Spirit is Talking to You: True Stories of Signs, Wonders, Inspiration, Love and Connection. Joan Doyle
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Название: Spirit is Talking to You: True Stories of Signs, Wonders, Inspiration, Love and Connection
Автор: Joan Doyle
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Эзотерика
isbn: 9781771430012
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CCB Publishing
British Columbia, Canada
To my parents John and Jane Doyle
In gratitude for your unconditional and eternal love
To my husband Justin Elledge
Thank you for your vision, love and light
And for sharing them with me.
Contributing Authors
I would like to acknowledge individual authors for permission to print the following material contained in this book.
Amanda Sargenti
Amy Lloyd
Arthur Barrett
Barbara Schiffman
Carrie McConkey-Herrera
Christy Shelton
Chrystine Julian
Dean Regan
Dearbhla Egan
Gertrude Anne Doyle
Kristina Keefer
Jon Lopez
Joseph Doyle
Julie Penman Livesey
Justin Elledge
Laurie St. Clare
Mary Hylan
Robert Duffy
Sabrina Johnson
Sandra Maclean
Sandi Duncan
Sandra Phillips
Sean M. Kelly
S. Kay
Tom Rebold
Information about the contributing authors is included at the end of this book. I would like to thank each of them for adding their colorful experiences to the rainbow expression of the deep and abiding love that created and inspires us all.
A special thanks goes to Mary Hylan, to Dr. Mark Vierra, the beautiful core of Practitioners at North Hollywood Church of Religious Science and my grammar teacher, Sr. Claude!
Spirit is at work in the world today.
Spirit is at work in my world today.
Spirit is at work in me today.
The storms of the world swirl gently around me.
I am safe and secure always.
Amen!
Joseph Seoane
Introduction - A Friendly Universe
You are the spiritual light that cannot fail.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
As a licensed spiritual counselor, I often get a quizzical response on the rare occasion I choose to explain what I do, when meeting a stranger at a party. “Oh,” one person commented, “I guess Oprah made Spirit popular!” It amuses and saddens me as I acknowledge that despite the proliferation of religions in the world, our everyday reality is most often kept separate from what is considered sacred. It seems the pendulum has swung from blind faith to scientific thinking. To think that logic and rational thought are preferable to religious beliefs is very understandable when we look at the violence that has and still does result from religious fanaticism. But there is a middle ground.
Between measurable facts and organized religion is a very real living Spirit. We recognize this as a force that expresses itself diversely and to varying degrees through each and every living thing. When I speak of my ninety one-year-old mother, I say her spirit is strong even as her body is failing. Spirit is the life force unchanged, despite age or infirmity. Spirit essence can never be lost, damaged, diminished or destroyed. Inventiveness, hope, joy, love, abundance and creativity are to name but a few of its enduring qualities. What Spirit is, we are. Spirit is expansive, but given our free will we have the freedom to constrict its expression through us or to allow it to flow freely and enhance our life experience.
We know we are in the flow of this living Spirit when we feel generous and enthusiastic, or we feel centered and at peace. We sense all manner of possibilities. We also know when we are hindering this source energy if we feel stuck, fearful, critical, resentful СКАЧАТЬ