Aug 29, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
My work as a chaplain at Toronto General Hospital included caring for those waiting for heart transplants. Some waited for many months. Everything that they did or ate was recorded, even the number of grapes because they contain fluid and fluid intake had to be...
Aug 20, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
Feeling the presence of God is emotional, ethereal, ephemeral. We cannot touch that feeling. It is through symbols and rituals that we can transform an emotional feeling into a physical one. All of those feelings are brought together when donning the prayer...
Aug 2, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel writes about sacred time –the Sabbath. His book is uplifting. His prose speaks to the heart and soul. Rabbi Heschel teaches us that things are not sacred in the same way that time is sacred. He exhorts us to remember the Sabbath. It is a...
Jul 30, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
The first time I was asked that question, I was in the middle of my residency in clinical pastoral education at Toronto Hospital. I think that was the first time I ever put thought to the feeling. I believe in God because I can’t imagine life without that belief....
Jul 2, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
True atonement comes only at the end of life when our energies unite. The melting of me with the energy of the world is becoming at one with the universe. This is my soul joining with the souls of others and with God, the infinite energy. Our desire for atonement...
Jun 30, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
There is no shortcut to Spirituality. St. Augustine wrote that Spirituality is found through meditation, contemplation and personal reflection and that it is through the love of another person that we experience God because human love has divine love running...
