Marc Alan Schelske

One key in spiritual growth is knowing what you have control over--and it's a loss less than you think. Your Heart is a Garden https://bit.ly/3HFxONY

Are emotions shallow? No. They are messages from our deepest places. They won't just go away if we don't listen.

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Officer!! I need to report a break in. What? No, nothing was stolen. No, nothing was broken. No, I don’t have video. But they left this card in my kitchen table for me to discover when I work up!! Please! You must arrest them.

Good morning.

This is a hard prayer offered by Thurman, but dang. This is the kind of prayer we need more of.

“Kindle thy light within me, that all my darkness may be clearly defined. It is so easy for me to recognize and respond to the darkness in others. Far more conscious am I of the error of others than of my own. The temptation is ever present to compare my strengths with another’s weaknesses- to my own advantage, to my own self-glory. Searchingly, there wells up in my mind the terrible thought: “I thank thee that I am not as other men.”

Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart. New York: Beacon Press, 2023. 121.

Both emotional and spiritual growth are a journey to create space between emotional motivation and response.

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