Roreligion Relationship
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by Wayne Holmes
and middle portions of the island are full of cozy beach cottages and inviting beachfront rentals. High season is January-March. You’re often better off visiting April-May or September-October when prices are lower and the weather is beautiful. But for me, I will go there anytime I can! My Zen moments were, of course, at our spa day, but also the evening sunsets over the ocean. It’s tradition that everyone comes out to the beach with a drink in hand to celebrate another day watching the gorgeous sun set on the ocean’s horizon. This is pure paradise! As always, I’m sending you much light, love and Zen journeys! In gratitude, Sage About the Author: Sage Woman is an Intuitive and Spiritual Life Coach. Contact her to schedule an individual session with her. Her passion is to assist you in empowering and co-creating the life you desire with tools and practical applications along with intuitive messages to guide your journey. For more information, contact her at 512-2342075, or email sagewomen61@gmail.com.
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At its best, religion is a relationship with The Divine, but problems occur when rules take precedent over our relationship. When that happens we discover guilt, shame, judgment, and other base emotions can distract us from our main focus. We can have both a religious belief and a relationship, but if religion interferes with relationship, then the relationship must come first. True morality means we do the right thing regardless of what we are told even if the one doing the telling claims to have divine insight into our personal lives. Without discerning for ourselves if what we are told is right, and without trusting the divine guidance within our hearts, blind obedience can lead us astray. When we get caught up in the beliefs of a religion or the teachings of a religious leader regardless of what our hearts tell us, then we risk losing the path of Love and Light. I have lived under both paradigms, and I know having a relationship takes more effort, more courage, and more love. I also know that simply doing what I’m told, following the leader, and not making waves is a simpler way to live, but for me, it was not as fulfilling as taking responsibility for my own relationship. We can have religion and a relationship, but when religion would take us in the wrong direction, it is our relationship with The Divine, or our spirituality, that will keep us from following the Pied Piper to our doom.
About the Author: Pastor Wayne Holmes is an ordained minister with Divinity Spiritual Church and also Revelation Spiritual Church. He is the co-founder of Religious Recovery, an organization dedicated to healing wounds inflicted by religion or the religious. He is not opposed to religion, but
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