Miracle Of A Brother’s Song

  December 23, 2012 - 2:24 pm |
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  Received via email, and apparently true: Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3 year old son, Michael, prepare for a new sibling. They found out that the new baby was going to be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael sang to his new sister in Mommy’s tummy. He was building a bond of love with his little sister before he even met her. The pregnancy progressed normally for Karen, an active member of the Panther Creek United Methodist … Continue reading →

The heart must be empty in order to receive the knowledge of God.

  November 30, 2012 - 11:22 am |
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  “The heart must be empty in order to receive the knowledge of God.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan “It is the receptivity of our heart and the passivity of our mind, it is the eagerness, the thirst and hunger after truth, it is the direction of our whole life to that Ideal from who all light and truth come, that alone can bring us truth and the knowledge of God.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan But then the question comes: how do we open our hearts and minds? Step by step, we require different things. Sometimes pain, sometimes hope, sometimes worldly … Continue reading →