Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Presence

During my daily activities I regularly encounter a loving, creative and very powerful force which I have come to know as God. I sense this force, presence or power while meditating, doing my healing work, working in the garden and exercising. It’s always there and all around us - we just have to be open to it, a wonderful thing. As Elaine Pagels says "Yet I sometimes encountered, in churches and elsewhere—in the presence of a venerable Buddhist monk, in the cantor’s singing at a bar mitzvah, and on mountain hikes—something compelling, powerful, even terrifying that I could not ignore, and I had come to see that, besides belief, Christianity involves practice—and paths toward transformation."