Caregivers, I sing your praises today and everyday. For you are the ones who offer your loving energy to meet the needs of bodies and souls who experience the pain of living in this world.

 Today's meditation was written by Cathy Self, Senior Vice President for the Baptist Healing Trust.      Agape is a love that is pure and unlimited for every human being without exception. According to Sir John Templeton, all of the world's religions, to varying degrees, teach and assume a priority of love. What scholars have discovered is…

   Like any big contest, the day after any national presidential election can bring strong feelings one way or another. These feelings will depend, for you, on how invested you felt in the victory of any one candidate.    The thing that has concerned me most about this election has been the degree to which…

Mirror theology is the idea that we can reflect back Love’s light into the world. We don’t create Love, we reflect it.

Love is never tested. Love never ends. But, we will be tested everyday on our ability to choose Love’s pathway against the temptation to arm ourselves with the false security that comes from buying guns and hiding.

One of my best friends sent me a card that said that Halloween birthday’s come back to haunt you every year. One day, instead of a cowboy, maybe I’ll be a ghost and come to haunt you, in a good way, with joyful memories of loving care.

It’s a challenge to love when others betray your trust and confidence.

When we recognize and celebrate the divine in someone else, it raises the light in us as well.

Reverence is found in the sense of awe and ritual and gazing on a deeply crimsoned leaf or the deeply lined face of the one looking to us for relief.

One and God make a majority. Frederick Douglass When we unite with Love, we engage all the energy and strength we could ever need. When we are living in Love, our ego needs fall away. Since God is Love, we can, in the 21st century, do like Douglass did in the 19th – engage “a…