The Gift of Community

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    Authenticity: From “Me” to “Who?”

      Children don’t know anything but transparency and authenticity. Their freedom to be themselves is quite compelling.  It is only later that they begin to adapt to the social pressures in this fallen world. I remember in my wise four-year-old mind becoming aware that the thoughts coming in the form of ideas or conversation with others were actually coming from me.  I remember the awe I would feel when I would whisper to myself, “I am Me.”  Allowing the thought to reach into my very soul, I was overwhelmed with a sense of my own identity, and I marveled at this reality. But when a child is slowly growing through…

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    Praise The Lord, the Drought is Over!

    We were in the final day of our first Spiritual Dynamics Conference. Donald Mostrom, author from New England, had come to share his life with us.   We were soaked by  a sudden downpour as we approached  the barn where we had set up old desk chairs, a podium,  a small sound system   scrounged from friends.   It had been raining and now it was pouring rain.  I was quite discouraged as I walked with our guest who was ready to deliver his last message of the weekend. However, Dr. Mostrom was exhilarated.  “Praise the Lord,” he shouted as we walked up the hill to the barn that Sunday morning,…