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My Tagline:
Promoting Religious Tolerance

My Interests:
Prayer, Meditation, Worship, God, Interfaith issues, Music, Books, Education, Crafts, Holistic living, Yoga, Fitness, Family, Marriage, fasting, interfaith dialogue, energy, massage

My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Books: Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster, "I Have to be Perfect" by Timothy Sanford, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Midnight Children by Salaman Rushdie Authors: Terry Pratchett, C.S. Lewis, Douglas Adams, Madeline L'Engle, Neil Gaiman Music: Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, Petra, DeGarmo and Key, Jars of Clay, dc talk, Michael Card, Steven Curtis Chapman Movies: The Mission, The Matrix, The Dark Crystal, Ever After, The Muppet

Who Inspires Me:
My father is my biggest inspiration, closely followed by C.S. Lewis, Ravi Zacharias, and the missionaries I have worked with and met

My favorite spiritual activities:
meditation and worship

What is your current spiritual mood?:
Blessed

What's your spiritual type?:
Spiritual Straddler - I have one foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality.

About Me

Currently a student at Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego, OR in the Religious Studies program. My desire it to be actively involved in promoting religious tolerance through interfaith dialogue, lectures and seminars about the basic beliefs and histories of the major world religions, and I would like to start a revival of the classical disciplines - meditation, fasting, contemplative prayer and study - in Christianity.

To these ends I am looking for organizations active in the Portland, OR metro area involved in similar activities and building a website where I can show case my own thoughts, experience and ideas on these subjects. I am also wanting to develop a dialogue with others to help my own growth in these areas.

My Basics

Location: Portland, OR, USA

Gender: Female

Occupation: Student

Relationship Status: Married

Faiths: Christian, Evangelical Christian, Born-Again Christian, Progressive Christian, Non-Denominational Christian

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Deep Insight

Posted: Nov 17, 2007 1:21 PM

The following was sent to me, via email, by a woman I took a class with this fall. I think it boldly says what many are publicly afraid... (more)

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C.S.Lewis Group

Evangelical Manifesto

Jim Wallis' "The Great Awakening"

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God's Politics Has Moved! - September 22, 2008 at 12:47 PM

Please change your bookmarks to: www.godspolitics.com and your RSS feeds to: http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?feed=rss2 After two years of a blog partnership between...

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openmind

Thanks for the add sweetheart:) - November 24, 2008 - 02:42 PM

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oceansdaughter

Happy Birthday! - June 21, 2008 - 06:48 AM

Hope you have the happiest of birthdays today shared with friends and family!

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one conciessness 111

January 19, 2008 - 02:38 AM

We are all one being at our core. Science has essentially proven this with the super string theory, and numerous individuals, who have expanded their conciseness/mind in one way or another, have said the same thing. We are all one. Your pain is my pain and my pain is your pain. When you go into a room and you feel anxiety, suffering, or depression, exc. You are actually only feeling somebody else feelings. You were designed in this fashion in order to stay the social, loving, compassionate beings that you are. This is your true nature, and you can only experience happiness and joy when you are acting according to your original great nature. Great people have tried for millenniums to gain happiness in other ways but have failed over and over again. They have looked outside themselves with no return for their search. You are love no matter what illusion you believe to be your true identity at this very moment. Any other illusionary identity than your true one will miss lead your soul into confusion and pain. You are connected to the god of love and so you can only be what you love, but you can be deceived. We need to quit accepting a belief system that says we are not mature enough to run our own world. We need to understand that what we created/creating in society can never be greater than the creators themselves. If God wants us all to have free will then a “god” that delegates to our world would take this away from us. The whole idea is a contradiction. We are accepting a predestinated fate of control and suppression based on an interpretation of writings of a possible future. The more you read the Bible you will see that Prophets had predicted many times to destruction Israel, and yet it still exists. This prophetic message of Revelation like all prophetic messages was a warning for us to change!! This was not there for us to fall into the trap of control and loss of freedom by our Co-creations of this possible future reality!! This is very deceptive, as Satan will deceive the whole world. This deception takes the good-natured beings of Christianity that love mankind and God, and conditions them into a belief system that creates apathy for our world and the direction that it is headed, and is currently. “The problem with not getting involved with politics is we end up being ruled by our inferiors.” Plato. We need a new based on the truth of oneness. Satan’s plan is one of separation of the souls who understand their true nature as a server of God and fellow Man. The more we argue over doctrine, and religion, the more they win, and the more we, as oneness, loose!!! This is a calling to all church’s, faiths, and great souls, young and old, to take the great responsibility within our role in our civilization as a whole. Again the time is short and there is sorrow for those who rejected the words of the prophets in the past. Never forget that God is the God of love and forgiveness and that you have been forgiven for every sin, turn away from deception that causes sin and leads you into death. Remember also that what lies for you in heaven, and the kingdom within, is much greater than any pleasure here on Earth. You are either accepting or rejecting that which you are, LOVE. “Even if you fail in changing the world the intention and will to do so will shine like a jewel inside your soul that will last for eternity.” But don’t be miss lead thinking your salvation is based on works, because it is faith. So with that faith that you possess you can use to create greatness for the earth and all living beings that inhabit it. “You do not need more faith you just got to make sure the small seed of faith that you have is being nurtured and growing.” The God of the living is with you providing life; you just need to perceive it. I love you because you are me. PASS ON IF YOU LIKED

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oceansdaughter

Thanks! - November 14, 2007 - 06:51 PM

Thanks for being my friend. I used to live in Portland almost fifty years ago. Grew up there and loved the ocean and Mt. Hood, and all the other beautiful places, like Multnomah Falls, the Columbia River and the forests.

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