Vacation and Spiritual Development

I took this title from Paul Martin's beautiful book - "Original Faith"

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Engaging in a vacation has positive effects on our spiritual development. It sharpens our perspective - Paul said.

A vacation is a continuing aid in making distinctions about what is and is not worthwhile in our motivation and behavior.

Having a vacation can also help us to maintain sanity.

Engaging in a vacation can help bring us into a new sense and idea of ourselfves. A vacation can be a means of growing nearer to the only One.

Original Faith - from Chapter 6, The Nature of Work,

by Paul Martin, 2008.

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I need a vacation. I'll be back in a month. While I'm gone I'd like to invite you to visit the beautiful blogsite, created by well-known, great poetess Nasra ... Living in Poetry:

http://livinginpoetry.blogspot.com/

You can find there very interesting Interview with Paul: Paul in Salmon Song.

Nasra:

If you have been given a chance to introduce Paul, explaining to other who is Paul? What would you say about Paul? (In another way can you tell us more about you, the person beyond your writing)?
Paul:
Thank you, Nasra, for beginning with something central to my point of view. I’d like to pick up on that right away – the fact that my primary interest is in what unites people spiritually.

More:

Paul in Salmon Song.

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Original Faith

It's now available online at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, BarnesAndNoble.com, and Target.com and is also available by special order at bookstores (ISBN: 978-1-934611-00-5).
Read here: About Paul

Here is Paul's blog

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I'll be back on my Birthday - 22 December.
Come to my 20th Birthday and remember that I love flowers. Your sweet, supportive visits are always my lovely, beautiful flowers.

See you soon. Be happy!

All Things are Possible Through Prayer and The Healing Power of Poetry

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I love words... New Lady on the blog...

i love words

i love words
words that connected
to my soul
words that are true and real

if i scribble them wisely
if i used them in my little tongue
wisely
cos words are my actions, my gestures
they are the poetic drums of
my every heartbeat
i could say
i have become words of unsaid
of unconditional love
that words of knowledge
could flow on every page
from my soul
the spoken word
that became my hope
that became my gift
as words can preach through
open mouths of people
my heart sings them to the sun
grace them to he moon
oh beautiful words of fulfilling life
when i smile
and scribble
before my shadow
could only breathe
the sigh of humble
i love words, there are my tears
and my silent music
whenever i express my soul
to the sky
without words, i couldn’t be a lovely emotional poem
on that magical paper……..

© Kai C....11/12/2008

This post I dedicate to the special poetess..Princess Kai . I love how she plays with words. She loves words. I love words too. But I'm not poetess.
I made for myself a little colection of her beautiful poems. You can see it here:
My Kai's Poems

If you would like to meet Kai, please, go to her blogsite here:
http://kaispoetry.blogspot.com/

Dear Kai -
I love words too
I love words
words that connected
to my soul
words that are true and real...

my room smells like flowers,
falling petals
oh so colorful
they blooms into
my soul
while words stirred off
flowing down

upon my paper

~
© 2008 Kai C.

http://kaispoetry.blogspot.com/

The Wise Woman

For Inspiration.

The Wise Woman
by Author Unknown

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream.

The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation.

The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.

But, a few days later, he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. "I've been thinking," he said. "I know how valuable this stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me this stone."

Sometimes it's not the wealth you have but what's inside you that others need.

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