Spiritual Growth
This category contains creative writing about personal growth and spiritual practices, in articles, essays, fiction and poetry.
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How To Satisfy Your Spiritual Hunger
When you experience spiritual hunger where do you turn to satisfy it? Many people find a fount of spiritual blessing in places like a forest path, or a…
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How to pray for your enemies
I have a confession to make. I find it difficult to pray for my enemies - people I abhor for good reason. I even fall short of praying…
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How to Welcome the Feeling of Vulnerability
Vulnerability - the scary feeling that arises when someone asks you to speak publically or to explain why you made a certain decision. If you have ever worn…
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What Is The Meaning of ‘Bread Broken For You’?
Bread is a perfect metaphor for our bodies. When Jesus held up a loaf of bread and said "This is my body broken for you" he used a…
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Closing churches and open hearts
Although the vast majority of people have hearts open to love and serve others and to grow spiritually, traditional places of worship are closing rapidly.
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Where Do You Find Food for a Hungry Soul?
Sometimes when you have a hungry soul you just want the equivalent of 'take-out', something you can enjoy from home. Here are several resources for good spiritual take-out.
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Do You Let The Fear of Missing Out Control Your Life?
The term FOMO, fear of missing out, describes the anxiety that arises with thoughts that there may be a better, more fulling experience than we are having right…
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Where to look when you want to find God
Where do you look when you want to find God? Is it a place? Perhaps a state of mind? In others or in nature? Join with the author's…
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How to Live Fully and Get the Most Out of Life
But what does it mean to live fully? And how can we achieve it? here are five tips for living a full life that includes purpose, faith, risks,…
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Dekker Speaks Out About God and Prayer
Dekker weighs in on question asked by people who
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How our spirituality is affected by aging
Our spiritualty is a result of many factors, but growing older may be one of the most important. This article looks at how spirituality is affected by aging.
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What is the Value of Failure
When we count all of our assets toward the end of life, we don't want to forget the value of failure that has given us seeds of wisdom…
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How to Hear Music as Metaphor for Life
How music is a metaphor for a life orchestrated in melody, rhythm, and silence.
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Why Tiny Things Matter Most in Life
It is hard to grasp that tiny things can make the biggest impact on our lives. Little details are essential in achieving long-term goals.
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Two ways you can begin practicing for death today
We find the strength for accepting death when we have been showing hospitality to death all along. This article lays out two ways to do this.
