Communion
The cultural story of Humans is that God has an agenda. (Need Exists) The outcome of life is in doubt. (Failure Exists) You are separate from God. (Disunity Exists) There is not enough. (Insufficiency Exists) There is something you have to do. (Requirement Exists) If you do not do it, you will be punished. (Judgment Exists) The punishment is everla
... See moreNeale Donald Walsch • Communion with God (Conversations with God Series)
Why did she endure such treatment? She had come to look to men for the kind of deep affirmation and acceptance that only God can provide. As a result, she became a slave to love.
Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
Addiction, then, displaces and supplants God’s love as the source and object of our deepest true desire. It is, as one modern spiritual writer has called it, a “counterfeit of religious presence.”
Gerald G. May MD • Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
The cultural emphasis on endless consumption deflects attention from spiritual hunger. We are endlessly bombarded by messages telling us that our every need can be satisfied by material increase. Artist Barbara Kruger created a work proclaiming “I shop therefore I am” to show the way consumerism has taken over mass consciousness, making people thin
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