“Keeping a prayer diary is well worth the trouble and time it takes, because it is so easy to lose sight of any overall pattern in one’s prayer life without it,” writes Tom Harpur in Prayer: The Hidden Fire: Journal and Companion Guide. “You so easily forget or overlook the way in which prayer has indeed been answered or, quite often, not answered as we’d hoped and yet in a more marvelous way still!”
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Here are a few differences between prayer journals and spiritual diaries, plus a few reasons keeping track of prayers and your spiritual life is a good thing to do… Continue reading ‘Prayer Journals and Spiritual Diaries – What’s the Difference?’ »
Most of us were not raised to honor our spiritual gifts and psychic abilities. They were often discounted by adults and squashed by naysayers. These natural abilities don’t go away though; they lie dormant waiting to be cultivated.
Christian or not – how do you love God with all your heart? These tips for loving God are based on my four decades of loving God, leaving God, returning to God, and falling in love with God all over again…
Many people want to have compassion for others, but they get blocked by fear, anger, or judgment. Viewing others as bad, wrong, or undeserving only serves to close the heart and dampen the soul.
One of my readers asked for Christian prayers for couples, so I dug into my heart and soul – and my prayer books – and came up with five ways to approach God together…
Developing a daily spiritual practice takes time and dedication. At first it may feel forced or uncomfortable, but overtime it will become the foundation for your spiritual life.
Research on how prayer helps women cope with domestic violence reveals the benefits of praying, and how prayer can be harmful. Praying helps abused women stay strong, faithful, and spiritual…but it can also keep them stuck in an unhealthy relationship.
. And call a distress line or violence hotline — there are people who want to help you! You’re also welcome to comment below — but I strongly encourage you to get in-person help.
When we give from the heart, instead of from guilt or duty, we offer joy and love and we experience this in return. With an open heart we discover how to be generous with every word, thought and action. Debbie Macomber, author of 
Wayne Dyer’s tips for increasing your energy levels are too good to keep to myself! We listened to The Power of Intention on a Vancouver-Edmonton road trip recently; my husband loved Wayne Dyer’s tips so much, he plans to listen to the audiobook regularly.
When we set spiritual goals for the New Year we create a foundation for material goals to blossom. If we focus solely on the external – the exercise program, the weight loss, the financial plans, the career success – we end up feeling empty, even if we do achieve them. When we place our attention on the essence of these objectives, the true reason we want to achieve them, we feel whole and balanced. From this place it becomes much easer to 
