How to Be an Awesome Human Being

I always thought that babies should come with operating instructions and that parents-to-be should be required to pass a parenting test. After all, a license is required to drive a car. Surely a course in the basics of taking care of a baby's…

Understanding: The Third Law of Spirit

  Anytime you allow anything or anyone outside yourself to cause you to choose hurt and to be disturbed inside yourself, then you are being shown how you can strengthen your understanding of the first and second laws of Spirit, to accept…

Love: The Fourth Law of Spirit

"God is love. This means that even the greatest source of negativity is love. Ultimately, you must come face-to-face with that and recognize that whatever negativity presents itself is still of the true nature of God, which is love." -- John…

No Plans for the Holidays? How To Enjoy Them Anyway

It's very easy to fall into a "poor me, nobody loves me, I'm going to go eat worms" state of mind when you don't have any invitations for the holidays. Alternatively, you could choose to enjoy your holidays anyway. It's all in how you see it…

Do You Need to Lighten Up Your Life?

Choose to take the Light road, the Light option, to relate to whatever is going on in a Light way so you can enjoy yourself and have fun while you go through it. You can laugh or you can cry. You can enjoy yourself or you can suffer. Happiness…

How Well Do You Face the Trials and Tribulations of Your Life?

Have you noticed that it isn't so much what happens to you that determines the quality of your life, but rather how well you deal with your life? It's about what goes on inside of you that matters far more than how you measure up to some external…

The Importance of Awakening Your Inner Spiritual Authority

I was raised Catholic by a Catholic mother and a Lutheran father and lived in a community where I had a lot of Jewish friends. That was my world view as far as religion was concerned: Catholic, Protestant and Jewish until my mother gave me a…

Do You Know How Powerful Your Thoughts Are?

In the theater of one's mind is a multi-dimensional consciousness in which our thoughts point our attention in a particular direction. Neuroscientists have discovered that repetitive thoughts form neural pathways as neurons that fire together…

Teens Addicted to Social Media

I attended an interview with Nancy Jo Sales about her book American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, at the 2016 Woodstock Writers' Festival. Her research, based on conversations with over 200 teen girls from across the…

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