Credit: stjohns.org To the Source, I pray that you be with us all in times of uncertainty. To life, I pray that in time, you reveal your greatest secrets. To the planet, I pray that you find peace, healing and stability. For humanity, I pray that we see the light in the darkness and come […]
Maureen Gilbert: Why the Power of Prayer Is Real & You Can’t Just Use It To “Get Stuff”
I’ve been a spiritual seeker for as long as I can remember, fascinated with the mystical, esoteric and occult.For most of my life I pursued a spiritual practice much like I pursued most of my life — in a type-A manner determined to crack the code and excel. I was convinced that if I read […]
The Prayer of St. Francis Set the Bar for Peacefulness
Reposted from Oct. 10, 2012. The Prayer of St. Francis Set the Bar for Peacefulness Achieving World Peace Now!, Oct. 9, 2012 The Prayer of St. Francis Set the Bar for Peacefulness St. Francis, who reincarnated as Mohandas Gandhi according to his own testimony, (1) set the bar for peacefulness as a divine quality – in both […]
Principles of Ritual: Meaning, Value, and Uses
In the early phases of my training as a devotee of a pagan path; on my way through the years to become an initiated and fully trained autonomous priestess, I was given many rituals. These rituals were very beautiful to me and they helped me to integrate the tools I needed to manage my unruly […]