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explorefaith.org Newsletter
September 21, 2005

In this issue
  • Oasis Meditations: Something for Everyone
  • Reflections for Your Journey
  • In the News and On Our Minds
  • Stepping Stones for Spiritual Growth

  • Reflections for Your Journey
    Reflections for Your Journey





    Actively Letting Go

    Letting go is a participatory process, not a passive one. Our task is to have the courage to identify what needs to be released, THEN be willing to work with God to let it go.

    It's hard to let go of something until you know what you're grasping. It's also impossible to let go unless you're sincerely WILLING to be free of it. Sometimes we have an unspoken ego investment in holding on to what ails us.

    Once we make the commitment, we watch for ways that we can cooperate with God's guidance. For instance, if we say we want to let go of our resentment but we continue to talk about "what a rotten thing they did," then we are not participating! We are reinforcing the negative pattern.

    We must have response-ability---that is, engage our God- given ability to respond, rather than react.

    --from "An Interview with Linda Douty",
    author of How Can I Let Go if I Don't Know I am Holding On?


    In the News and On Our Minds
    In the News and ON OUR MINDS




    Hurricane Katrina - Why Did It Happen?

    That?s the basic question, isn?t it? That?s the question that most of us are trying to answer, and we come at our answers from very different perspectives.
    --Jon M. Sweeney


    Stepping Stones for Spiritual Growth
    Stepping Stones for Spiritual Growth




    Round and Round We Go

    It seems we are all in a race against the clock. Most of the time, our racing takes place at a subconscious or even unconscious level. But there are those times when we become keenly aware that the ticking timepiece has claimed our life's energy.
    --Renée Miller


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