Posts Tagged ‘spiritual’
S+C | Healing with God Part II
Posted by: Shirley Paulson in Podcast on April 2nd, 2009
Episode #20 is a conversation about healing from a faith perspective.
Shirley Paulson, a Christian Science practitioner, and Barbara Zeman, a Roman Catholic, find common ground in the quest for healing. The complexity of healing arises out of the limitations of human language, but the beauty of healing is evident in the closer relationship with God.
While we might be enthusiastic about the spiritual adventure of seeking healing through prayer, we also recognize that the struggle that precipitates the healing often includes the battle with the very thing that resists the healing. Stubbornness is an example. Despite our shortcomings, though, we agree that God or Christ is able to move our thoughts where we need to be in order to welcome the healing adjustment.
People need personal healings, and the whole family of humanity needs healing of injustice, oppression, and economic disruption. We’d love to welcome your thoughts on healing of any kind. Tell us how you’ve experienced healing, or how you heal others. Please scroll down to the “comments” here on the Spirituality and Christianity.com website. Tell us your thoughts or experiences. Thanks!
Some related links:
- Christian Science healing
- Catholic healing prayers
- Beliefnet healing prayer archive
- Healing prayer: online resource for Christian prayer
- Christian Science Sentinel (print version)
S+C | Jesus and miracles
Posted by: Shirley Paulson in Podcast on January 24th, 2009
Episode #16 is Part II of our discussion about Jesus and his ministry. Barbara Zeman and I picked up where we left off last time, exploring the meaning of the extraordinary things Jesus did. Healing diseases, restoring dead people to life, walking on water, and even … the fig tree.
We searched for an understanding of the term “miracle” that doesn’t dismiss the heavenly good within the rest of us who experience the same earth that Jesus did. In my Christian Science practice, we tend to avoid the use of the term “miracle” in reference to Jesus’ works, because it tends to dilute our expectancy of divine power in our own lives. Barbara notes that children had access to the goodness and power Jesus brought about — perhaps especially so because they were children. They are not jaded, and they may anticipate the divine power as natural phenomena.
It became clear to us that the best way to understand those miracles is not through human analysis of a physical event, but rather through the realization of the same divine power within each of us, in all human history. We still have questions about the fig tree.
Listen in, and let us know if you have some ideas to offer. Be sure to leave your comments here at the end of the show notes on Spirituality and Christianity.com.
Here are some links related to our discussion: