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Category: Growing Deeper

Resources for cultivating a life-long journey of a deeply personal relationship with God and more meaningful relationships with others. Rooted deeply in a paradigm of love and acceptance, you continue in your unique Spirit-inspired spiritual / faith journey. Employing the insights of ancient and contemporary thinkers, poets, prophets and sages, you are provided with tools to develop your own unique relationship with God in a way that encourages healthy faith in the day to day of real life. Discovering abundant life and meaning which is consistent with who you were created to be.

Overcoming Negativity with Gratitude

Posted on September 12, 2016September 12, 2016 by Michael Rose
Once upon an ancient time, there were two people wandering through the desert. They were two amongst many thousands of individuals. They were fleeing captivity of an oppressive King.  Called out of their captivity by God, they were a little confused and frightened, and hopeful for a better life. A homeland of their own. A promised…
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Being Uniquely You is its Best Reward

Posted on August 10, 2016August 10, 2016 by Michael Rose
Consider These flowers do what they were made to do. To bloom, to bring beauty and colour in their own way – regardless of who is there to applaud them. So it is with us. Let us do what we are made to do – to bring forth the fragrant beauty and wonder that we…
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Outgrowing Our Best Stories

Posted on May 17, 2016June 23, 2016 by Michael Rose
Whenever we talk about God, we are talking about mystery. Sometimes all our good thinking about God can domesticate God into a systematic, compartmentalized way of knowing and relating to God. While many of us would agree that God is much bigger than our biggest, best thoughts many of us live unwittingly as a hostage…
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Sun behind all suns – Prayer

Posted on March 21, 2016June 23, 2016 by Michael Rose
Sun behind all suns, Soul behind all souls, ….. Show to us in everything we touch and in everyone we meet the continued assurance of Your presence ‘round us: lest ever we should think you are absent. In all created things You are there. In every friend we have the sunshine of Your presence is shown…
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Can’t Buy the Kingdom of God

Posted on March 1, 2016March 14, 2018 by Michael Rose
There is a virus that seeks to hijack healthy spirituality. In effect, it makes not only our faith very small, but it makes us smaller as people. The difficulty is that this virus masquerades as a form of godliness, and it works it’s toxicity subtlely at first, and before we know it, we are scratching…
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Renewing of our Minds: 8 Deadly Thoughts

Posted on February 27, 2016June 23, 2016 by Michael Rose
The Apostle Paul, writing to the church in Rome and encourages them in a new way of living – the way of love. To do so, Paul suggests we need to renew of our mind by embracing Kingdom values, specifically love, and no longer conforming to the patterns of the world. This renewing of our…
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Spiritual Journey Series – Interior Castle 3

Posted on February 16, 2016June 23, 2016 by Michael Rose
This seven-part series explores St. Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle. This is not a program to be worked but as we explore each facet in a general sense, we will gain a deeper perspective of the journey and where we may be at any giving time. The spiritual journey requires effort and deliberateness as much as…
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Spiritual Journey Series – Interior Castle 2

Posted on January 20, 2016June 23, 2016 by Michael Rose
This seven-part series explores St. Teresa’s Interior Castle. This is not a program to be worked, but as we explore each facet in a general sense, we will gain a deeper perspective of the journey and where we may be at any giving time. The spiritual journey requires effort and deliberateness as much as grace. It…
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Joy of Good News

Posted on December 17, 2015December 4, 2018 by Michael Rose
There are many kinds of good news. The best news for me was the birth of my three sons, and seeing them each succeed in their own ways. For some, good news may be winning the lottery or an all clear on a medical test, getting a new job or buying a new car. We…
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Loving Others Provides Gifts for the Giver

Posted on October 21, 2015June 23, 2016 by Michael Rose
Love continues to be the foundation of the work I do with IamSignificant.ca and as a spiritual director. Much more potent than a Sunday school sentiment for Children, becoming love is the very essence of the Kingdom of God. I am totally convinced that love changes everything. It is the single biggest longing in the…
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