The Pulse of Spirit

Ignorance is a significant spiritual practice for anyone. Of course, the word ignorance comes from the same root word as ignore. The root of both words includes the meaning to take no notice of, pay no attention to. When you

What does it take to reach escape velocity? That’s what happens with rockets. Up to a certain point they are earthbound, held within the gravitational field of the Earth. But if they are going on a long journey, at some

When I first came to Sunrise Ranch in 2000, it was in the middle of some turmoil. What I noticed was that people were having a hard time distinguishing between what should change and what shouldn’t. I came to understand

There is a Cosmic Story in which we all have a part. It is a story of people coming together and creating a space that becomes a portal for the Infinite to come in. Recently, I shared a reading from

The Christmas story tells of a birth two thousand years ago. Later in the 1st century, Jesus’ disciple John wrote the prophetic Book of Revelation. In the twelfth chapter, John speaks of another birth. And there appeared a great wonder

Is your week going just the way you wanted it to? Is it perfect in that sense? Is anybody’s life going like that? By now, most of us have come to the realization that that’s not the program. If perfection

Who might you say was the leading character or the hero of the Christmas story? The Baby Jesus is an obvious candidate. It could be Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the angel, or the wise men. It occurs to me that,

Would you say that the world you live in is coming together according to your own thoughts about how it should come together? Are your efforts to make it come together working for you? As I reflect on my own

Soon, at Christmastime, many will be celebrating the birth of Jesus. Of course, we were all born into this world, and except for that, we wouldn’t be here. And still, as we think of our own lives, the greater significance

Grace is the full-on experience of the Spirit of Love. It is the experience of all of us as a human being relating to all of what is there for us in the Invisible. It’s an encounter with something larger