During the Holiday season I was invited a few times by friends from different spiritual traditions to celebrate Christmas. In the area where I live there is a tradition of Kirtan and it was the heart of many Christmas get togethers. Kirtan is a form of devotional chanting which comes from ancient India. It exists [...]
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Prayer can be very simple
Posted in Prayer on Dec 31st, 2009
I am not very good at making prayers. I tend to be quite skeptical that saying prayers can really work, so it helps me to think of examples of how prayer has worked. A friend of mine once told me the story of a woman who was witnessing a serious car accident where another person [...]
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