There is only one decision that amounts to anything, when your life is done, and you stand before God awaiting your fate. There will be no words spoken because God does not use words but rather the language of love. God is the Word (see John 1:1) and you are standing in front of pure energy. When I think about this possibility, I think of three questions that I believe God will expect me to have answered. 1.What is the purpose of life? (What is God's center?) 2.What is the purpose of my life? (What is your center?) 3.What did you do to make this purpose happen where you live? (How did God's...

How to Facilitate Tabletop Exercises for Adult Religious Education Workshops If you wanted to design and implement a comprehensive adult religious curriculum in your parish or community, here are three steps you must take: 1.Create a series of books that contain ideas that participants can discuss. 2.Create a training program for volunteer facilitators to deliver these ideas and arrange people to learn. 3. Create a workbook participants can use to organize the steps they need to take to share information and learning experiences with each other. Highlights in this book: How to be a successful...

Spiritual Toolkit for Divorced Men Is there life after divorce? Am I a bad person because I divorced? Does God hate me? Am I going to Hell? How can I cope with being alone? If you think this way, you may need spiritual direction and not even know it. Do you have angry feelings towards your former wife, or her family? Do you feel betrayed? These and other feelings are probably all part of one of most depressing and gut-wrenching experiences you will ever have -- divorce. One thing is true -- there are no winners in a divorce. Splitting the money and assets is the easy part. You, your former...

The Struggle to be Spiritual The problem with spirituality is there are so many approaches out there that some think it a waste of time. In this book, Spiritual Apes, our prototypes, Adam and Eve, are faced with the after-effects of the Archetypal or Original Sin as were our ancestors. As a result, we live in an imperfect world, yet we seek continue to discover purpose and find meaning. Unlike our first Homo Sapiens ancestors, we find ourselves free to seek what is meaningful and to make choices about our destiny. How can we survive in any age, much less our own, when nationalism and personal...

Read this if you have lost or are about to lose a family pet. Your grieving is real, your loss painful, your feelings genuine. Be comforted One of those things we would rather not think about is the loss of a pet. Like the loss of a mother or father, brother or sister, a pet is family too. Sometimes, we have deeper feelings about our pet than we do our own kin. Is it bad? I don't know. Our feelings are real and should be taken seriously. These gentle, reflective thoughts look at the death of a beloved animal in terms of reflections on your own spiritual life. How we deal with our pets...

Our Struggle to be Spiritual The problem with spirituality is there are so many approaches out there that some think it a waste of time. In this book, Spiritual Apes, our prototypes, Adam and Eve, are faced with the after-effects of the Archetypal or Original Sin as were our ancestors. As a result, we live in an imperfect world, yet we seek continue to discover purpose and find meaning. Unlike our first Homo Sapiens ancestors, we find ourselves free to seek what is meaningful and to make choices about our destiny. How can we survive in any age, much less our own, when nationalism and personal...

Divorce is one of those great unknown cliffs over which self-proclaimed leapers contemplate jumping. It is the great darkness, the fogginess of insecurity, the ultimate icon of respectability that must not be broken. Then why do lots of people seem to be breaking it? Are they bad persons? I don't think so. This is not a book about how to divorce, but rather, once you have made that decision, how to regain a spiritual perspective in your continuing journey of life. Life is too short for you to waste it on hatred, jealousy, anger, lust, drinking, or envy towards anyone. When you are angry, and...

Have you just lost a spouse or loved one? Are you frustrated because you are not in control, and those relationships that you cherished are no more? Is each day meaningless without your partner? Are you angry because you think God took your loved one away from you? Are you afraid? God may be answering your prayers but you may not be able to receive the message. In communicating with God, whatever is received by you is received according to your disposition, not God's. If you are spiritually depressed, you may not be able to pick up on what God has to say to you. If you are filled with hatred,...