Life in the Heart of God

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Life in the Heart of God

A Journey Into Relevant Faith

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Is faith relevant in your life?

These pages will put you on a pathway to Relevant Faith and Life In and From the Heart of God.

Before you were born, where were you? After your body dies, where will you be?

You know the answer to both of these questions, but you have forgotten. You are functioning detached, to some degree, from the source of your existence. I recently asked a ten year old these same two questions. Without hesitation she answered, “With God” to both questions. I asked the same question of a thirty year old and he answered this way: Before I was born I didn’t exist and after I die I will be nowhere, just dead.” My pastoral heart was uplifted by the answer of the ten-year old and my heart sank when I heard the answer of the thirty-year old.

There is undeniably a serious disconnect for many between what traditional religion endeavors to teach and what is internalized and becomes spiritually relevant. Going through the motions, enduring the experience of church is woefully insufficient to awaken us to the truth of our spiritual identity. For many the faith we hold during childhood is simple, carefree and uncomplicated. As we grow in years, our simple knowing is abandoned and replaced by a flood of contradictory information. Some of the information we receive is the truth; some of it is laced with fear passed on mindlessly from generation to generation, well intentioned, but fraught with misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Additionally, our personal experience often contradicts what we once believed to be true.

Waking spiritually is the most fulfilling event of any human life. We are spiritual beings, having a human experience. We have forgotten who we truly are, where we came from, and where we will return. Connecting or reconnecting with the truth frees and empowers us to be not all that we can be, but all that we are.

If Christian ancestry, family tradition, personal experience or personal choice have been your essential faith foundation, these pages may provide a pathway that will lead you through the briar patch of traditional religion, to what can become faith, relevant in your daily life, and home to the truth about yourself and God. The gap may be bridged between what you were taught that has not connected and establishing a new understanding related to your spiritual identity.

If you have very little or no specific faith foundation, these pages offer information that will establish a foundation from which your spiritual core will become visible and enable you to connect with your truest identity. You will enter your personal Spiritual Dawn and Life In and From the Heart of God.

I thought my religious faith experience had created my faith. I now know that my religious experience supported what was true before my birth and I had forgotten, and to which we all become disconnected to some degree. I invite you to journey with me, creating a bridge from our earthbound reality back to divine truth, which transcends space and time.

Remember This:

You are a spiritual being having a human experience. You have come from God and you will return to God’s loving presence. Living from your spiritual essence (love), your life has no limits and you become a healing light in this world.