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Happy Easter, Dear Friends:

No matter how many times we fall down or lose our way, love lets us try again. With a grateful heart, I keep at it.

Peace and joy in my best effort seem like a bonus; but they were always intended as part of the grace. Who knew diligence could be so exhilarating, and a life of falling down and getting up so glorious!

Happy Easter! It’s another day to start again, with more life, more love. … More

WE DON’T HAVE TO STAND OUTSIDE LOOKING IN …

Our minds allow us to intellectualize the truth, our senses allow us to see and touch some elements of the truth. But there are elements of the truth that we cannot rationalize, or see, or touch.
We must feel them … and to do that, we use what some would call our hearts.

Imagine a room with God in it. There is a huge window into the room and God is wired; he can be seen and heard. Several people stand at the window. Each is asked to explain God.

One describes with impeccable detail what God looks like. Another describes the audible breathing heard from the room, analyzing the intensity, the calmness, and a sigh . Still another theorizes what God’s purpose is for visiting the room.

Another, sitting silently with his eyes closed, realizes that there is a door between him and God, and that it was intended to be used. And what he feels when he opens the door cannot be experienced through the window. Neither can it be passed on to the others. They must experience it for themselves!


Mysticism (exemplified by Christ, Buddha, and every great spiritual teacher) requires that we go inward, that we venture through the door to spirit and experience God personally.… More