God Understands the Weakness of Our Love
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. Psalm 103:13-13 I am convinced that we all…
Growth in Community
It is fairly natural and perhaps even necessary that a new community is taken up with its own originality and tends to idealize itself. If it didn’t believe itself to be unique, perhaps it would never have been founded at…
Community With Terrorists?
The community knows that the fundamental questions of life can only be looked at in a spirit of peace and inner freedom. Nobody can force anyone else to love and to walk to freedom. Militants for a cause will tend…
Yes and No . . . to Love
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships with parents, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and…
Living Life in a Straight Line
Life itself – and Scripture too – is always three steps forward and two steps backward. It gets the point and then loses it or doubts it . . . Isn’t it a consolation to know that life is not…
True Experience of God
…mysticism in both the East and West understands revelation to mean experience. The Divine reveals itself to humans directly and much more intensely in the happening of the moment. Then, in that moment, human beings find the real presence of…
New Living From The Heart Courses
New Living From The Heart courses have recently begun in Alberta, BC, and Washington state. The Alberta course is held at King’s Fold Retreat and Renewal Center beginning in October 2014. The BC course is held at The Lodge at Twin Creeks, Abbotsford…
The Essence of Being Human
It is in loving (or not loving) that we are (or are not) human. It is in heeding the call to love – in making life-affirming connections – that we become human. . . . . Loving is not merely…