Spiritually Speaking

Have you ever gone away on a relaxing holiday, only to find you’re overcome by stress soon after returning? Maybe you feel a bit discouraged about finding a way to deal with the level of anxiety in your life.

I’ve taken up walking By which I mean I’m doing a lot of walking, about 20k daily. This isn’t a boast, just that I needed to attend to my physical, emotional, and spiritual health and the time it takes to walk is good for all of these things.

Prayer is a difficult thing to explain.

My bucket list is full. And it is not getting emptied out any too quickly. Unfortunately, no amount of frequent flyer points will help deal with my bucket list dilemma. A bank account full of cash is not going to handle the backlog.

In the Jewish calendar cycle Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur are a time for renewal. Jewish tradition invites us to get our psycho-emotional and spiritual lives together in order to begin the New Year with clarity and liberation.

A popular viral video is making its way around social media.

Trust in God unconditionally. The Strength to resist temptation. Infinite forgiveness. Unity regardless of all our differences. These are beautiful concepts, but also ones that sometimes seem to have lost their position in daily life.

By 2030 it's estimated that close to one in four persons in Canada will at least 65 years old.

It’s that time of year for many of going back to or starting school, college, university, or other learning and training. And there are an abundance of continuing education/lifelong learning programs beginning as well. It’s a season for learning.

Over the years I have had numerous conversations with people about what is and isn’t spiritual. Some tell me they are not spiritual. Some say they don’t know what spiritual means or that the word is too vague and wishy-washy to mean anything at all.