The Pulse of Spirit

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

Here’s to the South African rugby team, the Springboks! Congratulations! They just won the 2019 Rugby World Cup. I feel the glory! Feeling my South African friends reveling in their victory, I couldn’t help but think that my life is

We are each at a different stage in letting the higher reality of who we are descend into us. Some are more or less looking the other way. They are very much about their worldly journey—the people they meet, the

I’d like to explore what it means to be a keeper of the shrine, and to be a living shrine oneself. The shrine is, in essence, a cup. And it’s meaningful as a shrine because the cup is turned upward

Sunrise Ranch is a shrine. Sunrise Ranch is a holy shrine. Sunrise Ranch is a holy shrine. That’s why I came here. I believe it’s why you came here. We who live here are keepers of that holy shrine. It’s

There is an academic origin of the phrase human drama. As it has come to be used as a description of an endlessly degenerating pattern of human interaction, it comes from the work of Stephen Karpman, who was a student