Uncensored Heart

The issue of spiritual deception is a most important one for those who seek union with God.  We are engaged in a spiritual struggle in a world that is oriented to deceive us, convincing us that there is not really a struggle.   Without a doubt, the overriding spiritual challenge we all face today is one of misplaced goals based on a limited vision embedded in the norms of our secular society.  What we seem to be seeking is self-satisfaction.  We attend seminars, watch TV shows, surf internet sites, and read books to examine ourselves, but for what purpose?  To discover how to be happy and content with ourselves.  Is this not true?  We are constantly encouraged to examine ourselves, to become our “true” self.  We live in a world where the primary focus is on ourselves and our self-evaluation of our well being. This focus is based in large part on the “simplistic belief that one can be whatever one wishes to be, however one wishes to be it,...

It is Good Friday all across the world. I wanted to simply share a hymn with you all from the Greek Orthodox church and to share it as food for thought.... "Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and to those in the tombs, granting life"   This is the primary hymn in the Orthodox church at midnight mass. One statement that is jam packed with emotion and reason for why Christ was the serpent and still is to many Christians in the world today. I will simply add a request to those that read this to think about the words in the hymn and what you think it means in general and to you.