The Pulse of Spirit

These words are from a service at Sunrise Ranch during the Arise Music and Camping Festival. The song “What a Wonderful World” was sung with a pantomime of everyday human interchanges. HELENA KARCHERE: It is a wonderful world. And events

Home Where I come from is a place without form. A place both larger and smaller than even I can comprehend. At home, I am not singular or separate, but my being is in all things. At home, I am

Will there come a time when the memories fade And pass on with the long, long years? When the ties no longer bind Lord save me from this darkest fear Don’t let me come home a stranger I couldn’t stand

At lunch today somebody was telling me that they are having an experience at Sunrise Ranch of healing their inner child, as they put it. And they realized that, with that healing, there were things that they could have been

(Carol Robertson, on Vancouver Island, BC, shared her original poem “Stillness Is Now.”) Stillness Aaahhh – Stillness Breathe it in. Breathe it out. In the midst of the explosion of colour And deepening green of summer, Breathe stillness in. Breathe

Happy Father’s Day to all you fathers and to all of us. I celebrate a new reality of fatherhood—not the old father who is either abandoning his world and his responsibilities, not acting for the good of his family or

Consider the difference between an old thought and a new one. How does it feel when you have an old thought—a thought you have had many times before? A pestering thought, a gnawing thought? Such thoughts are often accompanied by

When we think of all the things that happen in our culture and what is most pivotal for the change that is occurring, there are two areas that are pivotal: education and spirituality. There are many other facets of our

It was a delight to view the royal wedding—the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. I couldn’t help but think of Princess Diana, Harry’s mother. She was the beginning of a loveliness that appeared in the wedding ceremony. I

Usually heaven is thought of as someplace you experience “later”—if it is thought about at all. It is the hereafter, as it’s sometimes referred to. Or someplace totally removed from the human space in which we live. Whatever heaven may