Soulshine

“What you have believed, let it be done for you.” Jesus Christ , Matthew 8 Ralph Waldo Emerson said every person is a doorway through which the Infinite passes into the finite. If this is true, and it sounds reasonable to me, then it sheds light on the above words of Jesus. We are all doorways and God flows through each of us into the world. As such, what we believe is crucial. If we believe in spiritual healing, our belief opens our inner-door and allows the power of God to bring healing to us. Thus what we believe is done for us— by God. If we believe we are worthwhile, lovable, attractive and capable people, it will be done for us. If we believe we deserve the best in life, it will be done for us. Likewise, if we believe we deserve to have the dark, wounded places healed within us, it will be done for us. Is this magic? No. If we believe we are worthy of all that is good, we will attract what we need to make our lives better. For example, if we have deep inner-wou...

Today is Ash Wednesday, and I have been asked “Where are your ashes?” To which I replied “I am wearing them inside—within my empty spaces—where they will hopefully bring spiritual healing; and where they will eventually bring more good to the world than a one day public display on the forehead that is largely forgotten by the next day.”    If you practice Lent, allow it to be a genuine-internal-spiritual tour de force that propels you to love and bless the world with great goodness from within you. Do not allow it to simply be a hollow-external-ashen show of shows to garner public approval from outside of you. Public approval is for the religious. Choose to be spiritual, instead, and you will learn that Love is more valuable than any form of public approval.