Lucy's Planet Happiness

Hilliard Creek by Lucy Lopez

To answer a question such as this, I feel it is necessary that we attempt to define what we think prayer is and what/who we think god is. (Even an agnostic who is interested in the subject of prayer would have to have some concept of [...]

Hilliard Creek by Lucy Lopez

The question of forgiving myself and others is one that I have pondered and am pleased that I have :-) The first thing that struck me when I began to give some ‘loving thought’ to this question was in terms of another question:

What [...]

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This ‘dilemma’ reflects such familiar tensions that so many of us feel:

How do we live meaningfully in a world that seems to be preoccupied with external forms of gratification? How do we maintain a healthy balance between what we [...]

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What we experience as anger i.e. the thoughts, feelings and behaviors/reactions that we experience in a particular situation is the result of past experiences, impressions and beliefs. Of these, it is our beliefs that have the greatest influence over our response/reaction to any given situation. While [...]

Sin is the state of ignorance of who we truly are – god made (hu)man. The ‘law’ is the word, the truth of god, of life (and the word was with god and the word was god). When we remain ignorant of who we truly are, we remain in a state of sin.

This fundamental ignorance/sin [...]