Effective Spirituality

Here we discuss the ways and means of developing effective and functional relationships with the Divine. Have you ever felt spiritually abandoned? Does obtaining faith in God seem like a lost cause? Do your most heart felt prayers get no response? Let's look at why some people get in touch with the divine and others do not. If you already feel God working in your life; great! Here we will look at ways to increase that relationship with the divine.

Love

Love cares.

Loves good.

Love forgives.

Love comforts.

Love welcomes.

Love brings peace.

Love listens carefully.

Love accepts life’s flow.

Love isn’t so sure it knows.

Love seeks nothing for itself.

Love nurtures and offers solace.

Love sacrifices self to achieve peace. 

Loves see humor in its flaws and faults.

Love quietly lets emotional  storms pass.

Love releases, empowers and encourages.

Love ignores every obstacle to manifest itself.

Love rejoices in truth; it hides no dark secrets.

Love is noble, needs nothing; offers everything. 

Love seeks to build unity and achieve harmony.

Love appreciates every effort to accomplish good.

Love is quick to apologize; it has no ego to defend. 

Love advises, “Follow your heart, Listen to the Spirit.”

Love divine wants a one on one relationship with you.  

Love resolves issues as they appear through reasoning. 

Love hears one out, then offers guidance and suggestions. 

Love is eager to share truth, but will gage the listener’s readiness.

Love reassures with real caring when a relationship has to be altered.

Love never severs a relationship, but seeks to repair and strengthen them. 

Love reassures with acts of real caring when a relationship has to be altered.

Love may use actions like divorce as a way to alter and improve a relationship. 

Love doesn’t just tolerate, it embraces differences and understands them as natural.

Love thrives on, and delights in, dissimilarity; it requires them to grow, to stretch its reach. 

Love accepts all spiritual, religious, political, cultural, linguistic, moral, and gender differences.

Love divine or rapture is being filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit to overwhelming our soul.

With the sole exception of Jesus, who earned the right by dying as a sacrifice for us on the cross:

Love doesn’t say, “Follow us!  Trust us!  Obey us!” These are words of those who seek control.

Love avoids acts of rejection and intolerance. Such feelings are spiritually immature; juvenile.

Love doesn’t use religious or worldly authority to bring pain to the lives under that authority.

Love doesn’t reject, bully or ostracize people because they act, think and believe differently.

Love doesn’t have hubris, isn’t haughty or so sure of itself that it damages relationships.

Love doesn’t seek to accumulate except to share, be lifted up except to lift up others.

Love doesn’t use the coercive control techniques of dictators like Hitler, or Mussolini.

Love doesn’t nurture fear or throw up barriers to understanding and acceptance.

Love doesn’t take joy in division, but looks for opportunity to unite.

Love doesn’t seek conflict or pick a fight; but avoids conflict 

Love doesn’t make demands or seek to compel or coerce.

Love isn’t blind to its own flaws and faults.

Love doesn’t contain, control, or criticize.

Love doesn’t crave attention. 

Love isn’t impatient

Miracles frequently accompany the experience of God’s love.  

Miracles are simply God’s extension of His love for us.  

Love is the real miracle.