Let Thy banner of peace wave always above the strong castle of my soul.
Clarity Magazine, Divine Love
Divine Love, Spiritual Community, Spiritualizing Relationships, Thank You, God
Self-Offering to the Divine
Dear friend, Just at daybreak, April 20, 2015, Swamiji’s casket was carried by devotees to its final resting place beneath the newly completed Moksha Mandir. That same morning, while in seclusion at Ananda’s Meditation Retreat, I awoke from a dream of our choir singing, with so much power and joy, “Christ Is Risen,” from Swami’s Oratorio, Christ Lives. Words and … Read More
Divine Love, Spiritualizing Relationships, Thank You, God
Grateful Service
Dear Friend, What opens the channel through which God’s grace flows into the human heart is, above all, an attitude of giving to the universe, to something larger than one’s little self, to the mystery from which comes all true inspiration. The channel grows more and more open. The giver increasingly finds his fulfillment in the giving, in using what … Read More
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Learn to Behave
The morning after the late-night drinking and poker game, I was abruptly awakened when the cover was jerked from my sodden form. There stood my father looking like an Old Testament prophet: “Rise up, son!” His words came with irresistible authority.
Divine Love, Spirituality and Nature, Thank You, God
The Great Oak
Dear Friend, When we look reverently, into the inner heart of the natural world, we see God’s hand stretching out to us, giving to us, nourishing, inspiring, sustaining, calling us to our true Home in His joy. Divine Mother teaches us the art of giving and receiving, of joyful self-offering and grateful receiving, through Her many guises everywhere in Mother … Read More
Divine Love, Spiritualizing Relationships, Thank You, God
Everything Comes from God
As a small child in the 1940s, I was each year taken by my mother to buy a birthday gift for my father. She would help me make a selection, hand me a dollar to give to the cashier, later wrap the present, and, during the actual presentation, would exclaim, “look, Wally, what little Jimmy has for you!” I was … Read More
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Prayer to Feel God’s Presence
In every heart-throb, every breath, every burst of vital activity, teach me to feel Thy Power.
Clarity Magazine, Divine Love
Affirmation for Overcoming Fear and Worry
God is within and around me, protecting me, so I shall banish the gloom of fear that shuts out His guiding light and makes me stumble into ditches of error.
A Place Called Ananda, Divine Love, Spiritual Growth, Spiritualizing Relationships
Becoming Receptive
A number of years ago, I had the opportunity to visit the home of Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi for the first time. I happened to notice a large picture on their meditation altar of Swami Kriyananda with a garland around it. Having been brought up, spiritually speaking, to feel that our lineage contained strictly Jesus, Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri … Read More
Divine Love, Spiritual Community, Thank You, God
Restoring Durga
A few weeks ago we gathered at an Ananda Village home to offer our blessings to a statue of Divine Mother in Her form as Durga. Durga is a beneficent aspect – she protects her devotees from the misery caused by such dark emotions as selfishness, jealously, prejudice, hatred; she embodies purity and wisdom, and acts to preserve righteousness and … Read More
