SPIRITUAL LIFE AND BELIEFS I do not really have a defining moment in my life where everything changed and gave up drugs and drinking and turned towards God. However, I do have a moment where I turned to him but it isn’t big and grand. Sometimes I wish this was different, sometimes I wish I had some big grand story but then again. I have been immersed in God’s life for all my entire life and I can’t complain about that. I was born in a very spiritual family with parents who had very clear and strict…

Effects of Procrastination on Our Spiritual Life It seems odd at first, thinking it 's an ironic statement for procrastination to have an effect on our spiritual lives. Intrinsically, we need to first understand that we are actually spirit beings living in a vessel called the body (flesh). As a matter of fact, our spirit is more real than the flesh. This was unbeknownst to me, until I transmogrified to a believer. Taking a brief excursus, lets firstly understand the grammatical meaning of the word…

what is it? Is it getting things totally the way we want it? Who says what perfection is? In our Christian life, God says what perfection is, but if God says what perfection is and he is perfect perfection, how can we as humans make it to that level of perfection? The Bible talks about perfection in many ways. Most of the time it is used in the form of a human’s spiritual maturity. Humans will never reach perfect perfection until they get to heaven. While we are still here on earth, we are…

a new, different dimension since the prayer retreats and talks at the end of last month. God seems even more real and the way that I can pray and relate with him now seems more “relational and personal.” In general I’ve been able to identity as spiritual thirst this nagging feeling that I’ve always had before, of insecurity or of being unsettled. Before, I didn’t really understand or know what to do about this feeling so I would seek distraction or escape – or reassurance in the image of togetherness…

“Effect of maturity indices, post harvest treatments and storage temperature on shelf-life of mango cv. Kesar” Mane Shailendra R.1 and Patel B. N.2 1 Assistant Professor, Ratnai College of Agriculture, Akluj 2 Associate Director of Research, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari 396450, E-mail: shailenrmane@gmail.com ABSTRACT Shelf-life of fruit was significantly enhanced with minimum ripening percentage, higher number of healthy fruit percentage in Kesar mango having sp. gr. < 1.00 (M3) fallowed…

Spiritual maturity has two components: spirituality and maturity. Anyone who has been born of the Spirit can be said to be spiritual but the manifestation of the spiritual life is lived out as we walk by the Spirit and to the measure we are surrendered to His leading. Spirituality encompasses not only our walk in the Spirit but our whole identity in Him. What I mean by our identity in Him is that we live for Christ and in Christ to the point where the self has been obliterated and the only identity…

4MAT Review Nouwen, H. J. M. (1975). Reaching out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life. New York, NY: Doubleday. Summary: In Reaching Out, Henri Nouwen gives out a standard by which we are supposed to live “in the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” He suggests that we need to reach out beyond the tension caused by our lonely, hostile, illusive state.” As our lives fluctuate between poles of stressful and successful existence, our souls are tempted by boredom and yearning for true holiness. Having…

Through the emotional, spiritual, and psychological effects children experience during a divorce, spiritual distress and uncertainty, fears of commitment and abandonment, and disassociation from relationships manifest themselves in these children. Approximately one million children experience a parental divorce every year (Warner et al), experiencing a variety of positive and negative consequences. Since divorce causes the couples’ pain, they may become absorbed with their own problems, though they…

person to get involve in political decision. One of this influences might be spiritual life or how the people relate with a superior force and how that impact in political participation. It is important to have present that when we talk regarding spiritual life is a concept broad than religion, because spiritual life focuses on the belief in a superior force, instead religion focuses on follow a series of norms. Spiritual life might be a factor for political participation for the identification of…

Religion is a spiritual way of life that tells you how to act in this life and ultimately affects life after death. It is something that is completely faith-based because there is no way to prove whether or not it is real. It doesn’t matter what religion you choose to follow; it is imperative to have an understanding of other religions of the world. The knowledge of other religions gives you the understanding needed to not be afraid of the unknown. A great example of this is after 9-11, our country…