Showing posts with label parables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parables. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Creative Intentionality                                            
                                                                                                                        

Charles Fillmore often used the phrase "seed thoughts" and wrote in  Jesus Christ Heals that  All things are in God as potentialities. I believe creative intentionality can be defined by weighing the difference between creative passion and technical perfection in musical performances.  When Michael Turner, one of our musicians, plays his sax, his whole body sings with the music.  By contrast, a pianist I once knew could perform beautifully on the baby grand piano at Unity Village.  His performance was technically perfect, but there was no corresponding passion uniting him with the music and none of us would have dreamed of approaching him.

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Spiritually Empowered Wholeness

Life Is More Than Occupying Space                                                                                 
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a clear demonstration that death is not final, nor is it the ultimate failure.  The refusal to live to our fullest potential is the only real failure.   Death signifies the transformation from the purely physical to the purely spiritual.  Though our eyes no longer behold the human being we have treasured, our loved one has not ceased to exist but has translated into pure being, pure energy.


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Spiritually Empowered Wholeness

Moving Mountains                                                                                               
A first rate teacher seems irreplaceable, but a truly great teacher sets His students free to grow into their full potential.  Jesus was such a teacher.  He taught parables,  precepts and by example.  He sent them out to teach and to heal, to practice the principles He taught them.  But more was required.

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