We are, each of us, blessed with the power of reason and its natural concomitant, will power. Through reason we make choices for good or ill as they affect our life. And, in accordance with our will, we act on them.
The choices we make as they relate to our day-to-day activities and our physical well-being are apparent to all, a manifestation of outward appearances all to often belying the truth. Be that as it may, attendance to worldly matters pales beside the need to acknowledge and to come to terms with our own oft-neglected spirituality.
If ever we are to know peace within, to be certain of the path we walk, we must consciously quiet the turmoil of the mind to allow the soul to emerge and play its proper role in our life. This involves no less than a choice to be made in accordance with rational thought, while at once exercising our will to act on it. Thus may we come into the presence of God such that our spiritual awareness manifests His goodness; hence, our overall well-being.
G.D. Kilbourn
bwfministry
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Quest for Truth...
IN OUR UNRELENTING QUEST FOR TRUTH...relative to the human condition, we consider the matter of OUR SOUL interacting with a morally spiritual realm in the universe, that is to say, with GOD.
FAITH, no less EXPERIENCE, leads us to know GOD is within and everywhere around us. That GOD IS OUR SOUL, the very essence of life, is known to all who BELIEVE.
The ever-present AURA emanating from each one of us, revealing our true identity, is but the sensory, at times visible, soul: A soul at one with nature.
There can be no doubt that we have the capacity to commune with GOD, with each breath we draw and with our very thought. We have but to call upon our own God-given goodness and to act on that goodness.
DEATH is but the release of the soul, a spiritual renaissance or rebirth; something to HONOUR.
G.D. Kilbourn
bwfaithministry
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FAITH, no less EXPERIENCE, leads us to know GOD is within and everywhere around us. That GOD IS OUR SOUL, the very essence of life, is known to all who BELIEVE.
The ever-present AURA emanating from each one of us, revealing our true identity, is but the sensory, at times visible, soul: A soul at one with nature.
There can be no doubt that we have the capacity to commune with GOD, with each breath we draw and with our very thought. We have but to call upon our own God-given goodness and to act on that goodness.
DEATH is but the release of the soul, a spiritual renaissance or rebirth; something to HONOUR.
G.D. Kilbourn
bwfaithministry
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Thomas A. Dorsey
"I done my best" are at once the soulful and uplifting words of Thomas A. Dorsey uttered shortly before his death at age 94.
Mr. Dorsey was a pioneer of black gospel music, composer of more than 300 blues and gospel songs and co-founder in 1933 of The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses.
From 1924-1930 he was Ma Rainey's piano accompanist and song-writer, touring the Jim Crow South and the Midwest on the Negro T.O.B.A. Circuit, in tent shows and in vaudeville.
In 1930 he formed the Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Songs Music Publishing Company. Recognized as the first to write and publish gospel songs, his most famous, Take My Hand, Precious Lord, was written following the sudden death of his wife and stillborn son.
During his latter years Mr. Dorsey founded and became Choirmaster of the Interfaith Church Choir in St. Louis, Missouri.
Beginning as a blues pianist in honky-tonks, he became a self-made man and a person revered throughout the black church community.
Having in mind the words of Jesus urging us to "Love thy neighbour as thyself" and to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," can each one of us say in all honesty, day in, day out, "I done my best?"
G.D. Kilbourn
bwfaithministry
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Mr. Dorsey was a pioneer of black gospel music, composer of more than 300 blues and gospel songs and co-founder in 1933 of The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses.
From 1924-1930 he was Ma Rainey's piano accompanist and song-writer, touring the Jim Crow South and the Midwest on the Negro T.O.B.A. Circuit, in tent shows and in vaudeville.
In 1930 he formed the Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Songs Music Publishing Company. Recognized as the first to write and publish gospel songs, his most famous, Take My Hand, Precious Lord, was written following the sudden death of his wife and stillborn son.
During his latter years Mr. Dorsey founded and became Choirmaster of the Interfaith Church Choir in St. Louis, Missouri.
Beginning as a blues pianist in honky-tonks, he became a self-made man and a person revered throughout the black church community.
Having in mind the words of Jesus urging us to "Love thy neighbour as thyself" and to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," can each one of us say in all honesty, day in, day out, "I done my best?"
G.D. Kilbourn
bwfaithministry
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Becoming...
BECOMING...'Tis commendable to feed the soul, to enrich our spirituality. What may at the outset appear a lonely, no less a daunting task -- for who among us early learned that God is our soul -- becomes a source of INNER PEACE. When we at once question our PURPOSE and SEEK answers.
Were we, upon awakening each day, to take but a moment to commune with God, to acknowledge His presence, and to ask: What am I Becoming? That is to say: Am I being true to myself? Am I able to accept my own innate goodness and to share it with others?
BECOMING is full of hope, a process of change and, above all, a spiritually transcending experience. With God's grace, it is a never-ending joyful process.
Garry D. Kilbourn
bwfaithministry
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Were we, upon awakening each day, to take but a moment to commune with God, to acknowledge His presence, and to ask: What am I Becoming? That is to say: Am I being true to myself? Am I able to accept my own innate goodness and to share it with others?
BECOMING is full of hope, a process of change and, above all, a spiritually transcending experience. With God's grace, it is a never-ending joyful process.
Garry D. Kilbourn
bwfaithministry
Email blwoodard@shaw.ca
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