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Our thoughts are powerful forces in the creation of our experience of life. You may be able to recall a time when frustration that was based on a misunderstanding completely evaporated when your understanding changed. This is because our interpretation defines our experience, and it can change in an instant. Our only true reality is…
Read more Today's Pondering: Change your mind, change your life…
Last night, during church, the pastor said something that made me wonder if some things I’ve said in my previous posts might possibly be misconstrued. My aim in creating this blog was to open a dialogue about how God reaches different people through different means. The idea for this blog came to me during prayer and it would not…
Taken from Beliefnet.com. Q: I can observe anger and work with greed, but how does one observe delusion? A: You’re riding a horse and asking “Where’s the horse?” Pay attention. – Ajahn Chah
I found some interesting information about the spiritual causes of stress at Stress-Free-Mama.com . I thought I would share them here at LTF. Questioning “Who am I?” “Why am I here?” “Do I matter?” Teenagers can experience this type of stress. Not being in the now. Anticipating and fearing the future and replaying the past. Resistance.…
In religion there are no national boundaries. A religion can and should be used by any people or person who finds it beneficial. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
My immediate answer to this would be, “No.” Truthfully, that notion seems a little arrogant to me. I realize that my Christian friends might disagree with me, but I truly believe that God would not have given us such diversity in this world without also expecting diversity in our styles of worship. Religions such as Sikhism believe in…
Read more Today's Pondering: Does God only hear in Christian?
I recently read a post about a family that actually fakes being Christian to fit in with others in their community. This post was not surprising to me. As disturbing as the article was, at least this family was big enough to admit that they are faking. So often I wonder if the people I encounter…
I have to admit, I never really understood what Lent was all about until recently. I knew that it involved giving something up for a certain amount of time as a show of faith or something like that, but I didn’t really get it. Coincidentally, I recently decided to stop drinking soda. I didn’t really do…
This funny story was taken from This Day’s Thought: Adam Clarke, a well-known theologian and commentator, was an early riser. A young preacher wanted the eminent minister to tell him how he managed it. “Do you pray about it?” he asked. “No,” was the reply. “I just get up.”~The Standard
Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt … even if you say to this mountain, “Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,” it will be done.~Matthew 21:21 According to Christianity, living by faith is a the way to go. If you have faith in and accept your God and…
Read more Today's Pondering: Faith and the Power of Positive Thinking
Leading the Follower 