Category Archives: 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.

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Spirituality and the Sense of Smell

Spirituality and the Sense of Smell
Last Sunday afternoon, my family and I took a walk in a park along the Old Man River in Southern Alberta. The gusty west winds had done their job relieving the old Poplar trees of their leaves. The gusty wind was shifting, and swirling the fallen leaves on the ground. With each step, the crunch of…
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Loved into Love

Loved into Love
The daily lectionary reading for today included a passage from Galatians 5. It contrasts the works of selfishness (flesh) and that of love (the Spirit). I like the way that Eugene Peterson's The Message renders it: “It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time:…
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Overcoming Negativity with Gratitude

Overcoming Negativity with Gratitude
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

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

Outgrowing Our Best Stories
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

Sun behind all suns – Prayer
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

Can’t Buy the Kingdom of God
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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Two Parades. The Lie of Sacred Violence

Two Parades. The Lie of Sacred Violence
It was the beginning of Passover as Jesus and his friends headed to Jerusalem for the to celebrate Israel's liberation from Egypt.  Word spread that He was on His way to the city. People ran out to meet this Jesus who was taking the land by storm, with his radical teachings of love; turning the…
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Renewing of our Minds: 8 Deadly Thoughts

Renewing of our Minds: 8 Deadly Thoughts
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

Spiritual Journey Series – Interior Castle 3
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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