How might indifference sabotage one’s spiritual growth and/or recovery?
Featured Comments Indifference ::: “I lost my faith when I was 18 when a pastor told me I was going to hell. I figured I didn’t need to go to church if I was going to hell anyway. The restoration of my faith came slowly over more than 20 years. I recognize my part in how ans why I walked away from my Higher Power. More than that, though, I recognize the strength of my Higher Power that brought me back again. Reconnecting with my Higher Power was a sweet and unforeseen journey. Today, I know gratitude, joy, and the abundance that has favored me. Thanks, HP!” – Margot E.
Everything Counts (in large amounts) -remastered – Depeche Mode (3:59)
Reiki Meditation to Find One’s Life Path (8:49)
Learning by Doing
by Howard Nemerov
They’re taking down a tree at the front door,
The power saw is snarling at some nerves,
Whining at others.
Now and then it grunts,
And sawdust falls like snow or a drift of seeds.
Rotten, they tell us, at the fork, and one
Big wind would bring it down.
So what they do
They do, as usual, to do us good.
Whatever cannot carry its own weight
Has got to go, and so on; you expect
To hear them talking next about survival
And the values of a free society.
For in the explanations people give
On these occasions there is generally some
Mean-spirited moral point, and everyone
Privately wonders if his neighbors plan
To saw him up before he falls on them.
Maybe a hundred years in sun and shower
Dismantled in a morning and let down
Out of itself a finger at a time
And then an arm, and so down to the trunk,
Until there’s nothing left to hold on to
Or snub the splintery holding rope around,
And where those big green divagations were
So loftily with shadows interleaved
The absent-minded blue rains in on us.
Now that they’ve got it sectioned on the ground
It looks as though somebody made a plain
Error in diagnosis, for the wood
Looks sweet and sound throughout.
You couldn’t know,
Of course, until you took it down.
That’s what
Experts are for, and these experts stand round
The giant pieces of tree as though expecting
An instruction booklet from the factory
Before they try to put it back together.
Anyhow, there it isn’t, on the ground.
Next come the tractor and the crowbar crew
To extirpate what’s left and fill the grave.
Maybe tomorrow grass seed will be sown.
There’s some mean-spirited moral point in that
As well: you learn to bury your mistakes,
Though for a while at dusk the darkening air
Will be with many shadows interleaved,
And pierced with a bewilderment of birds.
Indiference reminds me to being lazy about nurturing my spirit. When I get carried in the not attending meetings regularly Im indiferent to being of service.
Good morning everyone + Happy Sunday. Today is the Day of Pentecost in the church. This is where the apostles became filled with the Holy Spirit of God and went forth, empowered to do their tasks. Today, I ask God to fill all the places + people I need, including people who, like me, can feel drained at times. I ask God to fill you too. Blessings. BB
Spiritual growth and recovery is like a garden that requires constant care and feeding. Otherwise it just goes to the weeds. I know this from personal experience. I spent most of my life reading about spiritual principles but I never had a spiritual practice. I was keeping the plants alive but the weeds were still taking over.
Rekindling joy.. hmmm the first thing that comes to mind is to walk by faith and not by sight. I guess to me that means that feelings should not interfere with faith, keep in prayer and meditation no matter what.
I didn’t make it to a meeting tonite. I think that’s part the part of me saying my spiritual recovery doesn’t need to be fed.
I lost my faith when I was 18 when a pastor told me I was going to hell. I figured I didn’t need to go to church if I was going to hell anyway. The restoration of my faith came slowly over more than 20 years. I recognize my part in how ans why I walked away from my Higher Power. More than that, though, I recognize the strength of my Higher Power that brought me back again. Reconnecting with my Higher Power was a sweet and unforeseen journey. Today, I know gratitude, joy, and the abundance that has favored me. Thanks, HP!