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The Fruit of the Spirit Brings Reconciliation

To reconcile means “to cause to coexist in harmony; make or show to be compatible.” If we are to coexist in harmony with each other, we must walk in the Spirit so that we do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. The flesh wants to be in control. This leads to many people being incompatible. But there is a solution: the fruit of the Spirit.

The Ministry of RECONCILIATION

As I was doing research for this article, the following words written by Rev. Brian A. Tillman, chair of the Commission on Religion and Race in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church, leaped off the page as I was reading. “Reconciliation is not something we hold hands and pray for God to do — no Kumbaya. It is work that God has given to us to do.”1 This quote is instructive as we seek to understand what it means to engage in the ministry of reconciliation, particularly against the backdrop of the current global protests against racial injustice. Reconciliation is the work of the church.

PENTECOST Reconciles

I know a man whose family moved to the United States from South Korea when he was elementary school age. He has vivid memories of feeling as if something had been torn away; an abrupt disconnection from the culture he loved and the life that made sense to him. He was replanted in a country, neighborhood, and school where everyone spoke a language he had not mastered. He was harassed and mistreated by the other children because he didn’t look like them.

One Child Fund

Indonesia Children’s Home

Kids can serve their world

Shaun McKinley International Children’s Ministries Director CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES

I JUST WANT TO BE SEEN

Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’” (John 14:5–9 NJKV).

Hope For Tomorrow

Paul Holt Director of Finance and Administration STEWARDSHIP MINISTRIES

Genereal Overseer's Global Address

Bishop Sam N.Clements July 11, 2020

Two Meanings of “the Body Keeps the Score”

THE SOUL OF THERAPY KEVIN ANDERSON, PHD

THE ONE MINUTE, ICY COLD PATH OF AWAKENING

(IF YOU STAY WARM AND DRY, IT WILL TAKE 10 MINUTES)

The Speed of Our Age

NOW THAT WE’VE BEEN forced to stop, it’s easier to see how speed thwarts us. For when we become entranced with how quickly things move, we stop listening to what matters. This is how worry feeds itself, how it fills us with psychic noise.

HEALING FOR THE GUT

JULIE PETERS describes her experience with SIBO and her long journey back to health.

Erin Robinson

S&H editor Ben Nussbaum spoke with Brooklyn-based artist Erin Robinson about the corporate world, digital art, and her evolution as an illustrator.

CB … X?

CBD is widely available, but it’s hardly the only cannabinoid. MELISSA HOWSAM explores what’s next.

E-WELLNESS

From medical appointments to yoga classes, the world has gone virtual— and it’s working. BRANDI-ANN UYEMURA digs into the future of care.

Azim Khamisa, the Tariq Khamisa Foundation

“SUSTAINED GOODWILL creates friendship. Sustained friendship creates trust. Sustained trust creates empathy. Sustained empathy creates compassion. Sustained compassion creates peace,” states Azim Khamisa, articulating his Peace Formula.

HOLISTIC PRACTICES FOR GRIEF

KATHRYN DRURY WAGNER speaks with trauma expert Kathryn Templeton on how to move from immobilization into balance and harmony.

29 Ways to Let it go....Let it ALL go

Maybe you’ve come across one of those bumper stickers that reads Let That #$!% Go, or you’ve seen a T-shirt with the same expression and a serene image of Buddha. But how to let go?

I TEAL YOU

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. The facts: It’s the deadliest gynecological cancer. There is no screening test. Symptoms (if any) are usually vague and easily dismissible, so ovarian cancer often goes undetected in its early stages.

Till we meet again

Gifts of love arrive when least expected

My Pegasus

I’ve found a better name for the golden palomino mare we loved in childhood

her afghan angels

I always wondered what inspired my mother’s colorful creations

Hawkeye

Love made a nest in her own backyard

GUIDING LIGHT

A long, dark drive in the pounding rain... and a gift from the heavens

From Italy to New York

2 flights and 5 angels got me home

dream CATCHER

Even an expert in the field needed celestial help

butterflies free me

Anxious about the future, I asked God to bless my path

After the Hurricane

The little creek I crossed on my way to work became a surging river

A vision to hold onto

In the minutes before the second plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, we couldn’t have imagined an even more tragic scenario

THE HEARTFUL STRATEGIST PART 6

In the previous five articles of this series, RAVI VENKATESAN introduced the Heartful Strategist framework, how our consciousness results in the strategies we adopt, and the choices we make, which in turn have consequences that impact the ecosystem in which we exist. He also explored the concept of thought patterns, and in the last article how past impressions create these tendencies or thought patterns in us. He reviewed the Heartfulness technique of Cleaning, which uses the power of auto suggestion or self-suggestion to clear past impressions and make positive shifts to our thought patterns. In this article he dives specifically into the ideal level of consciousness for a Heartful Strategist.