Essays on Spiritual

Spiritual Gifts are gifts that are given to believers by God that enable them to complete the jobs that He has called them to perform. Spiritual gifts differ from the Fruit of the Spirit in that everyone can possesses each Fruit of the Spirit but God gives Spiritual Gifts according to your service in the…

The patient that I interviewed is a 38 year old woman who suffers from Fibromyalgia. She is married and has no children. She has been dealing with this diagnosis for 5 years and receives treatment on a regular basis. She has a strong Christian faith and believes in the power of prayer. She also believes…

The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Learning. Joseph M. Marshall III. Penguin Books. October 2002. 240. The Lakota Way by Joseph M. Marshall III is a reflective and thoughtful depiction of how the Lakota people and their spiritual beliefs can be used as a guiding principle in leading a fulfilling and significant life. Marshall…

A Spiritual Reality             How do you feel when you see flowers growing on the roadside?  To the author, William Wordsworth, in his immortal lyric poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, flowers and all of nature’s richness is a spiritual reality, bearing witness to the beauty and goodness of God.  The poem expresses the…

The doctrine of Karma is a spiritual doctrine based on the theory of cause and effect. Although Karma does not exactly fit the definition of supernatural phenomenon it is a spiritual doctrine based on the philosophy that God is not responsible for the happiness or failure of an individual, rather, we as individuals are solely…

A Martyr’s Victory in a Spiritual SenseBishop Francis X. Ford was a well educated, enormously gentle man, thatwas kicked, beaten, insulted, and surrounded by hatred. All this because of onemans beliefs. He was born in Brooklyn in 1892. He was the founder of theMaryknoll Missionaries and was the first bishop of Kwantung, China. He waskilled…