Tag: authentic living

Avoidance

What is Spiritual Bypassing?

Posted on by Michael Rose
Their loved one was palliative with only a couple of days to live.   Everything medical that could be done had been done and her cancer-ravaged body was plain worn out.  The goals of care were to keep her comfortable. Her husband vacillated from ‘this is Gods will’, “fighting the enemy to the end”  and “staying…
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The Crazy Father

Posted on by Michael Rose
A father had two sons, and one of his sons came to him and said, “Dad, I have been thinking it’s time for me to leave and find myself. I need to figure out who I am and make my fortune, my own way in the world. So, I would like you to give me…
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Dream a little Dream with Me

Posted on by Michael Rose
I have been asked, “Where are you coming from with IamSignificant.ca?  Is it self-help/ self-improvement? Or is it spiritual / faith stuff?  Grief/loss care?  What is it?”  I smile and say, “Yes, and more!“ I am coming from a place that mystic and monk Thomas Merton so aptly states – it’s all spiritual, or none…
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“God gives but doesn’t share”

Posted on by Michael Rose
This little saying was in my inbox the other morning.  It is a snippet from Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder,  the story about a person named Paul Farmer and his work in Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia. Farmer is a physician and medical anthropologist spending his career working to improve healthcare for some of the poorest…
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Welcome to my Garden

Posted on by Michael Rose
Take your shoes off in the garden of my soul for it is holy ground. You are welcome in the vulnerability of your bare feet to spend some time and be refreshed. All I ask is that you stay to the path as not to trample and crush the most delicate of new vegetation, and…
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The Both-And approach to Fear

Posted on by Michael Rose
It was a simple statement on my feed this morning.  They stated, “Faith and worry cannot co-exist.” With a sigh, I asked, “So then why is it that fear and faith co-exist all the time?” We have to do better than mere platitudes. Surely Christian spirituality is more robust in the crucible of real life….
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What we think they see

Posted on by Michael Rose
A strange adventure at Costco last Wednesday. As I was pushing my cart, doing my shopping and people watching I saw a lady walk towards me with what looked like a nasty bruise right in the middle of her forehead. I thought to myself ‘I wonder what she walked into?’ A few minutes later I saw…
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From your Head to your Heart

Posted on by Michael Rose
“You must descend from your head into your heart. At present, your thoughts of God are in your head.  And God himself is, as it were, outside you, and so your prayer and other spiritual exercises remain exterior. Whilst you are still in your head, thoughts will not easily be subdued but will always be whirling about, like snow in winter or clouds…
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deeper life

An obstacle to Deeper Living

Posted on by Michael Rose
As I often write and my friends and clients are all too familiar, I am a huge fan of becoming, journey type of language.  The key here is we don’t ever arrive and each present moment opens to a new present moment, hopefully with each adding a little more light, a little more understanding of…
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I wish I could hate them.

Posted on by Michael Rose
I wish I could hate them. In ways, it would be so much easier. Their violence, racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, greed, exploitation of the poor, the anything-to-win-politics and indiscriminate, consumption of the planet and each other.  I hate the scapegoating, half-truths, spins … all the bullshit.  I hate the value of winning at all…
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