by J Douglas Bottorff | Jan 3, 2016 | Doug Bottorff, J Douglas Bottorff, The Wisdom of Cady, Unity
Click for audio: The Call From Home Hitherto we have turned our heart and efforts toward the external for fulfillment of our desires and for satisfaction, and we have been grievously disappointed. The hunger of everyone for satisfaction is only the cry of the homesick...
by J Douglas Bottorff | Feb 22, 2015 | Doug Bottorff, J Douglas Bottorff, The Spiritual Experience
Click for Audio: Particle, Wave or Both? In spiritual terminology, the process we call learning is the act of consciousness building. There are two ways that we do this. The most common is the conventional learning a skill-set through study and practice, usually a...
by J Douglas Bottorff | Sep 21, 2014 | Doug Bottorff, New Thought Inspiration, Practical Christianity, Spiritual Guidance, The Spiritual Experience
Click for audio: Why Am I Here? Last Sunday, two people raised two different questions that are, in some ways, interwoven. One asked, Why are we here? What is our purpose? and another asked if I would address the issue of reincarnation. At first glance, these...
by J Douglas Bottorff | Sep 7, 2014 | Doug Bottorff, Prayer, Praying for Others
Click for audio: Praying for Others The act of praying for others, also known as intercessory prayer, can be a comforting, strengthening and very powerful practice. When you know others are praying with you in your time of need, your faith is strengthened through...
by J Douglas Bottorff | Aug 31, 2014 | Doug Bottorff, General Inspiration, Spiritual Guidance, The Spiritual Experience, Unity
Click for audio: Misguided Guidance It is not unusual to hear someone complain that an answer they felt God had given them turned out wrong. In one case, after well-laid plans collapsed, I heard a woman ask, “What was God thinking?” I was told of another woman who was...
by J Douglas Bottorff | May 25, 2014 | Doug Bottorff, Practical Christianity, Unity
Click for audio: The Principle of Manifestation “…we must endeavor to impress upon our subjective mind the idea of that which we desire quite apart from any conditions. This separation from the elements of condition implies the elimination of the idea of time,...