Author Bill Johnson
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Soul Identity: “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” – George MacDonald
The Cracked Pot A legend tells of a man who used to carry water every day to his village, using two large pots tied on either end of a piece of wood, which he placed across his shoulders. One of the… Continue Reading →
First Lesson (by Phillip Booth) Lie back daughter, let your head be tipped back in the cup of my hand. Gently, and I will hold you. Spread your arms wide, lie out on the stream and look high at the… Continue Reading →
The Other Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenity To stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, The courage to forgive myself because I’m working on doing better, And the wisdom to know that You already love me… Continue Reading →
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin (Also attributed to Talmud, Immanuel Kant, G. T. W. Patrick, H. M. Tomlinson and Steven Covey.) So if I am… angry fearful confused scared unloving… Continue Reading →
A poor man lived with his wife and six children in a very small one-room house. They were always getting in each other’s way and there was so little space they could hardly breathe! Finally the man could stand it… Continue Reading →
Blessing the Dust – A Blessing for Ash Wednesday (by Jan Richardson) All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the wind and be scattered to the… Continue Reading →
The Serenity Prayer – God Grant Me… God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one… Continue Reading →
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“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” Karl Menninger
100 Years of Beauty: Aging Video. Every young couple, before getting married should watch this video. It’s wonderful. When we’re young we concentrate on the outward beauty, the skin, the form of the one we love. But isn’t there something… Continue Reading →
100 Years (by Five for Fighting). How quickly time flies, but we often don’t even notice it. How we take for granted that we’ll have many more wonderful years to come. How we so easily lose perspective and take all… Continue Reading →
Love Does That (by Meister Eckhart) All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only burros. And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting… Continue Reading →
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Chocolate Meditation Perhaps you have some chocolate laying around today, the day after Valentines day. Enjoy it! Perhaps you’ll want to add to the enjoyment and appreciation of it with this mindfulness meditation that teaches us the importance of savoring the… Continue Reading →
Twisted Mouth (Written by Surgeon Richard Selzer MD) I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish. A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles of… Continue Reading →
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“And we are put on this earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.” – WILLIAM BLAKE
Love (by Roy Croft) I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you, Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for what You are… Continue Reading →
Not a One! Chad was a shy, quiet little boy. One day he came home and told his mother that he’d like to make a valentine for everyone in his class. Her heart sank. She thought, “I wish he wouldn’t… Continue Reading →
With That Moon Language (by Hafiz) Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, This great pull… Continue Reading →
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To Recognize Your Face “Grant me to recognize in others, Lord God, the radiance of your own face.” Teilhard de Chardin
The Sweetness of Dogs (by Mary Oliver) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. It’s full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes… Continue Reading →
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God of My Future O, God of My Future: Today, I dive into waters, unknown. The sudden embrace of its cold startles me, awakens hiding fear. I do not know about the next, or how it may be cruel. I… Continue Reading →
Saint Francis and the Sow (by Galway Kinnell) The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to… Continue Reading →
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – ALBERT CAMUS Dear God, may this be true for all who struggle, anytime of the year, with low grade depression or situational despair. Could it… Continue Reading →
A Poem in a Bar – My Worst Day Ever? Today was the absolute worst day ever And don’t try to convince me that There’s something good in every day Because, when you take a closer look, This world is… Continue Reading →
Late Fragment (by Raymond Carver) And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. The desire of our hearts?… Continue Reading →
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God, I Want to Love You “Oh, my God, I want to love you not that I might gain eternal heaven nor escape eternal hell, But, Lord, to love you just because you are my God.” Ignatius of Loyola
Shoveling Snow With Buddha (by Billy Collins) In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, tossing the dry snow over a mountain of his bare, round shoulder, his… Continue Reading →
The Parable of the Twins – For a unique perspective on death as “life after life.” Once upon a time, a set of twins were conceived in the same womb. Weeks passed, and the twins developed. As their awareness grew,… Continue Reading →
I Have No Idea Where I am Going My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end nor do I… Continue Reading →
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We Were Made for These Times (by Clarissa Pinkola Estes) My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the… Continue Reading →
"God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is." Macrina Wiederkehr
A wonderful simple prayer to pray to remember the truth of "No condemnation." Listen here.
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What Did I Miss? A soul came into a new body, and immediately, forgetting what she was here for, fell asleep at the beginning of her life. The personality she became went about the business of being human, completely unaware… Continue Reading →
“Bidden or unbidden, God is present.” – CARL JUNG Some say Desiderius Erasmus said this or perhaps Carl Jung popularized it. But whoever coined it first – I love the eternal truth of it. and it’s even fun to say… Continue Reading →
You Don’t Have to Act Crazy Anymore (by Hafiz) You don’t have to act crazy anymore, We all know you were good at that. Now retire, my dear, From all that hard work you do Of bringing pain to your… Continue Reading →