Category Archives: Faith

Living a deeper life Part 6: Strive to keep in step with the Spirit and find peace What does it mean to be a fully God-directed person? We do not decry the necessity of pursuing our worldly path. We have to live in the world, and sustaining ourselves can be a tremendous struggle. How fortunateContinue reading “Living a deeper life. Part 6”

Living a deeper life Part 5: Transcendence and immanence: the call beyond and the discovery within In the greater freedom that I now have, I want to focus on the most important goals. What do I really want to achieve? I acknowledge that this is so much easier when I feel I have achieved myContinue reading “Living a deeper life. Part 5”

Living a deeper life Part 4: Let the wind fill your sails I realise (very late on in life) that I am a habitual thinker. I have a stock of favourite things to think about. Very early in the morning, they will spark into life, and I will pick one or the other of themContinue reading “Living a deeper life. Part 4”

Living a deeper life Part 3: Don’t just follow the old grooves; chart your course as though free to rove anywhere over the ocean, and pursue your way vigorously I recognise that I am a responsive person. There are many good features to this: it helps to make me considerate and kind, to notice whatContinue reading “Living a deeper life. Part 3”

Living a deeper life Part 2: Joyful awareness in attention to what we’re doing A key possibility arises from the fact that I am someone who looks up from my book often. What do I mean by this? For many years, while on holiday, one of my greatest treats is to have, say, a wholeContinue reading “Living a deeper life. Part 2”

(In 7 parts) Living a deeper life Part 1: What do I really want to do with my life? It is well-said that life is something that happens when you’re too busy to notice. Therefore, those glorious moments of “recollection of our senses”, when we become acutely aware of our state of life, are bothContinue reading “Living a deeper life. Part 1”

True freedom Part 7: I can never have it, yet I have it, until I have it There are, no doubt, other elements to incorporate with the three-fold awareness. No-one is born with this awareness; no-one comes to this awareness without having first, to some degree, going astray from the way they now come toContinue reading “True freedom. Part 7”

True freedom Part 6: Three-fold harmony What might this freedom entail? I think the essence of it is finding harmony between desires, actions and conscience. If I have desires to do actions but I don’t do them, I have tension and unfulfillment, and so am not free. This is so on both the negative andContinue reading “True freedom. Part 6”

True freedom Part 5: If you love someone, pleasing them is not surrendering your freedom but fulfilling it So far, we have considered the atheistic appeal of freedom from God, and some answers that a believer would give. However, it is still necessary for the believer to go further and outline what true freedom mightContinue reading “True freedom. Part 5”

True freedom Part 4: We have paid a high price: we wanted joyful liberation and created a horrible mess The second freedom the atheist valued was to choose their own moral code. In response, the first thing I note is that claiming the freedom to choose your own moral code very easily becomes a slipperyContinue reading “True freedom. Part 4”