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Month: October 2015 (Page 9 of 10)

One Body, Many Parts

As the body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ.  For in one spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.(1Corinthians 12:12-13 New American Bible translation)

We’ve all heard this one before, right?  We’ve read it, we’ve heard homilies and sermons on what it means and how it applies to our lives.  However, we will never truly be able to understand it ourselves until we understand that there exists a spiritual realm, that “we are spiritual beings having a human experience” as Pierre Tielhard de Chardin said.  I believe that a lack of understanding of this spiritual realm is the reason it is so difficult for Catholics and non-Catholics alike to understand what we mean by the True Presence of Christ, but I’ll leave that for another day. Continue reading

Perception vs. Reality

What is it about this situation that bothers me? What is it about this person’s words or deed that rubbed me the wrong way?

As I continue to be consistent with the various spiritual practices I have adopted in order to grow closer to God and increase my peace and joy of life, I have learned to live from the heart as opposed to living from the mind.  Obviously, living from the heart means that our words and deeds come from a place of love, while living from the mind means to be driven by the ego.  I cannot pinpoint the exact moment the conversion happened but I can say with much certainty that the conversion occurred as a result of regular prayer, meditation, journaling and scripture reading. Since this conversion, I notice that I do not react so quickly but “sit” with whatever it is that is causing me to lose my peace, to sit with whatever it is that is causing me to move back into my mind.  What I have realized by doing this is the thing that is bothering me is simply my PERCEPTION and not necessarily reality. Continue reading

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