanding in regards to what is in front of us. Sometimes finding the connection … feels insurmountable ...

The Name Of Jehovah – The Tetragrammaton

A deeper look into the four Hebrew letter names Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey (YeHoWaH or Y-H-W-H) of the One who spoke to Moses from the burning bush - and what it reveals and calls us to in terms of our spiritual work ...

The Paradox Of Perfection

We can’t know Perfection itself but we need some finite idea of perfection in order to comprehend what it is that we’re experiencing in these new ways of understanding. So we’re offered variety. Variations of different forms of the Divine in our finite understanding ...

The Servant And His Love – A Mother’s Tale

The Lords’s descent into our world follows the same events as the Word’s descent into our mind. An exploration of what the human from Mary and the human from the Father are in terms of our own inner spiritual processes of transformation ...

The Smell Of The Sensuous Life

"And I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. Amos 4:10 ... Stop for a moment. What can you smell?  What feelings does it evoke? What thoughts does that lead to? So which came first? What you smelt, or what you felt or thought when you smelt it? ...