What are heavenly treasures?
The treasures the ancient people were desperate to seek and find were not something worth a lot of money or something that would grant them supernatural ability. Instead, they may have sought hope…
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The Unknowable God
All statements, descriptions, and illustrations regarding God are never about the true God, but only about how humans perceive, experience, and thus understand God. Consequently, what we call “theology” is not the study of God, but mere collections of human articulations on what we perceive and believe as God.
Swedenborg’s Service to the People
What made Swedenborg infamous to the point that his name was rarely mentioned in the history of science or religion was that he claimed to have spiritual visions from God, and further to have God-granted ability to communicate with angels and spirits in the spiritual realm. However, his main motivation to write and self-publish his prolific works was a sense of calling and service to people.
What does it mean to be useful?
Humans arrogantly play the role of the ultimate judge in deciding the values and usefulness of all things and matters. But the truth is that humans are also just a part of nature! The role of humans is not to be the judges, but to be contributors to the web of life within which they are born, live, and die.
What is wisdom?
While it may be noble and courageous to attempt to change or improve one’s innate condition and abilities, the truth is that God endowed us with an ability to cultivate happiness and joy within the conditions and abilities with which we are born and living!
A Day to Let Go
Mistakes and errors that we have made are problematic not just because they happened, but because of how our mind carries and reacts to them. And, if we carry them around long enough, they might become a spiritual blockage between God and us.
The Favor of God
In this story of angels and shepherds, there is a phrase, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!” But who, exactly, does God favor?
God’s Abounding Gift
In John 13, Jesus teaches, “Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” Jesus loved the disciples not because of their position, wealth, or what they could do for him, but simply because of their humanity itself and for their joyful life. This is the love that Jesus came to teach us…
Finding Heavenly Joy
Arguably, the very reason for the Divine Incarnation is that God desired to share the joy of God with all humans. The only challenge is, are we willing to accept it?
How do we find peace?
One key point in cultivating peace may be found in the word “justice.” Justice is often mentioned in the Old Testament as an attribute of God in the way that God always judges with fairness and mercy. So how would a human being cultivate justice?