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Next week Friday I will be "officially" installed as the Pastor of the Center for Spiritual Living Baltimore. I stated thinking about how I got here. In the past, I've always thought about this Path starting when I was a young adult ... however, this evening driving home, I remembered being in 4th grade in Ramona Convent Catholic Girls School, running out of the classroom crying....

July 11, 2011 or ሐምሌ 4, 2003 (Ethiopian Calendar) It is one thing to be FREE physically and materially, it is another thing to feel FREE and have a FREE tongue to tell the TRUTH. However, the highest form of FREEDOM is SPIRITUAL FREEDOM to reconcile with oneself and God making PEACE with oneself and God only those the near death, the after death experience or the awakened transcend...

My husband, Dick, suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), so when the days get shorter, his anxiety mounts. Until we figured out what was going on, the emotional toll was so crippling that Dick was unable to function normally. It took his doctor several annual cycles to figure out that the cause of Dick’s anxiety, depression and general malaise had no basis in his relationships,...

I spent the a week in Chicago at the International Centers for Spiritual Living Summer Conference. It was fantastic! For me the theme was emergent evolution -- humanity emerging as the authentic loving Self -- a conscious awareness of being Spirit.At the final talk, I was reminded that this was the last summer conference the International Centers for Spiritual Living will have. Next year, it will...

June 15, 2011 or ሰኔ (Sene) 8, 2003 Ethiopian Calendar My dear sister Elizabeth: You said; “I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned." My sister, me chicken or no chicken, I would go ahead and cross the road regardless of what others say about my motive. If they say good great if they say bad, great too because I must be doing...

To my Growing Bolder family and our readers,I have been away to God’s land, Ethiopia (my beloved home) and I am back to the blessed land America my beautiful home. While I was in Ethiopia, on a daily and hourly basis I get to hear the prayer from Ethiopian orthodox churches where I grew up, the prayer from the Mosques, the chants and songs of the evangelicals, the monks and the spirituals...

May 23, 2011 or ግንቦት (Ginbot) 15, 2003 Ethiopian CalendarExcerpt from H.I.M, JFK , MLK; H.I.M (His Imperial Majesty) of Ethiopia “It is the duty of the educated few to fulfill the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many.” http://academicearth.org http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm *** J.F.K (John F. Kennedy)Those...

June 7, 2011 or ግንቦት (Ginbot) 30, 2003 Ethiopian Calendar You are responsible for your own happiness. No one can diminish your self-esteem unless you give them permission to do so. People won’t stay mad at you long if you can say, “I blew it, and I will try to make amends.” When something is troubling you, tell people you trust instead of trying...