What I Believe – You and Your Higher Power

I first heard about the "God Box" nearly 35 years ago at a 12 step meeting.  A member of the group said that when she wrote a note to God about a situation that was  troubling her, she felt better and the problem seemed to get resolved relatively quickly.   I couldn't wait to try it.  I had been weighed down by struggles for so long, it seemed. It was clear from what she said that any kind of container would work as the "box."  I went home immediately after the meeting and set about finding the perfect container.  It was a gold metal can with a lid that h[...]

I heard a great message this morning at The Recovery Church in St. Paul.  It was about the power we each have to experience life how we'd like it to be.  It falls on us to see differently if we want a different experience. Shifting our perception of a person or a situation does change us; it changes our attitude and our behavior. Perhaps you think it's hard to shift your perception but I assure you, it isn't.  It takes a little willingness to ask our Higher Power for the help  to do it. That's all.  And that's not very much, is it? I heard about this "tool[...]

Every morning I participate in a phone conference with eight or ten women and we discuss a spiritual passage from a book that we all read together on the call.  This morning's message was the title of this blog and reading it gave me such comfort.  I fought the idea of letting God be in charge for so many years, in childhood and as an adult.  He simply didn't cross my mind with much frequency which seems strange to recall since He crosses my mind multiple times a day now.  And if his presence lived in the frontal lobe of my mind, I'd never be at a loss for wha[...]

Whew!!  I am struggling to learn some thing new. I have never been very high tech.  In fact, my first five books were written in long hand and I hired a typist just as I had done for my dissertation in graduate school.  At the urging of friends I decided to give the computer a go and amazed myself that I could type and think simultaneously. When it came to the internet, I again was timid at first, but I did go forward and learned how to  e-mail and explore the web for information. Next came a need for a web site.  Writers need one I was told.  But how[...]

I referred to the spiritual value inherent in the slogan, Let Go and Let God, in the last blog.  I mention it again because it's so important to free ourselves of stress and any time we try to take the reigns that either belong to some one else or to God, we are going to be met with frustration, stress, anger or, at the very least, resistance.  No one wins when we are intent on trying to be in charge of the circumstances of some one else's life.  We may even have a very good idea for them to try, but if they resist, we simply must let go. I have done a lot of[...]