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Spark My Muse

Conversations and enriching content to set alight your inner life and our life together

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How Good it is to Center-down

Today, I share a bit about something we need so urgently. Howard Thurman is a spiritual mentor I most cherish. You can do a search on this website and find much more work I've down related to him. Please check it out. ONE MORE THINGA related article I just wrote is a great companion to my audio here. https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/p/where-is-the-treasure-in-the-field?r=388bh I go into the two…

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How rigidity means emotional immaturity

There's a dynamic connection between flexibility and healthy personalities. It took me many years of healing to not be swept into self-hate when I messed up. Here's what helped.

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The world on fire

finding a new despair in the future from the elderly

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Desire, Wanting, Bliss

Here is a excerpt as part of the series I've created for my Spark My Muse YouTube Channel (Here's the link to find the rest: youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse) This part 4 in the series of 7 explores how the nature of desire is a signpost to the infinite. Longing, bliss, desire are more than they appear to be. This series distills the too-often obtuse work of David Bentley Hart from his book The Experience…

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Being, Consciousness, Bliss

What you are about to hear is part two of seven in a series explaining a foundational book by David Bentley Hart. My interest in high theism is strengthened by the fact that you can have a deep faith, be a skeptic, or a confused doubter and still embrace these first principles and ideas about existence. Please enjoy all seven in the series as they roll out this summer at my youtube channel:…

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Softness and Desire: Guest, Robert J. Monson

Today, I give you some excerpts from my live chat conversation with scholar Robert J. Monson. We speak together some about the desert elders, but also about Robert's work at the intersection of Blackness, disability, and softness (among other things) and we get into the topics of lust, sexuality, desire which the church has notoriously gotten wrong. Please find the full replay of our time here…

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Letting Event-based Forms of Church Die

Recording of live event with Cindy S Lee on the desert elders

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Vainglory, Envy, Pride and Creating a Rule of Life

Vainglory, Envy, Pride and Creating a Rule of Life

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Temptations of the Body – 4/12/26

Hello friends, I'm back to share something from the lesson I did at Bethesda EC Church in Reedsville, PA on 4/12/26 and it is the 2nd of four. Some of you may enjoy WATCHING this, and you can try this link: https://youtu.be/YzQE-rGNNpo?si=BsjvHxs1-HoaTjYl At that channel you will also find the 1st lesson from March 29.---UPDATE:Here is the 3rd one from April…

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The finale

The finale of a four part series on consciousness

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Lent Week 1 – (clips)

Coptic Christian Phoebe Farag Mikhail on the first theme of Lent and the Desert Elders

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