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Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. While it focuses on Christian teaching, I hope persons of varied faiths will find inspiration here. Indeed, "God" can be whatever image helps us trust in the Sacred, by whatever means Grace touches us each. Please share this ministry with others, and please return soon. There is a new offering daily. And to be placed on the daily OneLife email list, to request notifications of new writings or submit prayer requests, write to briankwilcox@yahoo.com .
Blessings,
Brian Kenneth Wilcox MDiv, MFT, PhD
Interspiritual Pastor-Teacher, Author, Workshop Leader, Spiritual Counselor, and Chaplain.
You are invited to join Brian at his fellowship group on Facebook. The group is called OneLife Ministries – An Interspiritual Contemplative Fellowship. Hope to see you there. Blessings.
SCRIPTURE
Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, be persistent in prayer.
*Romans 12.12
We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, who is the initiator and perfecter of our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he has honor in intimacy and authority with God.
*Hebrews 12.2
SPIRITUAL TEACHING
Horizon opens to
Horizon, endlessly,
Vistas still wait
Your eyes
To see.
The body
Is an ocean
Swarming with graces
Mind cannot fathom.
You receive
By Gift,
You lose
By the same
To enjoy,
Again.
There's a time
To linger by a grave
A time to dare
Again.
A lone wolf
Howls in the night
For darkness calls forth
Its mastery.
Every scar
Says, “You
Are courageous,
For you have chosen
To live.”
Tears flowing
Hold within
The promise of
Better times.
The poverty of loss
Opens to riches
Your past would not
Let you see.
Your heart has been
Carved to feel the truth
And follow your longings,
By the sufferings you endured
And now give thanks for.
Our lives
Chalices
Our hearts
Sanctuaries
Brief the pleasures
Of time, Sweet the intimations
They bear of
Eternity.
However, do not withhold
Your lips from the cusp of matter
Nor close your heart to dreams
You have held dear, but have
led to disappointment, for
those seemingly frustrated
hopes form the stairway
you have built, from
laughter and tears,
to see those dreams,
still, come true.
Indeed,
It's in loss
That your faith
In love is tested,
And once tested
Love will give itself
And its treasures
To you.
The Moon
Poured itself out
In the night;
At dawn, the Sun
Shaped your
Form.
*Brian Kenneth Wilcox, “Horizons Endlessly”
© OneLife Ministries. Jan 9, 2010.
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life and with his two dogs, Bandit Ty and St. Francis. While within the Christian path, he is an ecumenical-interspiritual teacher, author, and chaplain. He is Senior Chaplain for the Charlotte County Jail, Punta Gorda, FL.
*Brian welcomes responses to his writings at briankwilcox@yahoo.com . Also, Brian is on Facebook: search Brian Kenneth Wilcox.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
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