When Being Is Divorced From

The First Step In Faith Is To Stop Thinking About God At The Time Of Prayer.-

Lord, When I Feel That What I'm Doing Is Insignificant And Unimportant, Help Me To Remember That Everything I Do Is Significant And Important In Your Eyes, Because You Love Me And You Put Me Here, And No One Else Can Do What I Am Doing In Exactly The Way I Do It.

Hope Your Wildest Hopes, Dream Your Maddest Dreams, Imagine Your Most Fantastic Fantasies. Where Your Hopes And Your Dreams And Your Imagination Leave Off, The Love Of My Heavenly Father Only Begins.

If We Maintain The Open-mindedness Of Children, We Challenge Fixed Ideas And Established Structures, Including Our Own. We Listen To People In Other Denominations And Religions. We Don't Find Demons In Those With Whom We Disagree. We Don't Cozy Up To People Who Mouth Our Jargon. If We Are Open, We Rarely Resort To Either-or: Either Creation Or Evolution, Liberty Or Law, Sacred Or Secular, Beethoven Or Madonna. We Focus On Both-and, Fully Aware That God's Truth Cannot Be Imprisoned In A Small Definition.

Genuine Self-acceptance Is Not Derived From The Power Of Positive Thinking, Mind Games Or Pop Psychology. It Is An Act Of Faith In The God Of Grace.