The Currents of Grace

As a bird in flight takes advantage of the air currents, so try to ride on the currents of grace. Be sensitive to them, for they will carry you to success in everything. Success is not always the outcome of stress: Listen for whispered guidance in your soul.

Love God

Without love, spiritual progress is like walking with crutches. It is slow work and hard work indeed.

Be a Good Gardner of Life

When cultivating your garden of life, take care lest pride produce noxious weeds to choke and kill the wholesome plants of devotion, kindness, and self control. The world is like a symphony, God is the great conductor Who alone can bring music out of everything.

Class 19: Christ Is Risen! Life & Teachings of Jesus

Resurrection is the culmination of Jesus’ mission, proving his transcendence over death and all material bondage. Jesus appears before many of his disciples, including the twelve apostles. He walks with them, talks with them, and helps them to see him in light of his truest identity – the Infinite Christ. Next, we travel Tabga, where Jesus appeared to Peter and … Read More

Class 18: Life & Teachings of Jesus – Resurrection

Jesus is brought down from the cross, his body anointed and wrapped on a nearby rock before being laid to rest in tomb. Journey to the heart of the pilgrimage to Israel as Asha takes us to the Holy Sepulcher, the site of Jesus’ triumphal resurrection. Before that fated hour, however, what must the disciples have gone through? How did … Read More

Class 16: Via Dolorosa, Part 1 – Life & Teachings of Jesus

Here, Christ teaches not with words, but through the dramatic tapestry of his own life’s drama. Journey through the first 7 Stations of the Cross with Asha as Jesus bears his cross on the journey to Golgotha. From a worldly perspective this walk seems a grim reminder of the harshness of our reality, even calling it the walkway of sorrow. … Read More

Two Sorts of Happiness

The exhilaration of excitement stirs the mind but also befuddles it. Seek that exhilaration which accompanies calm upliftment, to the heart especially. People under the influence of excitement jump up and down, urged by upward spurts of energy in the spine. Every leap upward, however, is followed by a descent. Only heartfelt aspiration can take the mind soaring at last … Read More

Class 15: Thy Will Be Done – Life & Teachings of Jesus

Jesus, betrayed, is arrested and brought before the Sanhedrin. Through mocking, beating, and lying, they attempt to force Jesus to admit to heresy, but Jesus is unmoved. Remaining completely detached and in his inner dignity, Jesus gives an eternal answer to all suffering, “You would have no authority over me unless it had given you from above,” with this single … Read More

Class 14: Gethsemane – Life & Teachings of Jesus

Join Jesus and his disciples at the table of the last supper. Hear as Jesus explains who will betray him, even blessing Judas with his own hand before sending him on his way. In the moments that follow, Jesus tenderly expresses deep spiritual teachings to his remaining apostles, many sayings and phrases we’ve all heard, but now with the explanation … Read More