For today's Saturday Spiritual Supplement, I'm suggesting we do a little art therapy. I came across this little art therapy exercise. I'm not much into this kind of thing but this one spoke to me. Exercise: What one (ONE!) road sign would you choose for yourself for...
I drew this cartoon a couple of years ago. But it so aptly pictures what happens on TLS all the time. This is why I think you guys are amazing: you are in touch with your struggle you have the courage to share you patiently listen you graciously offer support Do you...
I've read this, and I've experienced this to be true. Often the traumas we experience are so difficult and even so impossible to deal with that we allow them to freeze over. As a result, our traumas with all the associated memories and pains are no longer felt. If we...
Recently i had a brawl with a friend of mine, i went visiting her for the weekend but while there i kind of felt like i was being taken for granted in one way or the other. She had had a root canal and i knew she was in pain and all wasnt fine but she was well. She...
Wouldn't it be lovely if we could suddenly live our lives with no anxiety at all and no ambiguity? We would fulfill the preachers' cry that demands we must not worry and that we should not doubt, that we should always be at peace and clear on what is true and not...
One of the biggest problems with religion is that it focuses on the fruit rather than the root. Remember the parable Jesus told about the gardner who found the tree that wasn't bearing any fruit and he was going to dig it up and burn it? The owner said to dig around...
Two years ago my husband and I moved from Pittsburgh, PA to a small coastal town in North Carolina. I will call it Mayberry, USA. We had found this 2 traffic light village from driving through it on our yearly vacations to a nearby resort. The idea of living the...
Welcome to The Lasting Supper! Welcome to The Lasting Supper where you can help yourself! I'm so glad you decided to join us. We are a very active community with over 300 members so far. The community itself provides so many resources as well as mutual support for...
(I'm never sure how to cross-post from my blog to here. Bear with me as I try something a bit different.) I’ve been reading a Brian McLaren book, Church On The Other Side. McLaren is a fairly progressive Christian, keen to help church-goers and churches to stop...
This is a mini-memoir describing and focusing on the process, deconstruction and remaining journey of my religious and spiritual life as I have experienced it in the 51 years I have inhabited this planet. This life of mine is a meandering and conflicting story, a sort...
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