explorefaith.org Newsletter
December 28, 2005

In this issue
  • How to Find the Way Forward
  • Reflections for Your Journey
  • We Can Make a Difference
  • Where Do We Go From Here?

  • Reflections for Your Journey
    Reflections for Your Journey





    When It Seems Your Prayers Are Unanswered
    While you live within the bounds of earth?s time and want an answer from heaven that is on your timetable, it?s important to remember that God is outside of time.

    As one friend of mine says, ?God?s clock has no hands.?

    Even when it doesn?t feel like anything at all is happening, God is hearing and answering.

    And you might be surprised to find that what you are seeking comes not when you want it, but just at the moment that you need it.

    by Renee Miller,
    your Spiritual Coach


    We Can Make a Difference


    I've never been much of one to celebrate [the new year] with bells or cymbals or staying up into the wee morning hours.

    Rather, I tend to get reflective and prayerful, and become keenly aware of things as they are and things as they might yet become.

    For example, I find myself asking ...

    from "Reflections on a New Year"
    by Peggy Gunness


    Where Do We Go From Here?


    The holiday season has become for lots of people more of an obstacle than a celebration?
    something to be endured and survived. ...

    The problem with that attitude is that it reveals exactly how mistaken we are about the nature of Christmas. ...

    from "Where Do We Go From Here?"
    by Bob Hansel


    How to Find the Way Forward
    Becoming Human

    A job change beckons or is forced upon us: What now? ...

    We're in a very unhappy marriage: How much effort to rebuild trust and intimacy is enough? ...

    We're wrestling with decisions about the care of elderly parents: How do we balance family responsibility with our own personal needs and boundaries? ...

    We pray for God's guidance, and nothing seems to come back. No skywriting, no burning bush. What do we do? ...

    an excerpt from
    "Becoming Human:
    How to Find the Way Forward"
    by Brian Taylor

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