Understanding Spirituality and Culture through Christ
When life seems overwhelming and you feel stuck in a state of frustration, to get unstuck, start with empathy follow up with meaningful response by celebrating your agency to choose and you would be following on Frodo’s footsteps, bravely matching to Mordor!
Read MoreWhen we are stuck in obsessions, trying to find our happiness and rest through some attachment of ours, the way to let go of our obsessions is to to trust in God for our rest and happiness. Life is a journey with God. It is a journey filled with wonder towards freedom. It is our trust in God who fuels this journey of wonder towards freedom.
Read MoreThe account, of Souron and the Numenorean men, is a retelling of the Genesis chapter 3 account of the Fall of man. In Genesis the devil, in the form of the serpent, plants an idea in the mind of Adam and Eve - the idea that God was "holding out on them." God was preventing them from eating the fruit, becoming God-like. Once Adam and Eve allowed this distrustful seed to take root, the bait was taken.
Read MoreWhen I was a kid, Robin Williams was enough to make me happy and hopeful for more happiness. Now that I have grown and become more aware of the cynical hopeless of life, my need for wonder and hunger for hope to compensate for the 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short' life has grown such that I need more than a phenomenally talented Robin William, I need a powerful and loving, transcended and immanent God to make my happy.
Read MoreIn the depths of deep despair, when we appear to be lost tumbling about in void without a sense of orientation of who we are and what we are to do, we will do ourselves a favor by reminding ourselves of the our true place in the BIG Story of redemption that God is writing.
Read MoreAll that is gold does not glitter; Not all those who wander are lost... These words speak powerfully to the Christian living in the human condition. In life, everybody wanders. We never stay in one place. The question really is, are we wandering towards a destiny or are we truly lost.
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