The Spirit Guide

There is a concept called "raising vibration."  Basically, it takes Einstein's idea that "everything in life is vibration" and applies it to humanity.  The higher your vibration is, the more content, satisfied, and at peace you will be in your physical life. When I first heard about this, I am not gonna lie.  I thought it was baloney.  It seemed to be yet another fad catch phrase meant to make us pay more money for crystals or tea leaves or yoga mats.  But then I started reading about it, researching it, and, ya know?  It really isn't baloney, and we all secretly know these principles to be true. Negativity, worry, fear, anger, and angst all lower our vibration levels.  They literally pull us down.  So, we have to work diligently to raise our vibrations to overcome those negativity draws. How do we do that? There are some really great articles by Scientific American  and Chopra  if you want to learn more, and here is my personal list of 5.   Let it Go  Fortu

What is the difference between religion and spirituality?  We often use these terms interchangeably, but I've met a lot of religious people who aren't spiritual, and there are many spiritual people who aren't religious.  I was a religious person at one time.  I no longer identify that way even though religion is, indeed, part of my path.  I consider myself spiritual.   As I mentioned in the welcome video, I am not a denomination basher.  I believe I can walk into any Christian church and find a good message and community.  This isn't about my satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a particular church I attended in the past.  There was never any kind of falling out.  One day I simply looked around and said, hmmm, this isn't me.  This isn't what I think Jesus wants from us.  There are a lot of rules and I don't know where they come from, and why do we spend more on gold chalices than we do on poor children?   One of my hobbies is hiking.  Specifically, I am a se

 Some folks asked if I would create a video to go along with the blog.  This is my attempt.  This channel is not monetized (nor is this blog), and I don't have professional equipment.  Let me know what you think in the comments below!  You may have to hit "click more" at the bottom of the post to then be able to click play.  Seems silly, I know ;p

  God loves us.  Plain and simple.  There isn't any magic involved.  There are no fancy things you have to do or say.  God loves us.  All of us.  God gives us tools to help us find love and be love in the world.   There are scholars that study the three types of love.  I am not one of them.  I just know there are three kinds because I learned that in Sunday school.  There is family love, intimate love, and Godly love.   There is love all around us, but we need to pause to see it, and we need to take opportunities to spread it.  We don't need money or influence to spread love; we simply need to be a creature of love wherever we stand.  That's not always easy on a bad day, but on those days, if we connect to love, we will shelter the storm. God protects us with His white light.  It helps to ask Him for that protection as a reminder to us that He is always protecting us.  Bad things happen all the time but that isn't because God isn't protecting us; there is some lesso

  Welcome to this newest blog adventure.  I've been here many times before...inpsired to write something...faithful for a few days...then off to a new project. I am going to try really hard not to do that this time.  There is so much light and love to push into this world to combat the darkness, and I feel it's my spiritual gift to be a light bearer.   I have no illusions/delusions about what I will say.  I will rely on my personal spirit guide to help me compose these thoughts, but I want to be clear about who I am and what I am not. I am a skeptic at heart.  When I see people on TV or YouTube with purple hair and "witchy" clothing saying all the "right" stuff...I simply don't believe them.  They could be absolutely telling the truth, and I am not here to judge them, but my first instinct is they are frauds who want attention. I've struggled with putting this blog together and writing about spirituality because I don't want to cheapen Spirit.  I