Groups

  • Most Inspiring Person of the Year (Your Heroes)
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    Most Inspiring Person of the Year (Your Heroes)
    Status: Member
    Description: At the end of the year Beliefnet has a wonderful feature called the Most Inspiring Person of the Year Award, which celebrates amazing people who've performed brave acts of heroism, fight for an important cause, help others in need, etc. We want to hear your thoughts! You can nominate high-profile celebrities or ordinary people who've done something extraordinary in 2008.
  • Being Ourself
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    Being Ourself
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a group for people who recognize in a profoundly personal way that we are all actually facets of one whole interacting with itself, or more accurately, Ourself. It is a place for peer discussion and exploration as we move through the challenges and insights we encounter while participating in the awakening of ourselves to our common fundamental identity, Ourself. As indivisible aspects of the single, infinitely diverse entity of everything/reality/creation we all have an opportunity and a responsibility to deepen humankind's awareness of Ourself, and to enrich our language with new terminology/ideas to more accurately portray that which truly is. We want to support each other as we discover wholeness while living in a society that defines everything (including God) as separate when in fact the creator and creation (including all people, animals, plants, minerals, and seen and unseen forces of spirit) are not in any actual way separate. So don't be shy... your vantage point of the whole is completely unique, and is just as valid and important as anybody elses. Enlightenment is the recognition of the wholeness, which by its very all-inclusive nature negates the validity of any kind of exclusive spiritual authority or guru. To allow ourselves to truly feel and be aware of ourselves as part of the great wholeness we need to stop putting others on a pedestal as a way of avoiding being accountable for shining our own light. Let's get the orchestra of the wholeness playing diversely, brilliantly, and powerfully enough to wake up humankind from the illusion of separateness. We can only accomplish this as a community of distinct voices and insights singing out in the harmony of the whole, and not by silencing our own special voice because we have decided some other "enlightened" teacher has a monopoly on authenticity! So sing out your insights, your questions... cry out your pains and frustrations... and love your neighbor as yourself because in truth they are; we are all precious dimensions of one whole. Let's respectfully, gently, and lovingly be Ourself together.
  • Beyond Blue
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    Beyond Blue
    Category: Support Group
    Status: Member
    Description: This group serves as an extension of the popular "Beyond Blue" blog (http://www.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/) and will provide an opportunity for readers to get to know each other better. My hope is that, like my blog, it will become a supportive network for those suffering from depression or any other mental illness.
  • Children of the Divine Mercy
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    Children of the Divine Mercy
    Status: Member
    Description: "The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves us — all of us. And, he wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy." Jesus' Call to Mercy: "I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it. I am giving you three ways of exercising mercy toward your neighbor: the first — by deed, the second — by word, the third — by prayer. In these three degrees is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays reverence to My mercy. Many souls ... are often worried because they do not have the material means with which to carry out an act of mercy. Yet spiritual mercy, which requires neither permissions nor storehouses, is much more meritorious and is within the grasp of every soul. If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy" (1317). "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but have life everlasting. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to be its savior." John 3:13
  • From Meds to Moodswings...
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    From Meds to Moodswings...
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a depression group for all! From meds to moodswings if you need to talk heres the place. Please feel free to talk openly. I ask only one thing, please no judgements here. This is a support group.
  • God's Vision of World Peace
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    God's Vision of World Peace
    Status: Member
    Description: We all want to be at peace, to live in peace and to see our loved ones living peaceful lives as well. We want to see the hectic world around us at peace. We know that God holds a vision of peace for each of us and for the world, and that he wants us to be living peaceful lives and to be loving towards one another. God holds the gifts of true and lasting peace. It is primarily through prayer and selfless acts of kindness, compassion, generosity and charity that God’s vision for our lives unfolds. Through prayer God gives unconditionally of his ocean of grace, and our hearts are set at peace. We each hold peace in our hearts. We call this peace the spirit, the breath of God, our life. God transforms our hearts and minds into beacons of serene joyous light. God’s light radiates to everyone we encounter, everyone we touch, everyone in the world we pray for. By re-dedicating our lives to God in word and action God is enthroned in our hearts. Praying to God for peace, God bestows his grace, he takes away our pain, grief, sadness, distress, and darkness, and he gives us refuge, protection, healing and sets our hearts at peace. As a prayer group committed to seeing God’s vision of peace established in the world, we can join our hearts together in prayer, in devotion, in love. We can make a difference. We can change the world !
  • Positive Faith Group
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    Positive Faith Group
    Status: Member
    Description: Positive thinking is important. The Bible encourages us to think positively in the light of all that God has done for us, and in the light of His promises to us. This group is for Christians to encourage each other by sharing positive Scripture references, tesimonies and mutual advice.
  • Music Saves Souls
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    Music Saves Souls
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a group devoted to sharing and discussing their favorite spiritual music. The music can be anything you find inspirational, religious or moving. Post some of your favorite music to the audio area and let us know it's there. Be sure that the music is not copyrighted. If you are a musician, please share your songs with us. We would love to listen and discuss. Music is really a savior.
  • Guardian Angels
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    Guardian Angels
    Category: Angels
    Status: Member
    Description: The full purpose of members of this group, besides visiting others pages and making persons day by doing random acts of kindness-ie.posting nice comments on a journal, email or blog when you see the need is that we members can also share-exchange the results of these as a group, perhaps even offering eachother helpful suggestions. That is the purpose of this group and also to be open to any and all wonderful results of the same.