Articles on Nature

  • Say yes

    Say yes

    Say yes to each new, unexpected manifestation of love. ~James Finley

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  • Life at the Pace of Walking

    Life at the Pace of Walking

    Today’s post is by Cordelia Burpee “Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.” ~Abraham Joshua Heschel I have been doing a lot of walking lately. I thought it might be boring—all that time alone with no one to talk to, nothing to listen to—but I have realized…

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  • Simplicity comes

    Simplicity comes

    Simplicity comes when we are wholly yielded to God. ~Thomas Kelly  

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  • Letting God Lead

    Letting God Lead

    Today’s post is by the late Gerald May There is a huge difference, I have found, between acting as if God were leading—which is what I do when my ego tries to decide and implement what God wants—and really letting God lead, which happens when my ego stops filtering and controlling and begins simply to…

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  • Full Openness

    Full Openness

    Full openness is God’s image revealed in us. ~Tilden Edwards    

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  • Exposed to the Light

    Exposed to the Light

    Everything exposed to the Light itself becomes light. ~Ephesians 5:14  

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